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by Ron Kurtus
A total of 262 comments and questions have been sent in. They are listed according to date.
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Review the facts on similarities - USA
Met Eunice Kennedy while on the train to SB - USA
Is it like the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy? - USA
Cops were called Pigs before 1968 - USA
You should adll O'Reilly's book on Lincoln - USA
Man who filmed the Kennedy assassination - USA
Update on Russo-Finnish War - USA
Davy Crockett was also a weapon system - USA
Review the facts on similarities
Topic: Lincoln and Kennedy
Question
May 25, 2013
You should review the "facts" given on your page, "Similarities Between the Assassinations of Kennedy and Lincoln (1860s and 1960s)", with the information given on the page at snopes.
Go to Snopes dot com and search for Lincoln Kennedy. You will see at the top an entry titled, "Lincoln and Kennedy Coincidences"
Don - USA
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The Snopes article did not invalidate any of the similarities in the list. In fact, the author admitted they were true. However, he did question and analyze the value of the similarities, showing that many were insignificant. For example, the fact that both were elected 100 years apart and had seven letters in their names really doesn't mean much.
The whole list of similarities certainly is interesting and even entertaining, but they really have no serious significance. Also, there are no mystical forces behind the coincidences.
The only thing I have to say to the author who spent so much time analyzing the list is: "Get a life!"
Met Eunice Kennedy while on the train to SB
Topic: Japanese Attack SB
Question
February 8, 2013
Thank you for the article. I happened to be on a blacked-out Pacific coastal train on that particular night. Just after pulling out of Santa Barbara, heading north, the train came to a dead stop for about four hours. During the unexplained wait, I struck up a lengthy, delightful conversation with a chance fellow passenger who told me her name was Eunice Kennedy, that she too was attending Stanford University, that she had a number of brothers, and that her father had been the U.S.Ambassador to England. It was a few days later that the reason for the stoppage was revealed.
Emery - USA
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Thanks for sharing your experience. I am sure that it was not only interesting to find out about the reason the train was stopped but also to meet Eunice Kennedy. Little did you know at the time that her brother would become president.
It's good to have some old memories like that.
Is it like the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy?
Topic: Lincoln and Kennedy
Question
February 3, 2013
Look up the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy for an answer to these supposed coincidence.
Eric - USA
23172
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The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy mainly concerns gathering a large amount of data and seeing similarities that present a pattern. Usually some conclusions are drawn from the pattern.
The coincidences concerning the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy probably don't quality as a Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy, since no real conclusions are drawn.
I guess you could find coincidences in almost every similar historical event. However, the number of similarities in the Lincoln and Kennedy deaths certainly is weird (and entertaining).
Cops were called Pigs before 1968
Topic: When Cops were Pigs
Question
November 30, 2012
I find that your account of why police are called pigs to be wildly inaccurate. There are roughly 80 accounts, that I could find, where police were called PIGS predating 1968. According to academia the term is actually an abbreviated form of Patrolmen In Ghetto.
- USA
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Thanks for your observation. I updated the page to include a few references from the 1500s to the mid 1800s where police were called pigs. However, the expression of "pigs" for police fell by the wayside many years before 1968, at which time the media picked up on the expression.
The article is more of an eyewitness view of what happened outside the Convention in 1968 than a history of an expression.
You should adll O'Reilly's book on Lincoln
Topic: Lincoln and Kennedy
Question
September 3, 2012
You should definately add Bill O'Reilly's book "Killing Lincoln". A comprehensive account of Lincoln's assination & a national best seller, non fiction, for nearly a year.
Clifford - USA
22879
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Thanks for the suggestion. I added the book as a resource.
Man who filmed the Kennedy assassination
Topic: Lincoln and Kennedy
Question
August 27, 2012
what about the man who took the famous film of Kennedy being shot from the grassy knoll? Wasn't his name Abraham Zabruder?
Jim - USA
22862
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You were close. His name was Abraham Zapruder.
Update on Russo-Finnish War
Topic: Russo-Finnish War
Question
June 29, 2012
The second Russo-Finnish war was not started by The USSR, but by the Finns, in an effort to take back the land lost in the first war, 18 months before. Though the Germans, who attacked the Soviets at the same time, urged the Finns on, they stopped when they reached the old border.
Eventually the Finns realized the error of joining Germany, in the attack on the Soviets, and got out of the war, after events turned against them. In the second treaty, the Finns lost more land still.
Richard - USA
22751
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Thanks for the information.
Apparently, Finland was the only nation to pay off their war debts after WWII.
PS: By your last name, you must be of Finnish heritage.
Davy Crockett was also a weapon system
Topic: Start the Fire Facts
Question
January 31, 2012
Yuo mention that Davy Crockett was the TV show with Fess Parker. Some videos have the Davy Crockett as the Nuclear Weapon a tactical nuclear recoilless gun for firing the M388 neclear Projectile that was deployed by the US during the Cold War.
The Davy Crockett was developed in the late 1950s for use against Soviet troops had war broken out in Europe. Small teams of the Atomic Battle Group would be stationed every few km to guard against Soviet attack, using the power of their nuclear artillery to kill or incopacitate advancing troop formation and irradiate the area so that it was uninhabitable for up to 48 hours, long enough to mobilize NATO forces.
Randall - USA
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Thanks for the input. Although I'm sure that Billy Joel was referring to the TV show, I still added information about the Davy Crockett weapon system to the page.
The right to bear arms and defeat the government
Topic: General
Question
January 29, 2012
my name is michael. people have that right to bear arms. seems your government wants to change this. someone sad i dont have the right to speak cause im not american, but i do we share the longest border in the world. it wil affect us.
and anther question: the person that told me so there parents moved romploand to america. im half scottish. my greatgrandfather comes from new york state. look into the keith clans and crawford clans in america. so i do have that right.
i think if it ever came down it, the best way to defeat the goverment is this: hit and run attacks, blow up many building, use rocket launchers to take out helicopters. they are very successful. they worked in the afghanstan russia conflict and resently taking down 31 navy seals. they your government has abonded the people for this elite. i hope there is a revlotution. if there is, ill be fighing to i will do anything what ever it takes for people freedoms. seems in the military thers immigrants that are in the army and deep inside they just have resentment.
michael - Canada
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The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that the right to bear arms is part of a regulated militia. It is meant for the people to organize to defend their communities and not to overthrow the government that allowed that right.
Most revolutions that have overthrown the government have resulted in much bloodshed, often of innocent people. Also, the new government that takes over can easily become a dictatorship. Is that what you are looking for?
Would like pictures of famous people and events
Topic: Start the Fire Facts
Question
December 7, 2011
Hello! First of all, I just want to say how informative this website is and thanks so much! But, I showed it to my teacher and she said that what would make it EVEN BETTER would be to add pictures to the majority of the people/events in the We Didn't Start The Fire history/facts page. This would give people an idea of who the person looked like (ex. Joseph Stalin) or what the object looked like (ex. Studebaker car). I know that this would attract more people to your website because it adds visual content which everyone enjoys to look at it! :) Thanks so much for considering this.
- USA
22247
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Thanks for the suggestion. We'll try to get more pictures that would help make the article better.
Best wishes for continued success in your studies.
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