The last thing that John Kennedy did as President is chew my
ass for being a petty politician.
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The morning of November 23rd, 1963 AD in the year of our Lord, broke overcast and with rain in Fort Worth, Texas. President John Kennedy was up earlier than his wife Jackie, and after a morning rally, they took the short flight on a Boeing 707 to Love Field at Dallas Texas.
An hour before the President arrived, for the departure of the 12 car parade, the sky was still in a deadly shroud, but it soon began breaking and a nice sunny day emerged.
For lack of a better phrase, everything was against John Kennedy that day. A moocher preacher named Braxton Bryant had whined enough, that instead of John Kennedy being driven in Dallas to the Trade Mart for a speech, it was a parade instead. Kennedy wanted that as he had to bend at the waist to Texas, as the three biggest politicians were in a feud, in Senator Yarborough the liberal, Governor Connolly the conservative and Lyndon John who was the consummate politician in being however right or left wing Texas was at the moment, to appease Texas.
In the 12 vehicle convoy, the feud was still going on as Senator Yarborough refused to ride with Vice President Johnson. As John Kennedy was the most unfortunate man on November 23rd, Yarborough was thee most misfortunate man, as John Kennedy had to lay down the law to Yarborough to get him to ride with the Vice President in the Dallas motorcade. In the next hour, Yarborough would go from the leader of progressives in the Senate to having eat crow before Lyndon Johnson. Yarborough would go into decline and Lloyd Bentsen would defeat him in 1970 and from that point on, he was a no one until his death in 1996 AD in the year of our Lord.
For John Kennedy, a sunny day, meant that the 3 tops for the car he was riding were not in question as Kennedy wanted none of them. A metal roof, a cloth roof, and the see through bubble which could deflect a bullet, but not stop it, which was carried in the back of the limousine and had to be attached by the Secret Service.
As the Lame Cherry has always noted, the greatest crime scene in history in that car, was immediately shipped off and destroyed so no one ever saw how many bullet holes were in that car.
John Kennedy had no choice. Yes some segments of America loved him, but he was in danger of losing a re election bid, as most of America were not that thrilled by him. The reality was he had to be seen by the public which turned out in Texas and honestly for the population of Dallas, it was not a people coming out to clog the streets. As Lee Harvey Oswald could attest, there were allot of people who were on the streets or movie theaters who never thought of going to see John Kennedy.
The fact is that John Kennedy that day would not have been saved, bubble or not, as John Kennedy shot in the head, with a bullet slowed by a bubble, was still a man shot in the head. At best, he may have lingered like Lincoln, but would have been removed from office as a veg head.
In closing, Vice President Johnson's Secret Service Agent, took him to the floor of the limo. There is no record of anyone ever trying to protect Ralph Yarborough.
Nuff Said
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