Showing posts with label Kennedy-Robert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kennedy-Robert. Show all posts

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Interesting history tidbits








It makes me think of the fact that we only recently learned that a secret deal was made with Spiro Agnew that if he would step down from his role as Vice President, he wouldn't be tried for receiving bribes in his White House office, which had been happening all along.

Who knows what people in the future will learn about what's happening today?  A shame we don't get to know in real time.

Check out that December 2018 article on Agnew.  It compares his case with Trump.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Beto O'Rourke

I just found out his full name is Robert Francis O'Rourke.  I find that very interesting, because he has a definite Robert Francis (Bobby) Kennedy look.

    

  




...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

RIP, Bobby Kennedy

Some years ago when I was getting my MS at UC-Davis, the subject of Bobby Kennedy came up, and I said to my major professor that I thought our last best hope for this country died with RFK.  He kind of growled and said something negative about that whole wealthy and perhaps mob-connected Kennedy family.  I couldn't disagree with what he said, but I'd seen footage of Bobby Kennedy going into the deepest dens of poverty and prejudice in the US South, and it struck me that he was a man whose eyes were being opened.  I believe that changed him, I said. And I still believe it, and I still believe he was this country's last best hope.

Today is the anniversary of Bobby Kennedy's murder.  And I'd like to recommend to you a Netflix documentary series that doesn't whitewash him or lionize him, but it shows the man, and the change in him I believe is evident in the video clips the series offers.   

I'm sorry they killed Jack Kennedy, and I'll still sometimes cry when I see footage of the killing, but I'm not a die-hard JFK fan.  I think what my major professor said about the Kennedys was probably unarguable as far as JFK was concerned.  And certainly where Ted Kennedy was concerned.  But I think there was a rare soul in their brother.

I resent the hell out of whoever/whatever forces killed Bobby Kennedy.



Thursday, August 1, 2013

Like a Circle in a Spyral

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever spinning reel

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of it's own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone

--Alan and Marilyn Bergman
March 18, 2013: "I call on President Obama – Roger Noriega, Otto Reich, officials at the Pentagon and at the CIA are behind a plan to assassinate the right-wing presidential candidate to create chaos," Maduro said in a TV interview broadcast on Sunday.

The acting president first mentioned the alleged plot to kill his rival, Henrique Capriles, last week. Former Bush administration diplomats Noriega and Reich both dismissed the claim as defamatory and untrue.

  RT
It would be hard to defame the US, seeing as how the CIA has been intervening all around the globe for decades in the politics of other nations, including kidnapping, assassinations and assassination attempts.
August 1, 2013: Venezuelan officials warned of an alleged plot to assassinate the country’s President and launch a paramilitary invasion of the country. A former CIA agent, Cuban exiles living in the US and Latin American leaders were fingered in the conspiracy.

  RT
Well, that sounds a little far-fetched unless you remember the Bay of Pigs.
The suspected plot to overthrow the government in Caracas was allegedly funded by Cuban exiles living in Miami, the head of the Venezuela’s parliament [and former vice president to Hugo Chavez] Diosdado Cabello told legislators on Wednesday. They raised some $2.5 million and recruited about 400 mercenaries, who would enter Venezuela’s Zulia state from Columbia as part of the plan.
And, Fox News reporter James Rosen is at it again – asking for trouble. Here are excerpts from a July 25 report of his:
The [1962] initiative, code named "Operation Mongoose," drew on the brainpower and energies of the U.S. government's most senior officials and ranged from balloon drops of anti-Castro pamphlets and cartoons to covert sabotage of Cuban industry and infrastructure. In time, it would even include active plotting to assassinate the Cuban dictator, with the Central Intelligence Agency clandestinely enlisting the aid of the era's reigning Mafia chieftains.
But the row with Kruschev over missiles in Cuba caused a change in plans.
"It was agreed that all plans for dispatch [of saboteurs] should be suspended," declared a Top Secret memorandum of the session, adding that "instructions were issued during the course of the meeting designed to recall the three teams already on the way" to Cuba. "No major acts of sabotage should be undertaken at this time."

[...]

These deliberations were among the revelations tucked away in some 7,500 pages of files amassed by the younger Kennedy and withheld from public view until now. The unsealing of RFK's confidential files on Wednesday, a half-century after the events they chronicled, drew a handful of researchers and historians to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.

While an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 pages of RFK's files remain classified -- the documents released by the library were peppered with redactions and withdrawn items -- those that were unsealed provided fresh insight into the extraordinary influence that their owner wielded in the Kennedy White House.
You'd think there'd be more than a "handful" of researchers interested in the RFK files.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.