Norman MacAfee: Virtual Obama, Virtual JFK

We are in that damn car always driving in Dallas past the depository. We care about these minutes because we know the world completely changed after them. Lyndon Baines Johnson was a different critter than John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Kennedy had been in war, seen action, nearly been killed, was a war hero. Johnson was on the sidelines during the war. LBJ was in a way -- and I mean no disrespect to the man who declared War on Poverty -- the first chicken hawk. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. In his farewell address to the nation in 1961, Eisenhower had warned against the military-industrial complex. And his successor took the warning to heart. As we decide on another presidentiad , as Whitman called it, we must take it all very seriously. We can't have another president pursuing the well-known Bush Doctrine, bombing now and asking questions later. In this light, I urge you to see a new film, Virtual JFK: Vietnam, If Kennedy Had Lived, by Koji Masutani, now at the Film Forum in New York ... (link)