09-07-2012, 10:39 AM
Greg, thank you for Billy Joel's masterful capsule of time.
I used my brother's wind-up cap-shooting burp gun to take out Soviet tanks in Budapest, and Tom and Chuck and Mike and I set out to dig a fallout shelter in Chuck's back yard.
Dr. Fred Schwartz brought his Christian Anti-Communist Crusade to my high school auditorium, and there was a pall over my grandparent's dining room when the wood floor radio announced the downing and capture of Francis Gary Powers.
My fraternity brother and friend's father co-wrote Fail-Safe. What a tragedy. Not the black comedy of Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, or the hopelessness of Alas, Babylon.
The demonization of Oswald was complete, immediate, obviously arising out of Angleton's manipulation of the file, and the imposture of Mexico City.
Donald Gibson suggests it was Dean Acheson who prompted the commission. Acheson's daughter was married to William Bundy. William and McGeorge were likely Dulles operatives.
Kennedy is blown away
What is left for me to say
Just that he was in the way
So they put in LBJ
David's left to sing the song
Can't we all just get along
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I used my brother's wind-up cap-shooting burp gun to take out Soviet tanks in Budapest, and Tom and Chuck and Mike and I set out to dig a fallout shelter in Chuck's back yard.
Dr. Fred Schwartz brought his Christian Anti-Communist Crusade to my high school auditorium, and there was a pall over my grandparent's dining room when the wood floor radio announced the downing and capture of Francis Gary Powers.
My fraternity brother and friend's father co-wrote Fail-Safe. What a tragedy. Not the black comedy of Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, or the hopelessness of Alas, Babylon.
The demonization of Oswald was complete, immediate, obviously arising out of Angleton's manipulation of the file, and the imposture of Mexico City.
Donald Gibson suggests it was Dean Acheson who prompted the commission. Acheson's daughter was married to William Bundy. William and McGeorge were likely Dulles operatives.
Kennedy is blown away
What is left for me to say
Just that he was in the way
So they put in LBJ
David's left to sing the song
Can't we all just get along
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