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Octafish

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19. You are most welcome, TSJ. Please check out Mr. Morrow's contribution at Spartacus Schoolnet...

Reply to T S Justly (Reply #15)

Wed Feb 1, 2012, 02:26 PM

Feb 2012

http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=b508b3d0ef69b7bac12c6e7ff252fa1b&showtopic=10724&st=60

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"At a Georgetown dinner party recently, the wife of a leading senator sat next to Gen. Curtis LeMay, chief of staff of the Air Force. He told her a nuclear war was inevitable. It would begin in December and be all over by the first of the year. In that interval, every major American city -- Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles -- would be reduced to rubble. Similarly, the principal cities of the Soviet Union would be destroyed. The lady, as she tells it, asked if there were any place where she could take her children and grandchildren to safety; the general would, of course, at the first alert be inside the top-secret underground hideout near Washington from which the retaliatory strike would be directed. He told her that certain unpopulated areas in the far west would be safest." --Marquis Childs, nationally syndicated columnist, Washington Post, 19 July 1961

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Chilling tape from Air Force One on day JFK shot just released. [View all] Lint Head Jan 2012 OP

Thank you for the heads-up, Lint Head! Octafish Jan 2012 #1

Nice article. I read that LBJ was in the bathroom a lot. He held meetings while sitting on the john. Lint Head Jan 2012 #2

The CBS report on LeMay's whereabouts have given me a sense of vertigo... Octafish Jan 2012 #4

Thanks...Do you know of any good books on the House Select Committee on Assassinations? deutsey Jan 2012 #9

Gaeton Fonzi's 'The Last Investigation' Octafish Jan 2012 #10

Checking out some of his writings there deutsey Jan 2012 #13

Gaeton Fonzi's "The Last Investigation" is probably the best book on the HSCA. RandomKoolzip Jan 2012 #11

Thanks to both of you! deutsey Jan 2012 #12

Much of the tactical planning probably occured at "Volcano" - thanks for posting this. (nt) T S Justly Jan 2012 #15

You are most welcome, TSJ. Please check out Mr. Morrow's contribution at Spartacus Schoolnet... Octafish Feb 2012 #19

Lemay was in the thick of it. Thanks! (nt) T S Justly Feb 2012 #20

More fodder for the conspiracy theorists, I imagine. MineralMan Jan 2012 #3

43 minutes of tape were withheld for some reason. Octafish Jan 2012 #5

This is what CNN said when they reported the tapes had been released. Lint Head Jan 2012 #7

Gosh, I can't imagine why the conspiracy theorists MineralMan Jan 2012 #8

Everyone who cares about Democracy should be interested in this. Octafish Jan 2012 #14

The thing is that the JFK assassination is so overloaded MineralMan Jan 2012 #18

too much information and discussion? Gosh, let's censor it! Our silly heads will explode! librechik Feb 2012 #21

Yep. This opens another Pandora's Box of tin foil hatters. Lint Head Jan 2012 #6

Those who have believed our government over the years now tend to look nuts in the cold Romulox Jan 2012 #16

and boom goes the dynamite frylock Jan 2012 #17