November 21, 2003
Let's Blast Jenkins
On this, the 40th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, my thoughts turn to LBJ. If he hadn't had Kennedy killed, he would have had to kill someone else out of pure frustration. Who do you think LBJ would have killed? I'm guessing Walter Jenkins. That whole DC YMCA dick sucking thing was very embarrassing to the Prez. Think I'm kidding about Johnson? Here's a picture of LBJ giving the grassy knoll gunman, who'd been on Lyndon's payroll since 1958, the "shoot" sign at opening day at Griffith Stadium in 1961. With no clear shot, and the entire stadium looking at either the gunman or a foul pop, Gunman X was forced to wait two and a half years to pop the shot:
The thing that has caught my eye about all the Kennedy-era pictures is the number of men wearing hats. It looks really strange.
Posted by: meg at November 21, 2003 8:02 PMMeg, you realize, of course, that JFK's refusal to wear a tophat at his inauguration destroyed the hat industry in America, and likely worldwide. It never recovered, except in Jamaica.
Posted by: Velociman at November 21, 2003 8:06 PMThey sell a lot of porkpies in Jamaica.
Posted by: Jack Straw at November 21, 2003 9:51 PMyou are dumb, dumb people.