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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 12:42 AM
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AP: Kennedy Was Death Threat Magnet, FBI File Shows
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AssociatedPress — June 14, 2010 — For decades after gunmen shot down his brothers, Sen. Edward Kennedy lived under constant assassination threats of his own, sometimes as he became a target for extremist rage, previously private FBI documents disclosed Monday.
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Clintonista2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 05:47 AM
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1. Right wingers are violent, what else is new
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The Wizard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 06:20 AM
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2. Republican sympathizers no doubt (NT)
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 08:16 AM
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3. This seems to be the price for the relationship - 'Kennedy' to 'visionaries'
The turning point of America seems to have been so threatening when JFK came along to the racket of war, xenophobia, racism.
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-15-10 08:56 AM
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4. In their eyes he was
double bad, a Catholic liberal.

Historically, in the town where I grew up, Catholics were the main target of hatred by the very active KKK. There were no black inhabitants or Jews to target as they simply were not allowed to enter the town.
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