4/27/61, “John F. Kennedy Speeches," “The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association,″ “President John F. Kennedy, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City,″ JFKLibrary.org
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11/21/13, "Liberals Rewrite History to Blame Dallas and Conservatives for JFK Assassination," Rush Limbaugh transcript
"I read a little blurb promoting a piece that Bob Costas is doing on some NBC cable network on the Kennedy assassination and what it was like to be a member of the Dallas Cowboys that year. The shame, the embarrassment of being from Dallas.
That's an example of how just off the rails this is, and the attempt to totally change the narrative. Folks, a right-winger didn't kill Kennedy! A right-winger didn't even get a gun and get camped out to kill Kennedy. A left-winger, a communist, killed President Kennedy. And the left still can't accept that. They still have to indict Dallas, the Dallas of the day. Even though who was from New Orleans? Well, Oswald, he was from New Orleans but he lived in Dallas. But he was from Moscow! Oswald was from Moscow.
He came back from Moscow, from Soviet-sponsored training for this. He was working with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. I mean, really on a sports show? You know, the Cowboys went into Cleveland and played the Cleveland Browns. What they're also trying to do is history revision. Every sports network and website is now saying that that weekend is the darkest weekend in the history of the NFL, because Alvin "Pete" Rozelle, the commissioner of the day, made the decision to play the games.
Now everybody still alive that was in the NFL in those days is now saying, "We now Pete not to do it. We told Pete not to play the games. Nobody wants to play," and Pete Rozelle was on an island, apparently, that weekend. He was the only guy now that wanted to play. I mean, this is revisionist history. This is just over the top. I don't know Pettis Norman, and I firmly believe that the media can create people thinking this kind of thing.
I'm sure Pettis Norman, if he says, "Yeah, we were worried some right-winger was gonna come in and kill Kennedy," that's probably the result of the media since the assassination that has put the notion in everybody's mind that Dallas was a hotbed of what? Right-wing assassins! I just don't believe it. I don't believe in the Cowboys locker room that week were all worried that Kennedy was coming to town and some right-winger's gonna kill him.
But that is what he's quoted as saying....It's just out of this world. Kennedy was not assassinated by anybody right winger from Dallas. These conspiracy theories -- many of them, I kid you not. Soviet specialists who've analyzed a lot of these have concluded that the KGB funded a lot of the conspiracy theories. You remember one of the great conspiracy theories -- I say "great," but one -- was by a guy named Mark Lane.
He was probably the first conspiracy theorist funded by the KGB, whether he knew it or not. Mark Lane wrote the first conspiracy book on the Kennedy assassin. It was called Rush to Judgment. That's before anybody knew who I was. That's a sign of the power I was yet to acquire. Rush to Judgment. It was the first to attack the Warren Commission. It came out before the Warren Commission Report. Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Dallas for a few months, all told.
He was from Moscow by way of New Orleans, and according to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin in his 1990 book The Sword and the Shield, the KGB helped finance Mark Lane's research on Rush to Judgment without Mark Lane's knowledge. The KGB allegedly used an intermediary, a friend of Lane who was a KGB contact. I mean, all of this conspiracy crap back then was leftist conjured....
The real conspiracies that held water were that leftists had permeated, communists had infiltrated the US government. Yet the history revision is just amazing. It's a great illustration of how the media gets on to something and it becomes a project, if you will, and they don't let go of it, and the project is somehow to make everybody think that, "Yeah, Lee Harvey Oswald pulled the trigger, but that doesn't matter. Dallas did it!
"H. L. Hunt -- you know, all these rich industrialists in Dallas, these rich Republican guys, friends of Joe McCarthy! Dallas was a hotbed of right-wing extremism." I have a New York Times story from yesterday, written by a guy named Manny Fernandez. Now, I don't know, but I'm gonna guess that Manny Fernandez wasn't even alive during the Kennedy assassination. "Dallas -- When President John F. Kennedy's motorcade left the airport here shortly before noon on Nov. 22, 1963, the man seated in the lead car was the county sheriff, Bill Decker, 65, a storied Texas lawman who led the hunt for Bonnie and Clyde.
"Fifty years later, the badge belongs to Lupe Valdez, 66, the daughter of Mexican migrant farmworkers. She is the only sheriff in America who is an openly gay Hispanic woman. Voters re-elected Sheriff Valdez, a Democrat, to a third term last year." What in the name of Sam Hill does that have to do with the Kennedy assassination? That the old sheriff is some beat up, broken down right-winger by the name of Bill Decker and that the current sheriff is Lupe Valdez, the daughter of Mexican migrants?
This is designed to show how enlightened Texas has become. This is designed to show how modern Texas is. This opening paragraph is designed to show how backwards Texas was. Yeah, there was 65-year-old broken down, gun-slinging, longtime sheriff named Decker who brought down Bonnie and Clyde, but now somebody who really knows their business -- Lupe Valdez, the daughter of migrant Mexican farm workers who's gay and Hispanic -- is there.
"Dealey Plaza -- where the darkest day in Dallas history unfolded 40 minutes after the motorcade began -- looks eerily similar to what it was then, the sixth-floor corner window of the former Texas School Book Depository still cracked open slightly. But Dallas itself is almost as different as Bill Decker is from Lupe Valdez."...
"And the tension between past and present has unleashed a wave of citywide self-reflection a half-century later in a distinctly American place that is part Dallas Cowboys, part Texas excess and part urban melting pot, where the public school students come from homes where 70 languages are spoken. Painful, embarrassing memories of the angry anti-Washington culture that flourished here 50 years ago -- and now seems a permanent part of the national mood -- have resurfaced, confronting Dallasites daily."
This is absolute BS. This is absolute, 100% hogwash.
This is just excrement, folks, the first three paragraphs of a New York Times story yesterday on Dallas.
So you see how they're continuing here to try to portray Dallas as responsible then, and it's still nothing to write home about. But then there is this: "In 1963, Dallas was the 14th-largest city in the country, with a majority-white population of nearly 700,000, a provincial place whose mostly white, mostly male establishment set the agenda." That sounds exactly like the New York Times today, to me! It has a majority white population, provincial place, mostly white, mostly male establishment sets the agenda. Mr. Fernandez, in describing Dallas, has also described the New York Times.
Pettis Norman, the Dallas Cowboys, says the team was very, very worried that some stupid conservative right-winger was gonna kill the president when he came to town. I guarantee you, before this all said and done, it was the Tea Party that did it. Before it's all said and done, before they finish with this, the Tea Party will actually be said to have had its roots in Dallas in 1963 and that the madcap, extremist, right-wing lunaticism is actually the spawning place of the modern day Tea Party. Don't doubt me.
Look, even when I make jokes about these people I end up being right about 'em, so don't discount that." image from RushLimbaugh.com
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4/27/1961, "Our way of life is under attack." Pres. John F. Kennedy referencing the threat of Communism in speech to newspaper publishers.
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11/19/13, NY Times: 50 Years Later, a Changed Dallas Grapples With Its Darkest Day -Manny Fernandez
11/20/13, NBC Sports: Costas Looks at Impact of Kennedy Assassination on 1963 Cowboys
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