JFK rumor: I have heard this a couple time and I figure I ask if this was true: George HW Bush

[diabeticman]

Has claimed he didn't know or couldn't remember where he was when JFK was killed. Is this true?


Also what about the theory that Bush Sr was in Dallas the day of?

[PDJane]

1. He has claimed that, yes.

Do I believe him?

Well, that's another story, you know.

As for the evidence that he was in Dallas the day of.....There is a photo of someone who looks an awful lot like him floating around the net, apparently taken on the day of. Also, he was a member of the CIA at the time.

[former9thward]

2. I have read that many times on the internet.

But so far nobody ever links to it. So who knows if it is true or not.

[RobertEarl]

3. Bush at the CIA

This will give some a perspective on the crook. Thanks Octafish.



From "The Unauthorized Biography of George Bush"...

EXCERPT...

During the preparation of the present work, there was one historical moment
which more than any other delineated the character of George Bush. The
scene was the Nixon White House during the final days of the Watergate
debacle. White House officials, including George Bush, had spent the
morning of that Monday, August 5, 1974 absorbing the impact of Nixon's
notorious "smoking gun" tape, the recorded conversation between Nixon and
his chief of staff, H.R. Haldemann, shortly after the original Watergate
break-in, which could now no longer be withheld from the public. In that
exchange of June 23, 1972, Nixon ordered that the CIA stop the FBI from
further investigating how various sums of money found their way from Texas
and Minnesota via Mexico City to the coffers of the Committee to Re-Elect
the President (CREEP) and thence into the pockets of the "Plumbers"
arrested in the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.
These revelations were widely interpreted as establishing a "prima facie"
case of obstruction of justice against Nixon. That was fine with George,
who sincerely wanted his patron and benefactor Nixon to resign. George's
great concern was that the smoking gun tape called attention to a
money-laundering mechanism which he, together with Bill Liedtke of
Pennzoil, and Robert Mosbacher, had helped to set up at Nixon's request.
When Nixon, in the "smoking gun" tape, talked about "the Texans" and "some
Texas people," Bush, Liedtke, and Mosbacher were among the most prominent
of those referred to. The threat to George's political ambitions was great.

The White House that morning was gripped by panic. Nixon would be gone
before the end of the week. In the midst of the furor, White House
Congressional liaison William Timmons wanted to know if everyone who needed
to be informed had been briefed about the smoking gun transcript. In a
roomful of officials, some of whom were already sipping Scotch to steady
their nerves, Timmons asked Dean Burch, "Dean, does Bush know about the
transcript yet?"

"Yes," responded Burch.

"Well, what did he do?" inquired Timmons.

"He broke out into assholes and shit himself to death," replied Burch.

In this exchange, which is recorded in Woodward and Bernstein's "The Final
Days," we grasp the essential George Bush, in a crisis, and for all
seasons.

SOURCE: http://www.padrak.com/alt/BUSHBOOK_1.html

[Samantha]

7. Side issue: do many people know the CIA headquarters is named after George H.W. Bush?

I did not know when it was decided to name the Langley headquarters after him. When I found out, I was livid. Whenever I just hear "Langley" and "CIA" I think about the fact most people don't refer to it by that name, "The George H.W. Bush Center for Central Intelligence" -- even the press do not refer to the Langley organization by that name. Do members of the press think a good many people would be outraged to know this so they just refer to it as the CIA headquarters or the CIA in Langley?

I wish there were a way that could be changed because it is totally inappropriate. (Yes, I know he was a Director of the CIA).

Sam

[rug]

4. There's an old thread on this with some info.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3274455

[Octafish]

11. That thread certainly bothers a few DUers.

Like a tag team, almost.

[rug]

12. Yup. It's strange reading old threads, isn't it?

[Octafish]

13. Brings back many great voices.

DU was filled with mighty voices willing to take on the election-thieving BFEE.

Many, thank Moon, are still with us, rug-san.

I remember when discussing events helped drive them.

That must be a threat to the monied class, going by the organized effort to shape its repression.

[DesertFlower]

5. i saw it in a documentary a few years ago.

it looked like him. he didn't remember where he was. everyone remembers where they were.

[Marie Marie]

6. This ^^^

That is all you have heard every day since. Where were you and what were you doing when you heard? You are right, EVERYONE remembers.

[treestar]

10. Yes. Everyone remembers, and he should too.

[Politicalboi]

8. Here he is

<a href="http://imgur.com/4Jjjtel"><img src="" title="Hosted by imgur.com"/></a>

[mattclearing]

9. Interesting consideration of it here:

http://jfkfacts.org/assassination/fact-check/absolved-george-h-w-bush/

I try not to speculate about such things, because it only serves to discredit attempts to improve our understanding.

The fact that there is still a lot of information being withheld indicates that we have an incomplete picture of the event. That's enough for me to reserve judgment on the matter.