Sorry to have gotten off track on the record keeping;
PROMOLINE FOR Thursday 120615: Busy days and we get titles mixed up. This is a specially named file that probably missed it’s schedule. It’s for Thursday June 14th .. All the best.
Cordially Jack
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“JUST A MINUTE”
THE STINK IS STILL HERE
Just a Minute: Forty eight years ago we had a picture of a little girl plucking the bloom of a flower on a black and white TV screen. In its background bloomed a huge nuclear fireball and explosion. It was paid for by the Democratic National Committee for their candidate Lyndon Baines Johnson in the summer of 1964 and run on all the major TV networks across the country. Its intent was to portray Senator Barry Goldwater as a radical and a war monger.
I saw it on TV again last night.
Originally it ran only one time but the smell of the twisted and unfairly mangled
Propaganda effort lingers to this day. Some things may not be unwound or undone. I lived through that campaign. It was a sad commentary on the quality of our news mechanism and indeed the smell and effect of that radicalism still lingers to this very day.
In having our election we need not repeat mistakes. Instead we learn from them – discarding the dishonorable.
Jebco Editorial Service
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