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Who, alive now, could be the 'JFK' moment in 50 years time.



Stat Brother

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Relatively grizzly I know.
I'm struggling to think of the one person who's in their prime now and would be eulogised about in 50 years time, should they meet with an untimely death.

Clearly 9/11 is 'our' where were you when...event, but just one person?
 




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Muzzy

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The person that agreed to those ridiculous bus lanes down the Lewes Road should be a contender!
 






Cheshire Cat

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Sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off...
Tony Blair would have been when he first won the 1997 election up to 2001 - probably not now though
 








smeariestbat

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erm, the queen?!
 












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Sloe Joe

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Keith Floyd - he still owes me two Silk Cut from a hungover New Years day morning in Devon which in the polices' eyes makes me a suspect.
 


Stat Brother

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Frutos said:
Obama is about the only possibility.
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Cheshire Cat said:
Tony Blair would have been when he first won the 1997 election up to 2001 - probably not now though
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I don't think (second term) Obama would generate the unconditional 'love' that's being dished out to JFK.
While Blair not going to get the international love.

Eaglesdestroyseagulls said:
Prince William
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Could well make a serious contribution on the worlds stage, but succession going to put a spanner in those works.
 


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Husty

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Nah, Obama 6 months after he came into office would have but not now. Giving him that noble peace prize is looking like a bloody stupid idea.
 




Stat Brother

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Husty said:
Nah, Obama 6 months after he came into office would have but not now. Giving him that noble peace prize is looking like a bloody stupid idea.
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He did threaten a drone strike if they didn't pony up.
 




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Sloe Joe

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Is Barak Obama (Bin Laden) allegedly really American after all ?
Just seems a bit weird that's all, not that I'm disputing his true heritage at all.
 


skipper734

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Finding the target is not the problem. There was a very special set of circumstances at the time. The Bay of Pigs stand off had ended, there was a definite defined enemy with which there had recently been a great deal of tension, that was felt worldwide.
We are also talking about the trigger happy Americans. Shoot their President, who is thought by America's allies to be the new Great White Hope, popular at home and abroad. You have a situation where it's possible America's enemy is involved in killing their adored President, what's America going to do, shootback?
I think as it now transpires there was never a likelihood of that happening as I'm pretty sure their Secret Service knew fairly shortly after, where the shot that actually killed President Kennedy came from.
About now I was sitting in the basement of the Scandinavia Coffee Bar in Western Road Hove, (it's not there anymore) with our group of Scooter Boys when somebody came in and told us. The threat felt very real and imminent.
 






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Paddy B

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I would think an assassination of Obama would have the same reaction. history has a habit of being re written. JFK was not as universally loved as is widely believed now. He was in danger of losing the 64 election, in fact the only reason he was in Dallas was that Texas was such a crucial state.
 


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