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The Manchurian Candidate (1959), by Richard Condon, is a political thriller novel about the son of a prominent US political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.
According to rumor, Sinatra removed the film from distribution after the John F. Kennedy assassination on November 22, 1963. Michael Schlesinger, who was responsible for the film's 1988 reissue by MGM/UA, denies the rumor. According to him, the film's apparent withdrawal was not due to the assassination, but due to lack of public interest by 1963. Sinatra's representatives acquired rights to the film in 1972 after the initial contract with United Artists expired, but he later stated that he was unaware of the transaction at the time. After a successful showing at the New York Film Festival in 1987 renewed public interest in the film, the studio reacquired the rights and it became again available for theater and video releases.[6][7]
Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
SayonaraJupiter
Oswald was without a doubt a Manchurian Candidate. It's obvious that LHO was being "handled" by various intelligence agencies since his induction into the Marines, October 24, 1956, probably earlier.
mike dangerously
reply to post by CornShucker
Yes,yes "conspiracy gezzers" because we all know these writers and bloggers are just far too sophisticated and hip to buy into a cover-up and yet they just can't seem to explain all the evidence that points to a coup.
As many times as I've heard it mentioned, I've never read the book. Is the opening scene of the rarities vid I put up that has Sinatra from the movie of the same name? I'll plan on checking out both.
It is extremely distressing to see the script you laid out and know that that could happen to OUR president in the "real world".
The criticism of the film and its suggestion of a Military-industrial complex conspiracy led to the film being removed totally from the movie theaters by early December 1973 and getting no TV/Video runs until the 1980s and mid-1990s, when it got legal release and distribution for TV and video. The film was originally released on November 7, 1973, almost two weeks before the tenth anniversary of the JFK Assassination.
CornShucker
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
Very good! I'm gonna be busy over there for a while...
Grifter42
reply to post by SayonaraJupiter
I'm writing a commemorative speech about him. The hard part is celebrating his life and not just rambling about his death. Gonna get me some extra credit in speech class..
You know, he was a war hero? He led a remarkable life. It's a shame people only remember his affair with Monroe, and his assassination.
From the confession of James Files 1994: "When I got to the point where I thought it would be the last field of fire, I had zeroed in to the left side of the head there that I had because if I wait any longer then Jacqueline Kennedy would have been in the line of fire and I had been instructed for nothing to happen to her and at that moment I figured this is my last chance for a shot and he had still not been hit in the head. So, as I fired that round, Mr. Nicoletti and I fired approximately at the same time as the head started forward then it went backward. I would have to say that his shell struck approximately 1000th of a second ahead of mine maybe but that what's started pushing the head forward which caused me to miss from the left eye and I came in on the left side of the temple."
From the confession of James Files 2003:
J - where were you aiming?
JF - Oh, I was aiming for his right eye, which to me is the left side of his head looking head on. But for him it would be his right eye, and when I pulled the trigger, and I'm right in on it, and it's almost like looking 6 feet away through the scope. As I squeezed, take off my round, his head moved forward, I missed and I come in right along the temple. Just right behind the eye.
J - Here or in the hairline?
JF - Well, I'm not sure, you know I can't see the penetration, I know I hit him right here (pointing at temple). I know I hit behind the eye. Somewhere within a half inch diameter right there (pointing again).
W - So there were actually two shots almost simultaneously?
J - You think he got hit as you squeezed?
JF - What I believe is this : ….. And I got my readings as a marksman, I'm a good shooter, always was, I'm not bragging on my stuff, don't get me wrong, but that's what got me my start with David Phillips. Because of something that I did in the service, and I made a mark there and it's on record and it's recorded, for headshots, for what I did, and the things that I did. But anyway, to make a long story short, as I am preparing to squeeze off my round, Kennedy's head moved forward, just as I squeezed. It was already in process, the head started forward. To me … what I believe is, … and I did not see, let me clear the fact now, I never saw Mr. Nicoletti shoot Kennedy, but I know he was the man in the Daltex building, the man supposed to be doing the shooting. Therefore the head started forward and as far as I am concerned Mr Nicoletti hit him at that point. As I squeezed off my round, the head started forward, I hit it and blew the head backwards.
Yes he came from a life of luxury, and JFK allegedly said that he suffered a migraine if he didn't have a girl every day, and according to rumors, JFK also had a relationship with Marilyn Monroe. www.dailymail.co.uk...
CornShucker
JFK came from a life of luxury and opportunity while Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig was a grade school dropout who'd had to learn to survive on his own and get his education through daily life.
Grifter42
He led a remarkable life. It's a shame people only remember his affair with Monroe, and his assassination.