Tom Brokaw needs a history lesson on the 1960 election. Apparently it was just those in ‘conservative states’ that wanted JFK dead 50 years ago. Lets take a look at the 1960 election state by state to see which ones Kennedy won and which Nixon won:
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Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri, West Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina are all considered ‘conservative states.’ But who did they vote for in 1960? They voted for JFK!
Which states voted for Richard Nixon in 1960? California, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, all far left progressive liberal Democrat states.
TOM BROKAW: I was a reporter in Omaha. I was the morning news editor. I did the cut-ins for the Today show on the noon news, and it was kind of an exhausting schedule, about nine hours. And I was in the newsroom kind of cleaning up, and the bells on the wire machines went off. AP and UPI was how we got the news in those days. Not a tweet or anything online. And it meant there was a bulletin of some kind. And I went over and Merriman Smith – who really became legendary for dictating on the run, the UPI reporter – had dictated that shots were fired at the presidential motorcade, the president perhaps fatally wounded. That was the first thing that we saw. And then of course it rolled out there in Parkland and then the announcement of his death.
We didn’t have the network up at KMTV because NBC would give back a local station one hour of midday programming. I ran down, there was a garden show on the air. So I put it on over the garden show and then did that a couple of times. And this was unusual but it was not unheard of. As I came running out of the announce booth the chief engineer – with whom I didn’t get along very well. A really curmudgeonly guy, old, kind of a gnarly guy – and he said, “What happened?” And I said, “Kennedy was shot.” And he said , “About time somebody shot that S.O.B.” That was heard in other places, mostly in the conservative states. But he was, that was reflecting his real feeling, and they had to peel me away from him. I then ran back up and continued to work.
So based on the voting pattern of 1960, is it safe to assume it was far left progressive liberal states ‘citizens’ who wanted JFK dead? If you use NBC Tom Brokaw logic, then you can make that argument. Nevermind the fact that JFK was killed by a progressive liberal Marxist in Lee Oswald, who would be your typical 21st century Democrat today. Oswald makes Barack Hussein Obama look moderate.