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Offline Richard Smith

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Re: Umbrella Man: Suspicious
« Reply #56 on: July 30, 2022, 04:18:04 PM »
Thank you...so you too think it's what the assassins thought is what is relevant.....

No.

Offline Jerry Freeman

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« Reply #57 on: July 30, 2022, 04:33:51 PM »

The umbrella became a "lightening-rod for critics of appeasement" and "morphed from useful trademark into an embarrassing symbol of political weakness and pusillanimity."
The majority of Dallas County back then was Republican. There were John Birch Society guys Minute Men..Klan...what have you... Guys with hand bills that said Wanted for Treason with Kennedy's picture all over town that day.
With this so called "lightning rod" stuff being portrayed...there then should have been hundreds or even thousands of umbrellas along the parade right?

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Re: Umbrella Man: Suspicious
« Reply #58 on: July 30, 2022, 04:40:38 PM »
The majority of Dallas County back then was Republican. There were John Birch Society guys Minute Men..Klan...what have you... Guys with hand bills that said Wanted for Treason with Kennedy's picture all over town that day.
With this so called "lightning rod" stuff being portrayed...there then should have been hundreds or even thousands of umbrellas along the parade right?

False premise. Texas and most of the South in the 1960s were governed by Democrats.  JFK won Texas in 1960.  Of course, LBJ and John Connally were Dems.  It was the handful of Southern Dems who held up Civil Rights legislation fot almost 100 years.

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Re: Umbrella Man: Suspicious
« Reply #59 on: July 30, 2022, 05:27:13 PM »
False premise. Texas and most of the South in the 1960s were governed by Democrats.  JFK won Texas in 1960.  Of course, LBJ and John Connally were Dems.  It was the handful of Southern Dems who held up Civil Rights legislation fot almost 100 years.

50.5 -48.5 was the tally for JFK in 1960. Not exactly a ringing endorsement for JFK with a VP from Texas winning by 2 points.

Offline Dan O'meara

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Re: Umbrella Man: Suspicious
« Reply #60 on: July 30, 2022, 05:36:56 PM »
The majority of Dallas County back then was Republican. There were John Birch Society guys Minute Men..Klan...what have you... Guys with hand bills that said Wanted for Treason with Kennedy's picture all over town that day.
With this so called "lightning rod" stuff being portrayed...there then should have been hundreds or even thousands of umbrellas along the parade right?

This is actually a really good point.
There's a lot of faces in the crowd who don't seem particularly happy to see JFK. If the umbrella thing was so well known why was there only the one.
And why is it that the only man with an umbrella is fabricating his HSCA testimony? If that doesn't make the Umbrella Man suspicious I don't know what does.
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Offline Dan O'meara

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Re: Umbrella Man: Suspicious
« Reply #61 on: July 30, 2022, 05:40:34 PM »
False premise. Texas and most of the South in the 1960s were governed by Democrats.  JFK won Texas in 1960.  Of course, LBJ and John Connally were Dems.  It was the handful of Southern Dems who held up Civil Rights legislation fot almost 100 years.

The idea that the "City of Hate" didn't have it's fair share of rabid Republicans is a non-starter.

Offline Jerry Freeman

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Re: Umbrella Man: Suspicious
« Reply #62 on: July 30, 2022, 05:41:58 PM »
False premise. Texas and most of the South in the 1960s were governed by Democrats.  JFK won Texas in 1960.  Of course, LBJ and John Connally were Dems.  It was the handful of Southern Dems who held up Civil Rights legislation fot almost 100 years.
If my premise.....
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The majority of Dallas County back then was Republican.
is false then how come I can prove what I had claimed? I am well aware that JFK won in Texas so why all your gaslighting?
 
Wiki shows 1960 election by Texas county...see the big red one in the northeast? = Dallas County....Nixon was over 62% just like I reported.
Time to learn how to absorb the facts. 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Texas