Monday, May 15, 2006

Flying with the Kennedy family

A couple of my readers felt alarmed by the news that lightning struck Ted Kennedy's airplane. An acquaintance presented me with a challenge: Let's see you make a conspiracy out of THAT, Mr. Smarty Pants...

Mr. Smarty Pants. I like the sound of that. Unfortunately, I cannot fulfill the request.

But I can remind readers that this is neither the first nor the most serious aircraft accident involving Ted Kennedy. In 1964, he was nearly killed in a airplane crash; fellow senator Birch Bayh pulled him from the wreckage. One of the early JFK assassination researchers, Joachim Joesten, did try to construct a conspiratorial scenario around the incident. But I no longer possess Joesten's paper, and I cannot recall the details.

Airplane mishaps play a remarkable role in the Kennedy saga, starting with the strange WWII death of the eldest brother, Joe Kennedy. Sister Kathleen was killed in an airplane crash, as was John F. Kennedy Jr.

What are the chances...?

5 comments:

sunny said...

The story of the mishap mentions all electrical devices on board shut down. There was speculation by some conspriracits that this is exactly what happened to Paul Wellstones plane, having conclusively debunked the bad weather excuse, IMO.
Nobody will ever convince me Wellstone wasn't murdered. His death was just to convenient for some people, and the facts of the crash just too hinky and suspicious.
Dem politicians in general seem particularly susceptible to death by plane crash.

Cartledge said...

If the modern conspiracy theory was not created by the Kennedy’s it sure has been honed through them.
It seems a Kennedy or family connection cannot sneeze without generating a flurry of creative rumours.

Anonymous said...

Hey, Cartledge?

Joseph and dr. elsewhere are reasonable individuals; there are some (lots?) of unfounded, ill-thought-out, or just plain stupid non-conspiracies and theories about them that I'm sure they wouldn't waste readers' time on here. But...I think you might be on the wrong site. Just giving you a heads up so you can avoid having the rest of us laugh at you if you choose.

Peter of Lone Tree said...

"What are the chances...?" -- Joe

Fact? Fiction? Some of both?:
"Scalar Wars results in Control of the Weather"
also at same site:
"The Brave New World of Scalar Electromagnetics"
http://tinyurl.com/fcq5u

Anonymous said...

Reading reports about the JFK Jr. crash, I don't believe the official story about that one either. He was going to run for office in 2000. You can imagine what that might have meant to the Republican party's chances of victory.