Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Camelot, in Camelot

John F. Kennedy would've hit the big nine-oh today, had he not been shot outta his limo by several different lone gunmen that dreadful day in Dallas.Click pic to enlarge
.Future prexy standing right. Note '40s style pre-presidential codpiece. These guys from Hah-vahd & Yale are just too fucking much.
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Pres. at the controls. (c. 1943)

JFK's current place in history is that he was the first (so far only) Chief Magistrate to have been killed dead in the street while in office during the Telebision Era; stills of a martyred war hero/president's funeral do not have the impact of a televised muffled drums & riderless horse ceremony.

Photos copyright National Geographic.

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