Mike Rains takes a deep dive into the assassination of President Kennedy. If you would like to hear the rest of this episode and have access to all our premium content go to Patreon.com/pokerpolitics and sign up for 5 dollars a month to have access to an hour+ of bonus content a week. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/hellwqrld. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
♪♪♪ The greatest leader of our time has been struck down
by the foulest deed of our time.
Those were the words of Lyndon Johnson to a joint session of Congress and the American people on November 27th, 1963, four days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
This series is the Foulest Deed series.
It is my attempt to create a historical document of the Kennedy assassination, to go over the events that happened in Daly Plaza and Dallas on November 22nd, 1963, and how the germs of the conspiracy theories that have plagued our nation came to pass over the course of Those moments, those days, how decisions that were made that had potentially innocent reasons for being made looked nefarious in hindsight, and how people who wanted to poke holes in the Warren Commission's theory of how the assassination happened
Uh, had grounds to make their case, as it were, and reasons where they could say, hey, this doesn't look good.
There's something wrong here.
But for those who are going to be listening, thank you so very much for subscribing, for paying for premium content.
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I'm going to do my level best to be as informative and entertaining as I possibly can, talking about this very dark subject, as it were.
The whole idea of going into this is to explain how these things happened and what really happened in Daily Plaza, at Parkland Hospital, on the ride back to Washington, and all of it.
All of these things, all of these details that happened, Throughout these events that have now become a scar in the American psyche that we're never going to be able to heal fully because of the fact that this young, charismatic, intelligent, charming man was killed in this incredibly brutal, violent way in broad daylight in front of hundreds of witnesses.
And people are never going to accept the official narrative.
The government's story on what happened will not be something the majority of Americans are ever going to buy into.
And I may get into why that is also down the line.
But for now, for this episode, I'm just gonna lay down groundwork.
I just want to talk about the events leading up to and what happened during the assassination.
And I'm just gonna see how long and how much details I can give.
And when I run out of steam, which probably will be at some point in the evening of the plane ride back to Washington, we'll wrap this up, we'll go to the next chapter, and I'll get feedback from people who've listened, and I'll see where they want me to go with this.
I'm gonna do a historical review, analysis, Then I'll get into conspiracy theories.
I'll definitely watch JFK the movie and give a breakdown of that.
I haven't seen it in a very long time.
And anything else, anything people want to throw at me when it comes to the Kennedy assassination, I am here for it.
This QAnon stuff is new.
JFK has been for forever.
That's why QAnon latches onto the Kennedy assassination as a touchstone, as a cornerstone of the movement.
That Kennedy was a good guy because obviously he was killed by the bad guys.
So, what happened and how did we get here?
In October of 1963, President Kennedy embarked on a tour of Texas because there was a schism in the Texas Democratic Party.
1963, President Kennedy embarked on a tour of Texas because there was a schism in the Texas Democratic Party.
Senator Ralph Yarborough was a liberal. The governor of Texas, John Connally, was conservative.
Lyndon Johnson had his issues with Yarborough.
But old Lyndon was a bit more liberal than your typical Texan, as it were.
But still, there was the two factions.
And because Kennedy had recently made the push for civil rights, To be a thing that Congress needed to address and we needed to pass a law to try to break Jim Crow and end discrimination in the South, there was a lot of controversy between the liberals who wanted this to happen and the conservatives who were very much in favor of keeping the South as an apartheid state.
And Kennedy knew that he had barely carried Texas against Richard Nixon in 1960, so he wanted to make sure that he had Texas in his back pocket come the 1964 election.
He wanted to win re-election, because that's kind of what presidents who are in their first terms are looking towards, is winning that second term.
So, the plan was made to have Kennedy go to Dallas and other cities in Texas and meet the people, give some speeches, talk to the local leaders, let them know that we need to, as Democrats, come together as one party and make sure that we win big in 64 to promote the Democratic agenda.
But again, that democratic agenda was very much split between the Southern segregationists who didn't want civil rights to happen and those who, the liberals who did.
Yes.
And while this was happening, Kennedy had been told by various staffers not to go to Dallas, that Dallas was a bit dangerous.
It was hostile.
Adlai Stevenson had been hit with a placard by protesters who had taunted him and gone after him.
Lyndon Johnson had been heckled in his home state for being Kennedy's vice president.
There was a sense that Dallas was not cool.
And Kennedy had declared that he would not be afraid of his own people, that he was not going to not visit a city based upon the idea that he might get a hostile reaction.
That was something that would not be acceptable to him.
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