Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Assassination of JFK

"60 Minutes" takes a look back at the events surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Also, we take an inside look at how the Secret Service protects our leaders today, including a rare tour of the mock town where agents are trained to deal with assassination attempts. Plus, interviews with three people in JFK's motorcade on November 22, 1963: former Texas Governor John Connally, his wife Nellie and former Secret Service Agent Clint Hill.

The Assassination of JFK
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1
These days will always be very vivid and never forgotten.
Posted by natebole24 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 5:11 PM ET
2
Most American loved President Kenendy and that Kennedy Family seems to have been our Favorite American Family...and sometimes I think they still are. We now need a president like that who really loves and defends America. We can only hope for another president of such calibre and, education and cultured, and he also had a firm standard in all of his actions, and always for the American People, he really cared. Theresa J. Steed
Posted by quechick007 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 5:13 PM ET
3
I think the Mafia had something to do with it. They helped along with Frank Sinatra get Kennedy elected to the white house with lots of mafia money on the pretense that Kennedy would do somthing about the pressure being put on the mafia regarding organized crime. Once in the white house Kennedy turned his back on Frank Sinatra and the Mafia. Organized crime was turned upside by Attorney General Robert Kennedy. Next thing you knew they were both dead. sounds like the mafia to me.
Posted by toby20190 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 6:08 PM ET
4
JFK was indeed a slice of americana that we have not seen really since.
Posted by rv_126 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 6:25 PM ET
5
Why won't 60 minutes mention the bullet through the windshield of the car? That is PROOF of a second shooter, and thus a conspiracy.
Posted by noto907 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 8:17 PM ET
6
So sad that the incredibly paranoid conspiracy theorists just can't believe that one disturbed man can change the course of history. They are such a joke with their "evidence" , much of it simply made up. They've made one of our countries great tragedies a circus of the confused and neurotic. Read 'Case Closed' by Gerald Posner. It really is people. Then go see a good psychiatrist .You need one.
Posted by dobent4 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 8:39 PM ET
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dobent4, you conveniently fail to refute evidence that destroys the official coverup, such as the bullet through the windshield of jfk's limo. funny how you won't (can't) respond to that =) now, who needs a "psychiatrist"?
Posted by noto907 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 8:55 PM ET
8
Heard it all. Case Closed.
Posted by dobent4 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 9:36 PM ET
9
dobent4 what you won't face and really gets at the core is that the government was involved....you don't want to believe it but it is there...even Hoover knew about the threats....who would have such power for the President to be assasinated and then lay this Warren Report(fiction) as the answer to what happned?....yes the Mafia and govt....get a clue
Posted by luvslife51 on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 9:38 PM ET
10
More than 40 years passed...the memory of that day does not fade..
Posted by tonnubichngoc@sbcglobal.net on Wed, Nov 21, 2007 9:38 PM ET

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