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How to Give Hope On Giving Tuesday ; What IF JFK Lived · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  That is the theme to ELF. And yes, here on the Alex Scarett
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  Podcast Network, we're gonna start with a bit of a holiday feel because over
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  the weekend in the USA Today, by the way, welcome inside once again
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  to the Alex Skarrett Podcast Network. I'm gonna drop a couple links today for
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  you because it is Giving Tuesday as well. And how about this? How
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  about this for Giving Tuesday? Over the weekend Thanksgiving weekend, the USA Today
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  Weekend had this big headline calling all elves. The one hundred and eleven year
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  old Operation s That's Right program is now one hundred and eleven years old,
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  which handles letters addressed to Santa at the North Pole to brighten kids across the
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  country, you know, their holiday season and give them a bit of hope
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  as their holiday wishes are being heard and even fulfilled. But here's the thing
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  about Operation Santa. They're looking for helpers to open hearts and adopt North Pole
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  letters. The US Postal Service, according to USA Today Weekend and Susan Miller,
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  opened its annual Operation Santa letter adoptions on November twentieth, before Black Friday,
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  and the earliest kickoff to date. Now the Postal Service is in search
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  of elves who can make visions of sugar plums dance into reality for those facing
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  a strapped winter. So yes, in the spirit of the holiday season,
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  of the Christmas season, and of the arrival of Santa. I think it's
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  pretty interesting to point out that operations stant there, which is a seasonal tradition,
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  a Christmas tradition, needs your help, and I want to point that
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  out to you here on the Alex Scarrett podcast network, he goes, how
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  awesome would it be to, Yeah, I'm unfolding a newspaper in twenty twenty
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  three to make a kid's day and a kid's Christmas season. I think it'd
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  be pretty cool. Here's what people have told The USA Today. Senior public
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  relations representative super Runnan told the USA Today said this program is unlike anything else
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  in the Postal Service in every aspect. Employees will get involved, are in
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  awe of the program's history and the sheer joy it brings. So many Santa
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  letters must include the writers and first, first and last name, a complete
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  return address including street, apartment number, city, state, and ZIP code.
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  People can adopt the letters through the online channel at USPS Operation Santa dot
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  Com and create an account and make sure idea is verified. All adoptions are
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  digital. Each registered person can adopt it to fifteen letters, so we as
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  adults can maybe bring back that kid's spirit by helping those in need this Christmas
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  and become an Elf for Santa. For Operation Santa. All letters must be
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  postmarked by December eleventh. The letters are open at Santa's mailroom. Personal information
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  is redacted and the letters are uploaded onto the Postal Service website. Some of
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  the most heart melting words come from those looking out for family members. Brennan
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  said, these letters make me cry. The writers with Christian gifts for others
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  are selfless and beautiful. One letter wrote, my name is Elizabeth, Dear
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  Santa. My name is Elizabeth. I am a single mom. I have
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  three kids, two daughters and one son. This year has been hard on
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  us. My four year old was diagnosed with leukemia and as saying, a
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  children's hospital doing chemo. This would help a lot. One writer is Jacqueline
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  in the sixth grade. Please make a Christmas miracle and make Nana better.
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  So those are just a few examples of why US Operation USPS Operation Santa must
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  go on this Giving Tuesday and every season and every Christmas season because kids are
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  writing, people are writing, adults are writing to bring hope into their lives.
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  And I think it'd be awesome if people listen to this podcasts then signed
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  up and adopted these letters. And you can find more in the information below
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  in this description. Also, this Giving Tuesday, I'm gonna drop a link
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  as to why you should help out the Viscardi Center, the Henry Viscardi Center.
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  You'll hear from doctor Chris Rosa, the current president of Viscarti, doctor
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  Henry Viscardi, the founder, the man behind it all. You'll hear his
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  words as to why he created this center in the nineteen fifties after World War
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  Two. And then you let from Joe Salonica, who of course runs wheelchair
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  basketball and adaptive sports and is a big part of the games for the physically
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  challenged. You'll hear his story below, and then I'll drop the lingus to
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  where you can donate this Giving Tuesday and those is an opportunity to make kids
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  with disabilities and young adults with disabilities have a chance, have a fighting chance,
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  be enabled to live a filling life. And God bless that this other
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  story on my mind because of this Christmas season. It's a holiday season,
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  but it's also the month of the sixtieth anniversary of the tragedy that was the
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  assassination of John F. Kennedy, Junior. And to me, what he
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  said and what I found before the American Newspapers Publishers Association, it's kind of
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  crazy considering all the conspiracies surrounding his assassination. Let's know what JFK in his
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  own words said about telling the truth. It's of official censorship and concealment that
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  I do not intend to permit to the extent that it's in my control.
