Re: JFK : Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:27 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

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And to finish off, the first arrest that my mate ever made on his own was a young woman who he caught spray painting a wall one night during the campaigns against violence against women (Ripper years), he took her back to Millgarth, they did a search on her name on the one computer that they owned - she was only a known member of the Baader-Meinhof gang (Wiki search that one)

They should have lent George Oldfield that computer.
All that card indexing didn't prove very successful.

Re: JFK : Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:35 pm  

WIZEB wrote:

They should have lent George Oldfield that computer.
All that card indexing didn't prove very successful.

You're going to get me started now

Lets put it like this - my uncle was the catering/bar manager at that time and I often did the glass collecting skivvy job in the players bar after games in the 1970s, the days when RL players drank beer together for the rest of the night after games - if certain senior police had put as much effort into policing as they did knocking back the hard stuff in the players bar until stupid o'clock the next morning then The Ripper story wouldn't be half as long as it is.

Mind, drinking with the ones in charge of the roads on a Saturday night was useful in other ways too, like them making a couple of calls to find out when each station was having a shift change or where each panda car might be on your route home

Re: JFK : Sat Nov 23, 2013 9:52 pm  

We best get back on track before we get a bulling. Presently on C4 although it'll be 4od for me after the Froch/Groves scrap. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/killing-kennedy/

We best get back on track before we get a bulling. Presently on C4 although it'll be 4od for me after the Froch/Groves scrap. http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/killing-kennedy/

Re: JFK : Sat Nov 23, 2013 10:56 pm  

The uncle Albert thread.
During the war ..............

Re: JFK : Mon Nov 25, 2013 10:08 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

I quite like this portion of his speech to Rice University on the decision to start the Apollo Lunar project...
But if I were to say, my fellow citizens, that we shall send to the moon, 240,000 miles away from the control station in Houston, a giant rocket more than 300 feet tall, the length of this football field, made of new metal alloys, some of which have not yet been invented, capable of standing heat and stresses several times more than have ever been experienced, fitted together with a precision better than the finest watch, carrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control, communications, food and survival, on an untried mission, to an unknown celestial body, and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the atmosphere at speeds of over 25,000 miles per hour, causing heat about half that of the temperature of the sun--almost as hot as it is here today--and do all this, and do it right, and do it first before this decade is out--then we must be bold.
"...some of which have not yet been invented..." sort of puts the thing into context, that speech was in 1962.

Sounds like innovation, but he did have hundreds of nazi scientists telling him it was going to happen. Their technology was so far ahead of the yanks. People like Dr Wagner and of course Von Braun, who you'll see in mission control the day they landed on the moon.

Operation Paperclip. Look it up, but not on wikipedia. Still, none of them were really nazis of course. (cough cough) For those who remember a BBC documentary on it years ago I think it may have been titled something like "The Paperclip conspiracy" where files were changed form saying some of the thousands of missile, computer and miltary technologists were stamped as Nazis, but on the next interviews, were stamped as being NOT nazis and were sent to the US so the Soviets couldn't get them.


Anyway back to JFK. Everyone remembers where they were when JFK was shot in the head... apart from JFK himself of course. I fan Q.