#NowWatching Oliver Stone’s JFK. The movie has issues, but it’s one of the best edited movies ever made, and the supporting cast is amazing. Gary Oldman, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones,John Candy, and Kevin Bacon. I’m not a fan of Kevin Costner, but everything else is so dynamic.
Courtesy: @BeschlossDC
"Life Magazine that was scrapped tomorrow #1963 after President’s #assassination and replaced by a #JFK memorial issue. Look at title of first article promoted on this cover..."
A model of the SS Athena in Glasgow's Riverside Museum. The Athena was built in the city in 1923 as a trans-Atlantic liner for the Anchor-Donaldson Line. In September 1939, while entering the Western Approaches (the area of the Atlantic to the west of the UK and Ireland) she was torpedoed by U-30, a German submarine, making her the first British ship to be sunk by Germany in World War Two.
President Kennedy on John Birch Society—right wing extremism 1961, “the basic good sense and stability of the great American consensus has always prevailed” over “the discordant voices of extremism.”
Remembering John F. Kennedy's assassination and how the announcement of his death was received in my junior high school in small-town south Arkansas…. The remembrance is in two parts, part 2 following part 1.
If a #Democrat wants change, they just wait 40 or 50 lifetimes, and maybe, just maybe, the billionaires will find a cookie for you that they haven't peed on first.
#SCOTUS is the Supreme Court for Billionaire Rapists, Thieves, Seditionists and Traitors.
The price of justice in #America is money. Open a bag of it. Spread it around. Pay for dirt on everyone. Use that dirt to get your way. Make everyone bow.
2/29/24 — Open 6-9p. Mask recommended. No open containers, please.
Here's another that, if someone doesn't buy it soon, I may just take home. Not an audiobook but, a collection of audio from historic events on 2 CDs, compiled with a book of background info. Primarily concerned with US events.
I biked from noe to the conservatory of flowers today with the kid on the back and HOT DAMN it was honestly one of the most incredible experiences of my #biking life.
Gorgeous gorgeous day. Got to ride up Page #SlowStreet, which is just so lovely. Then down #JFK which is honest to good one of the most beautiful promenades on the planet right now. There was art! There was nature! There was community!
God, #SanFrancisco you can really show off when you want to.