DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S
ASSASSINATION BY UPI's MERRIMAN SMITH:
http://jfk-archives.blogspot.com/2012/10/merriman-smith.html
MARK KNIGHT SAID:
Quite interesting that Smith keeps referring to the "bubbletop," which wasn't installed on the car for the motorcade.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Almost everybody in the news business referred to the SS-100-X limo as the "Bubbletop" or the "Famous bubbletop from Washington", regardless of whether the car had the "bubble" affixed to it or not. Walter Cronkite called the car the "bubbletop" on numerous occasions during his initial assassination bulletins on 11/22/63.
KENNETH DREW SAID:
So none of the LNers had a clue?
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
I haven't the foggiest idea what you're babbling about here. Give me a tiny clue please.
KENNETH DREW SAID:
It's strange to me that apparently Smith got a Pulitizer Prize for that story and it was all phony baloney. Anyone that read it the first time would know it was all made up. He could barely see the bubble top, he could barely make out something pink, Jackie's dress? 'inside a bubble top', then he could see it clearly.
I wonder why DVP posted this total hogwash story. Must fit the LN criteria for authenticity.
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[Quoting Merriman Smith:] "We saw the big bubble-top and a motorcycle."
What does that mean? What was the 'big bubble-top'? Is someone making it up as he goes along?
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I think the problem here is he had written this up beforehand when they were supposed to have the bubble top on the car. They only removed it at the last minute. He didn't know that. His total story is phony, made up.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Oh, for God's sake. What nonsense (and utter crap).
Now Ken Drew has got Merriman Smith in on some kind of a plot, which is total horse manure.
As I said to Mark Knight above, the '61 Lincoln Continental limousine was frequently referred to as the "Bubbletop" regardless of whether the bubble was up or down.
And that fact is easily provable when listening to the Walter Cronkite 11/22/63 clip presented below, in which Cronkite refers to the "famous bubbletop from Washington" even AFTER he also says that the President was riding in "the open car" in the Dallas motorcade.
So Cronkite knew the car was "open" (with no bubbletop roof on it in Dallas), and yet just seconds later he still refers to the car as the "Bubbletop".
Is Walter Cronkite part of a conspiracy now too, Ken?....
And, FYI, the reason I posted the Merriman Smith article is because I think it's a very good article and I thought some people here [at The Education Forum] might not have read it before, so I decided to share it on the forum.
But leave it to a conspiracy theorist with a wild and vivid imagination (i.e., leave it to Kenny Drew) to accuse veteran and highly respected news correspondent Merriman Smith of just making up his entire article from whole cloth.
Such a ridiculous and unwarranted accusation should make Mr. Drew want to hide his head in shame and disgrace. But it doesn't---does it, Kenneth?
And for those interested, HERE'S another interesting related article concerning all of the various UPI bulletins that ran on the United Press International wire service on November 22, 1963. Maybe Ken Drew can find a way to pretend that all of those bulletins were just "made up" too.
David Von Pein
September 20, 2015
