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Bassago
reply to post by NorEaster
Chamberlain's appeasement policy huh?
Okay I know I'm gonna take some flame for this but he looks like a targeting marker to me. The only thing missing is a florescent orange vest.
AlphaHawk
reply to post by NorEaster
Good video.
A cautionary tale indeed.
Some of the Sandy Hook nuts would do well to watch this I think.
intrptr
Random thoughts:
A "protest", huh? Aren't they supposed to be obvious, like with signs and banners? Plenty of people protested Kennedy that day. They did it with placards, not an umbrella(?).
It was the perfect all clear signal from someone who was in perfect position to see that everyone in the car was seated where they were supposed to be.
Who on high could miss that umbrella?
Ever hear of the balloon is going up? It meant ready for action.
Nobody else had one out that day except him and it was eminently visible from everywhere in that plaza.
DeadSeraph
reply to post by NorEaster
Ahhh. Thankyou. So because there is a prosaic explanation for umbrella man, therefore oswald.
Makes perfect sense.
NorEaster
intrptr
Random thoughts:
A "protest", huh? Aren't they supposed to be obvious, like with signs and banners? Plenty of people protested Kennedy that day. They did it with placards, not an umbrella(?).
It was the perfect all clear signal from someone who was in perfect position to see that everyone in the car was seated where they were supposed to be.
Who on high could miss that umbrella?
Ever hear of the balloon is going up? It meant ready for action.
Nobody else had one out that day except him and it was eminently visible from everywhere in that plaza.
It wasn't so much a protest as an attempt to insult him. No shooter in that kill zone would've needed a guy with an umbrella to tell them that the car was in position. Seriously. They had wireless radios at that time. They had a wide range of methods to keep all event participants in sync that wouldn't include something as blatantly obvious as a guy with a black umbrella opened at the point of crossfire impact.
Real killers don't stage cartoonish clues like that. As much as I honestly believe that JFK was a sitting duck for at least two shooters, the umbrella man seems like one of those bizarre coincidences that litter human history. I think that he chose the Dealy Plaza area after he saw that it was the one stretch of downtown where the crowds were thinned out enough for Kennedy to actually see his protest display. It would have been his last shot at (in his own mind) "powning" the president by mocking his father's infamous political crash-and-burn moment. He probably saw it as something that JFK would immediately understand, since Chamberlain (and that infernal black umbrella) was the very famous reason that Joe Kennedy's political fortunes vanished at the height of their promise. He'd be thinking "Like father, like son" with that umbrella display. Not very clear to the rest of us here in the 21st century, or probably for most folks in that time period, but I've definitely seen much more obscure "gotchas" here on this board. It's certainly plausible that this guy was thinking "Here's one for you and your loser dad!" with that open umbrella.edit on 11/24/2013 by NorEaster because: (no reason given)
NorEaster
No shooter in that kill zone would've needed a guy with an umbrella to tell them that the car was in position.
Agreed. A shooter would be more distracted trying to judge when to shoot … right at the time they need to be focused on the mechanics of the shot itself.