Bothered by the JFK assasination

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JFK was murdered 7 years before I was born. I saw a video about his death and the coverup yesterday and it bothered me immensely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we3vEvOhKR0

Yet, I have no vested interest in what occurred years before I had any say in anything in the world. None of it was my fault.

I was thinking that I was just a young toddler when the Vietnam war was raging, how dare I be a happy and content little kid when disaster and genocide was occuring half a world away?? How dare I be blissfully unaware of it as an infant?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Y4Re7MsUA

I worry about 'What if' about the events of WWI & WWII , both of which occured long before my parents were born.

I know my thinking is wrong somehow? Is my obsession with history and news just an escape from dealing with the issues in my own life?

Anyone else feel similar?

However, you should remember the words of Benjamin Disraeli: "Those who don't study history are DOOMED to repeat it!"

Actually, it's ...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- George Santayana‎ (1863 to 1952)

Oops. Thanks for the correction.

The Kennedy assassination is fascinating. It is like a conspiracy theorist's wet dream.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the Kennedy assassination is the number of witnesses who subsequently died in suspicious circumstances

http://www.assassinationresearch.com/v1n2/deaths.html

What's even more amazing is how many holes can be seen through every conspiricist's pet "theory" on the JFK assassination!

< Link to Dave Perry's JFK Assassination Pages >

This thread should be moved to PP&R.

Do you believe the "single bullet theory"?

I tend to think there wasn't a conspiracy, for the following reasons:
For one thing, the Single Bullet Theory has been scientifically proven. Connolly's position in the limo was such that the bullet didn't have to weave back and forth, it went in a straight line. Also, if you were going to conspire to kill someone, would you do it this way? Think about it: You want Oswald to take the blame, but you have a second gunman, ahead of the limo. And the bullet on the stretcher, that looked "pristine." If you planted it, why plant one that looks pristine? And if Ruby killed Oswald to silence him, why did he do it AFTER Oswald had been interviewed on live national television? It's kind of like the moon landing. If that was faked, would people who were literally rocket scientists make all those dumb mistakes, like the flag "waving" in the breeze?

I think that the bullet would have lost significant velocity after the first entry/exit. It seems likely to me that that there was at least one other shooter. And I am astounded that the president's brain was "lost"
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=3 ... 93,3354953

To the OP I'm sorry you feel like that. I often feel upset about things far out of my reach.

To the others. IF it is a conspiracy then you will probably never get confirmation it is, or what really happened? so why waste time on it? and if it is a really big one and someone figures it out they will probably die as well. The government is scary powerful, just let sleeping dogs lie, because all you are doing is working yourselves up over something you will never be able to figure out.

Getting way off topic here.

This thread is about the OP's feelings, not a discussion of the events to which he refers or a discussion of conspiracy theories.
If he wants to make it a discussion more suited to PPR I'm sure he will but until then, please address his stated reason for creating it - so far, only one member has done that.

I was about to post about something else, thanks for the re-direction.
as a conspiracy theorist I hate the theorists that take things too far, with that said reading and watching events from are past can make one feel like their apart of true evil. people like to think that we are as good as a cuddly teddy bear, but the hard truth is that all BIG nations have done some pretty horrible things. I think the best thing to do is to be aware of the past and mindful of the present, teach people(and yourself) that if we give our qov. a free pass, they will use it in a very bad why. power is infact intoxicating.

I'm also bothered by the JFK assassination, because I had a feeling that the same thing is going to happen to Obama. The JFK assassination happened 11 years before I was born. I'm also very bothered by the Holocaust that happened in the 30s and 40s, because of what happened to the blacks, Jews, and the disabled. Some pretty bad things happened to people with disabilities in the Early 20th Century and unfortunately, the legacy lives on. I have fears that the same thing can start to happen in America within the next few years, because North American society craves perfection.