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Post by Karen on Feb 15, 2013 18:24:29 GMT
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Post by raspberrybullets on Feb 15, 2013 21:14:08 GMT
Did I understand it correctly that the same day as John F Kennedy was shot, the new president took oath with Jackie Kennedy there? Seems a strange thing.
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Post by Kye on Feb 15, 2013 21:20:33 GMT
The world in 1963? Cute.
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Post by Karen on Feb 16, 2013 15:11:12 GMT
Did I understand it correctly that the same day as John F Kennedy was shot, the new president took oath with Jackie Kennedy there? Seems a strange thing. Yes, on the airplane carrying Kennedy's body back from Dallas to Washington. It's an iconic photo, particularly because of the look of grief on Jackie's face. The swearing-in ceremony administered by Judge Hughes in an Air Force One conference room represented the first time that a woman administered the presidential oath of office as well as the only time it was conducted on an airplane.
The famous photograph of the inauguration was taken by Cecil Stoughton, John F. Kennedy's official photographer. On Stoughton's suggestion Johnson was flanked by his wife and Jacqueline Kennedy, facing slightly away from the camera so that bloodstains on her pink Chanel suit would not be visible. This country has an immediate succession plan so that there is always a President. Lyndon Johnson was the Vice-President at the time; the whole point of that office is that you are "a heartbeat away from the presidency" and can take over if the president is incapacitated or dies (or resigns, like Nixon), so that the country is never without a leader who can make important decisions should the need arise. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession |
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Post by Karen on Feb 16, 2013 15:11:38 GMT
Yeah, I know it's mostly the US, but there are pictures of other countries in there as well.  |
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Post by raspberrybullets on Feb 16, 2013 20:17:02 GMT
Ah that would explain it. I can fully understand swearing in a new president immediately, but was surprised that Kennedy's wife would be there on the very day he died. I notice also that the other countries shown are still showing something US related.  |
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Post by Karen on Feb 16, 2013 23:03:07 GMT
but was surprised that Kennedy's wife would be there on the very day he died. She was with him in the car in Dallas when he was assassinated. If you haven't seen it, look on YouTube for the Zapruder film (but warning: the closeup versions are very gruesome). |
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Post by jayme on Feb 17, 2013 4:18:25 GMT
Right. Because the US made the Bali and Iceland volcanoes erupt, the Ba'ath party coup in Iraq, Jacques Cousteau, Soviet cosmonauts, portable Japanese televisions, and of course, The Beatles' concert in Sweden.
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Post by Alvamiga on Feb 17, 2013 9:56:08 GMT
...and they told me the conspiracy theory was just a conspiracy theory!!!!  |
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Post by Karen on Feb 17, 2013 14:33:20 GMT
...and they told me the conspiracy theory was just a conspiracy theory!!!! If you watch the film in close-up, it's very clear (to me, anyway) that the second shot came from the front. Oswald did not act alone, either in the planning or the execution, so to speak. And Woody Allen agrees with me. |
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Post by tangent on Feb 17, 2013 16:34:39 GMT
This must be an American thing.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2013 17:59:18 GMT
The photos are interesting, just a few more photos of "the world" would have been nice.
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Post by Moose on Feb 18, 2013 21:16:23 GMT
I have seen that picture of Jackie Kennedy at the swearing in before and thought myself how strange it must have seemed to her, a few short hours since her husband was alive
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Post by Moose on Feb 18, 2013 21:24:03 GMT
am trying and failing to get the video to load on youtube .. I've seen it before but I'd be interested to see where the second shot actually did come from. Connection is not cooperating tho
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 18, 2013 21:45:12 GMT
The photos are interesting, just a few more photos of "the world" would have been nice. Yeah, pix from Azerbaijan, Sulawesi, Burkina Faso, and from along the banks of the Mambezi and the shore of the Sea of Okhotsk from back in 1963 would be so much more interesting. I'm really cheezed that they didn't have any entrely meaningless pix. |
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Post by Moose on Feb 18, 2013 23:56:35 GMT
Oh the sarcasm *rolls around in agony*
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