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  And no official of my administration, whether his rank is high or low,
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  civilian or military, should interpret my words. He had a knight as an
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  excuse to sense of the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our
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  mistakes, or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve
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  to know. And how about that? You go and then you watch the
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  documentary featuring the Parkland doctors, and my goodness, my goodness, looks like
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  there was a lot of covering up. There was a lot of disinformation by
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  our own government surrounding the Kennedy assassination. So not only did they dishonor President
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  Kennedy, but they dishonored his wishes. And I often find that maybe perhaps
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  there is a bit of a karma on this government, that that assassination is
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  why nothing can get done today. That's a sixty year lingering effect, Ladies
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  and gentlemen. On the Alex Garrett podcast network, I said it a sixty
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  year lingering effect because the only stuff that's gotten done, it feels like since
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  the assassination was a gonnis into wars. But if you watch and read Jeff
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  Greenfield's column If JFK Had Lived, It's a whole book in the political magazine
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  the History Department. Would JFK have lost had he lived? By Jeff Greenfield,
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  author of If He Lived. Here's what mister Greenfield surmises here. He
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  says that JFK would not have escalated the war in Vietnam. As a candidate,
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  Kennedy proposed aggressive tactics in Vietnam, effectively overseeing the birth of the Green
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  Berets and putting advisers in South Vietnam, but he also had skepticism about involvement
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  in the region. Year back, he rejected the advice of his Joint chiefs
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  according to mister Greenfield and former President right alisor to engage in military action allows
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  he resisted the urging of his military chiefs during the Cuban Missile crisis to bomb
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  the missile sites. He would reply to her advisors urging greater involvement in Vietnam
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  by telling them that if they could get Douglas McCarthy to approve that if Douglas
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  MacArthur to approve the idea of a land war in Asia, he might agree.
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  November twenty first, nineteen sixty three, he told aid Mike forstral as
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  he was leaving for Texas, to organize a top to bottom review of every
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  option we've got, including how we get out there. He did not want
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  to be there, despite putting advisors or do not want to be there.
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  The political impact of leaving Vietnam would have been serious, as Jeff Greenfield with
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  the Republicans and Hawkins Democrats are creusing him of appeasement. But that is answer
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  number one. He did not want to escalate the war. Did not want
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  to escalate the war. But isn't it funny that after he is shot and
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  killed and assassinated boom escalation war happens that doesn't feel like an accident. And
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  I believe that the assassination of JFK has left a huge karma on this country
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  that it's it's going to take a hero to overcome that. Interesting enough.
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  Jeff Greenville also says the nineteen sixties would have been a lot less angry assuming
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  Kennedy did not escalate in Vietnam. The tenor of the times might have well
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  been different had he not been assassinated. Left wing Students for Democratic Society began
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  as a relatively reformist, not radical movement. Without Vietnam, the descent of
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  SDS into competing factions of delusions maust versus Weathermen would not have happened. I
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  really want to get this book if Kennedy lived, by Jeff Greenville, because
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  it's fascinating stuff. The one other most likely that would have happened is that
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  JFK's private life would have become public. Greenfield predicted. We all know Kennedy
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  ran around with different women, and it was hard for Jackie and Jackie Oh
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  and whatnot, but it stayed relatively private. The media began to look hard
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  at the presidence of behind behavior in the last months of Kennedy's life, as
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  far as October nineteen sixty three Clark Melanov Molanov of the Des Moines Register.
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  So the evidence is likely to include identification of several high executive branch officials involved
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  with Ellen Romans. A frequent White House visitor, Jaegger Hoover knew about Kennedy's
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  philandering, and it's possible that you know, there could have been leaks if
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  JFK was around for the nineteen sixty four election, by Hoover himself. By
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  Hoover himself, what would that sound like? Call me me writing memos leaking
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  it to the press? Hello? He Also, it sounds like he's pointing
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  out that FBI directors have been disgruntled every so often to the point of leaking
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  or possible leaks if Kennedy was a lot. But here's the most interesting part
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  of the story. It's possible that Kennedy's could have used the power of the
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  office to keep all the rumors under wraps. There was, after all,
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  no social media, no drudge to bring the story into public attention outside the
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  traditional press, with plenty of tools of intimidation, which his father, Joe
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  Kennedy was great at. By the way, Oh, by the way he
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  finishes off this little bit excerpt. The best we can offer is that had
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  Kennedy lived, there were multiple people with the knowledge, the means, the
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  desire, and the opportunity to finish Kennedy politically, and then his place in
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  history would have been radically different. Had Kennedy lived, Affairs or not,
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  I think we would have been prosperous. I think we would have been peaceful.
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  I think we would not have gone anywhere to the level of Vietnam that
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  we went to. That would have changed the course of American history. I'm
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  only thirty two years old, but I know how bad it got. I
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  know about it got because when I thank the Vietnam vet for his service,
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  he's like, don't thank me for killing innocence. That's the mindset of the
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  Vietnam War vets, and that's a problem. That's a problem. The other
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  interesting note here, I would say was that in nineteen sixty three, at
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  the time of the assassination, unemployment was a five percent, declining inflation rate
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  one point two percent, real economic growth four point four percent, and the
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  year's budget predicted a modest surplus of five hundred million dollars. At that time,
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  if Kennedy had lived. Jeff Greenfield, doctors of Parkland that saw everything
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  right there and the disasters following of just even the way they looks like they
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  marked up his body so it looked like part of the head wasn't missing,
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  as part of the brain wasn't missing, but it was the JFK went splait.
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  Is the day America's karma fell flat and really decreased. And to this
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  day that karma's felt, that anti American sentiment that was felt in the nineteen
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  sixties is still felt today. Just by burning our biggest allies flag of Israel,
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  you are saying you are being anti American as well. But if they
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  did not kill Kennedy, if Kennedy was not shot and here to at least
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  try, you know, to do things during his presidency, we would all
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  have a different course. Or maybe that assassination had to happen so that we
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  could be talking about this together on the Alexa Garrett podcast network. But I
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  do think the Kennedy assassination was a hit to the karma of America. That
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  and I'm usually an optimist. We may never recover from, but we collectively
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  who love America to this day can band together and aspire to carry on that
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  legacy that JFK left us and was tragically cut short from completing on November twenty
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  second, nineteen sixty three.