Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
Friday, March 21, 2025
BREAKING NEWS: Trump Announces He Is Releasing 'All Of The Kennedy Files...
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[ "Bertrand Russell, a prominent British philosopher, expressed significant doubts about the Warren Report's conclusions regarding the assassination of President Kennedy, questioning the single-bullet theory and the idea that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. " ]
I was a student along with my big brother Rick at Hope High School in Providence , Rhode Island on the day President Kennedy was shot , November 22, 1963. My biology class was watching a film on the " circulation of the blood " . It was suddenly interrupted by the teacher , Mr. Cunningham, with an announcement : " The President has been shot in Dallas ! ". Driving back home in big brother Rick's car , we got the news that President Kennedy was in fact D-E-A-D ! A lot of drama that weekend viewed at home on the TV screen . Like Lee Harvey Oswald , a self-described Marxist ( himself perhaps a WARNING shot of the " Tumultuous Sixties " ? ) shot on TV, a " nationalized televised murder ".
I never had any use for violence and I, like many Americans, loved JFK. But I began to wonder if SOCIALLY I had more in common with that " ANGRY YOUNG MAN " , Lee Harvey Oswald, than with any member of the upper class Kennedy family.
I did feel that I had some intellectual inclinations in common with the aristocratic Bertrand Russell. I recall that I had just read his popular book " Why I Am Not A Christian ". Today I could attempt an essay titled : " Why I Am Not A New Atheist ".
NOTE : What I definitely had in common with Lord Russell was a belief some form of democratic socialism.
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