Comments on: June Porter Speaks

June Porter Speaks

mattbucher — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:02:09 -0800

Interview with Lee Harvey Oswald's daughter, June. (not recent, but fascinating)

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:02:48 -0800

Not much is known about Oswald's two daughters so I found it interesting to read stuff like "During college, Rachel supported herself at the Texas Chili Parlor in Austin. It's right across from the Capitol, and she was a waitress. Well, there's a travel guide she found out about that actually listed the Texas Chilli Parlor and said the daughter of Lee Harvey Oswald worked there."

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:03:09 -0800

BTW, the link is to a forum but reprints a NYT Magazine article.

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:22:32 -0800

Very interesting stuff. Thanks

By: malaprohibita

malaprohibita — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:28:09 -0800

Nice post. It's interesting to read about a different angle on this story.

By: tkchrist

tkchrist — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:31:06 -0800

Man that was good. You remember what you were doing that day. It's a cliché now. But I do. I remember what I was doing the day Kennedy was shot. I literally shit my pants. At least twice. And I cried almost all day. But that could have been the result of the hot barrel of the Italian-made rile burning against my tiny thigh as I crawled through the weeds from the Grassy Knoll. Plus with all the 6.5 mm 160 gr. round-nosed fully copper-jacketed military-type bullets stuffed in my diaper I was really chaffing.

By: inoculatedcities

inoculatedcities — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:49:49 -0800

Interesting interview. It sounds as if she was impressed with the Mailer book -- I wonder if she's read Libra. Also, despite its sober tone against the conspiracy-buffs (which I appreciate) I find it odd that not a single person I know who's read Posner's book liked it. Anyone read it?

By: hal9k

hal9k — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:53:16 -0800

Ted Kennedy was shot?

By: mattbucher

mattbucher — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:53:48 -0800

I read Posner's book and I won't say that I liked it (I think he ignores a lot of salient facts), I will say that it made me think twice about some issues in Oswald's life. The sheer volume of information, rumor, speculation, fact, and fiction that exists on this topic does more to cloud my mind than to clarify it.

By: gubo

gubo — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:00:16 -0800

I always liked Ruth Paine (friend of June's mother).

By: lordrunningclam

lordrunningclam — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:37:58 -0800

FWIW, I was a little kid, in kindergarten I think, but I remember my mother sobbing uncontrollably, not because Kennedy was dead (although she probably voted for him, I have photos of my grandfather with Kennedy) but because she thought the Russians were going to kill us all. Those were different times.

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:40:56 -0800

Only slightly different. Even as a kid in elementary school in the early 70s, I remember being scared shitless the day fighters scrambled over our tiny north-BC schoolhouse. I figured that was the day it was all over. But it's not like things have really changed. All my life, massive extinction of the human species has been just around the corner. It used to be nukes, now it's global environmental climate change.