history has its eyes on you @jfkassassination - Tumblr Blog

May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963

#john f kennedy #JFK #commemorative post

Where are they taking Lee? Parkland. | PARKLAND (2013) “At the suggestion of a Parkland doctor who felt that it would be tantamount to sacrilege to treat Oswald in Trauma Room One, Oswald is rushed into Trauma Room Two, across the hall from where President Kennedy had been treated. The irony is not lost on some that every effort is now being made to save the life of someone who virtually everyone believes extinguished the life of President Kennedy just two days earlier.” – PARKLAND by VINCENT BUGLIOSI

#misc: movies and docs

kennedyaesthetic

“When we think of him, he is without a hat, standing in the wind and the weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to confront and to enjoy the cold and the wind of these times, whether the winds of nature or the winds of political circumstance and national danger. He died of exposure, but in a way that he would have settled for – in the line of duty, and with his friends and enemies all around, supporting him and shooting at him. It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.”

- E. B. White, The New Yorker, November 30, 1963

#john f kennedy #jfk

napoleon--bonaparte

#lee harvey oswald

psychopathicneighbor-deactivate

The mugshot of Lee Harvey Oswald originally dated November 23, 1963.

#lee harvey oswald #lho: the final hours

replicated-archive

#misc: evidence

Do you know what happened to leftgl0ve/oswaldskovich? :(

No, I’m sorry, I have no idea. =/ It has been a while since I’ve been active myself, so I’ve lost a lot of touch with the goings-on here. A lot of us bloggers associated with true crime had their accounts terminated by staff. It’s possible that’s the case for this blogger as well. Hopefully they’re doing okay otherwise!

#Anonymous

catchymemes

#lol #Conspiracy Theories #imagine though!

hi! I hope you’re doing well. I followed your Columbine blog & used to ask you questions on there all the time haha. I don’t know a lot about the jfk assassination apart from studying it in school. I know the route that jfk’s car would take (during the procession/parade) was published — do you know what date it was published / how far in advance of his visit? Thank you 💕

Hi! I’m doing quite well, thank you. Just a bit busy -- I’m back to working fulltime hours and that unfortunately doesn’t give me a whole lot of free time during the week. ^^ I’m happy to hear from you and hope you’re doing fine as well!

I think most younger people know of the assassination through school or through seeing something about it on TV, yeah, so that doesn’t surprise me! The exact schedule for the motorcade was indeed published beforehand. The Secret Service, the local host committee, and a few others selected the route JFK would take through Dallas and worked together over the course of a few days in order to figure out which was the best one that worked within their time constraints. They finalised the itinerary on November 18.

The Dallas-Times Herald first published the possible site for the luncheon on November 15. A day later, they reported the possible route the President would take to get to this site. On November 19, they published the full and definitive version. The Morning News also reported similar things, including the full route, in those days and also stated on the morning of the visit that the motorcade would slow down so that crowds would be able to get a good look at the President.

All of that would give his assassin a window of 3 days of definitive planning, if we’re not assuming a conspiracy of sorts, and a window of a week if we’re talking general plans for the assassination.

Now it was nearly 2 o’clock and we got up from the table and settled ourselves in front of a radio. Commandant Vallero, his physician, aide-de-camp, and intimate friend, was easily able to get the broadcasts from the NBC network in Miami. As the news came in, Vallero would translate it for Fidel: Kennedy wounded in the head; pursuit of the assassin; murder of a policeman; finally the fatal announcement: President Kennedy is dead. Then Fidel stood up and said to me: “Everything is changed. Everything is going to change. The United States occupies such a position in world affairs that the death of a President of that country affects millions of people in every corner of the globe. The cold war, relations with Russia, Latin America, Cuba, the Negro question… all will have to be rethought. I’ll tell you one thing: at least Kennedy was an enemy to whom we had become accustomed. This is a serious matter, an extremely serious matter.”

I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated

#JFK assassination #Fidel Castro

leftgl0ve

‘’The more I studied him, the more I came to know him. Oswald’s character became more and more defined for me. He had great political ideas, he wrote long passages about ways society should be designed. He was a futurist, utopian to a degree. I think what he believed was that the route to power was not close as far as he was concerned . So talking to conspirators or not, Oswald came to the conclusion that he could bring this off, that he could commit this crime, that he could yet be a very very powerful man and that was worth it because he was living a miserable life.Lee knew he had this opportunity ,that Kennedy was gonna drive by the Texas School Book Depository . One can only imagine the terror ,excitement and inspiration that set on him when he knew that he could do it, that it was possible to do it . Whether or not a conspiracy had been attempted that day I’m perfectly willing to accept. As a conspiratorialist I wanted it to be a conspiracy. But the conclusions I came to were for me irrational ones. Because Oswald had a motive for doing it, because he was capable of doing it, because he wanted to do it.’’

- Norman Mailer ,novelist and conspiratorialist

#lee harvey oswald

are there any good reliable books on Jacky and JFK that you'd recommend? I know there are so many conspiracies about them, and you seem like you'd know which books are filled with actual facts. <3

Most certainly! I compiled a shortlist of recs that mostly centre around the lives of JFK and Jackie, though I also included a book with letters written to Jackie post-assassination as well as a book about the women in the Kennedy family. I also added one book about the investigation into the assassination into the mix, because it’s one of my absolute favourites on the subject and remarkably void of the usual conspiracies. Most of the books cited below are based on interviews, journals/letters, first-hand accounts, etc., so I think they are a healthy mix of facts and opinions overall!

Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations On Life With John F. Kennedy

Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir

America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation

The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family

Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy

JFK’s Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and The Emergence of a Great President

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

#misc: research and books