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JFK Views Flying Saucer?

On a sunny afternoon in Dallas, Texas the President of the United States rolled down Elm Street on November 22, 1963.  Shots roared, people screemed, and within the next hours, the young American President had been slain.  Where aliens involved or was it the mob?

 

Image Credit: Flickr, JImmy Tyler

Image Credit: Flickr, JImmy Tyler

Or as Oliver Stone inferred in his his movie, ”JFK”, was it a vast government conspiracy?  As revealed by the infamous Zapruder film, John Fitzgerald Kennedy had been shot twice.  As the first bullet which struck, it was evident that JFK had been wounded in the upper back. The bullet exited the area around the throat area. The findings from the Warren Commission which later was set up to fully investigation the assassination, revealed that the first wound was not a mortal wound.  Kennedy likely would have survived.  The second bullet is believed to have missed, but the third shot struck the President in the back of the head, ending his life.  Volumes of books have been written since the event and several investigations by private citizens, groups and the U.S. government has taken place.  It was an event that shaped history and the world in a manner never seen before or since.

Shortly after the assassin was killed himself at the Dallas, Texas police station by a conflicted and impulsive night bar owner, Jack Ruby, conspiracy theories began to emerge. Even to this day, the event is clouded in mystery, though most informed experts subscribe to the single assassin theory with Lee Harvey Oswald being the responsible killer.

Nevertheless, there is a small, but very vocal minority of researchers, critics, and investigators that do not believe JFK was killed that November day in Dallas, Texas.  Over the years there have been numerous sightings.  While Kennedy’s body was presumably autopsied and photographed, there are believers that the autopsy was of not of JFK and that the photographs are not legitimat.

One report from UFOSNW.com, purports that an Air Force veteran photographer stated that he was asked to take photos of JFK with an alien in September 1963 at a secret airbase, which would have been a few months before the assassination.  Prior to taking the photos, he was accompanied by two men in black suits.  Ok, if you are thinking Men in Black, I understand.  Little is known about this veteran photographer as through his correspondence he was adamant about his confidentiality, though the person relating the story states that he was able to verify that his individual was stationed at Adair Air Force Station in 1963.

The alien was reportedly a “head” taller than President Kennedy and a saucer shaped craft was nearby. The letters A-TIPACIL reportedly appeared on the space craft. The meeting supposedly lasted about 30 minutes. The alien was also described as having very long, thin arms, large black eyes, and dressed in a grey jump suit. The Air Force veteran who snapped off the photographs (which are not in the public domain) speculated that Kennedy may have been assassinated  because he wanted to make the alien’s presence known to the public.  The story was allegedly kept under wraps because of death threats to the veteran, but as age and sickness has entered into the picture, the individual had little to lose, it was said.

There have been other stories circulate over the years to claim President Kennedy had been taken to alien crash site locations in the past and had interacted with aliens.  What really happened regarding Kennedy and any contact he may have had with aliens is left to each of us to speculate about given the sparseness of information.

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Philosophy of Forrest Gump – Wisdom & Quotes

There is not much not to like about the simple man from Alabama.  I think what a lot of people enjoy about Forest Gump is the goodness and honesty reflected in most everything he says and does.  And of course while the character of Forest Gump is based on a movie starring Tom Hanks and several other notable actors,  some of you who have watched the flick may have been touched in some way by the deep wisdom Forest Gump shared with the world.   He is an angel of a man, mending the broken spirit.

 

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Image credit – jinlim.deviantart.com

 

Indeed, for all of the simplicity and seemingly lack of depth of the Forest Gump character, one cannot help but realize that Forest touched on one of mankind’s greatest philosophical questions.  Namely is our life meant to follow down one path (i.e. destiny).  A life in which everything has been decided for us before we are even born.  Or is there a randomness about it all in such a way that we are just floating around on a breeze.  For those who have never seen the movie, well you really should go explore it because not only is this most fascinating of philosophical topics explored throughout in both thought provoking and light hearted ways, the movie is also full of many other Forest Gump wisdoms and quotes which we are most happy to share with you.

Famous Forest Gump Wisdoms & Quotes

1. “Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far away from here” (Forest Gump’s girlfriend, Jenny)

2. “My Momma said, life is like a box of chocolates.  You never know what you are gonna get”

3.  “You have to do the best with what God gave you” (Forest’s  beloved mother)

4.  “I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both is happening at the same time.  Momma always said dying was part of life.” (Here is where Forest explores the riddle of destiny and free will.  His solution is interesting to say the least).

5.  “Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that’s about it”. (This little pearl of wisdom was offered up by Forest Gump’s best friend, Bubba.  Later after the movie was released, the Bubba Gump restaurant and seafood chain was opened and remains open to this day).

6. “Stupid is as stupid does” (Hard to argue with that!)

7.  “When I got tired, I slept. When I got hungry, I ate. When I had to go, you know, I went.” (Clearly we have a young man who lived his live in the present, enjoying the simplicity of everyday life and doing everything possible to downsize anxiety and worry)

8. “My Mama always said you’ve got to put the past behind you before you can move on.”

9. “Mama said not to be taking rides from strangers”

10.  “Jenny, it looked like there were two skies one on top of the other. And then in the desert, when the sun comes up, I couldn’t tell where heaven stopped and the earth began. It’s so beautiful.”

11. T”here was Dallas, from Phoenix; Cleveland – he was from Detroit; and Tex… well, I don’t remember where Tex come from”

12. “Mama always said, God is mysterious”