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Old 04-14-2020, 01:54 PM   #5591 (permalink)
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FTR when I say best I mean in terms of the assassination itself, not the cause or ideology behind it. Props to the japanese guy for using a sword and doing it on TV.
Princips caused WW1 so even if the attempt wasn't the best he still gets top billing by default. But what a shot by that Oswald guy, right? *wink wink*
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 04-14-2020, 01:57 PM   #5592 (permalink)
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Even if Oswald made that shot I deduct points for being a sniper as opposed to up close and personal with a daring escape.
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Old 04-14-2020, 02:03 PM   #5593 (permalink)
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Are you saying being a sniper is less cool than being an actor? A theater actor?
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Old 04-14-2020, 02:08 PM   #5594 (permalink)
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If you're such a good actor that you shoot the president and an audience full of armed soldiers think it's part of the play, then yea.
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Old 04-14-2020, 02:10 PM   #5595 (permalink)
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Maybe they just thought no one would be stupid enough to jump off a second floor balcony and break their leg if they weren't acting.
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Their mistake. Meanwhile the killer got away on their watch and now who has egg on their face?
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Old 04-14-2020, 02:22 PM   #5597 (permalink)
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The guy with the broken leg who couldn't get away.
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He got away from the scene of the crime. Then they had the biggest manhunt in American history at that time to track him down.
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Old 04-14-2020, 02:29 PM   #5600 (permalink)
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I could be wrong but I think John Wilkes Booth was pre-OJ.
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