[SKRIVA] För 50 år sedan...

From: Ahrvid <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:45:00 +0100
För 50 år sedan idag sändes det första avsnittet av TV-serien "Dr Who", och BBC 
har gjort ett speciellt 50-årsjubileumsavsnitt som kommer att sändas i 75 
länder samtidigt. Dock inte i Sverige. I Norden är det bara finska YLE som 
sänder det. Men i samarbete med SF-Bokhandeln kommer bion i Tumbas Folkets Hus 
att visa avsnittet, live - i 3D dessutom.


http://www.folketshustumba.se/kalender/view.asp?ID25


Dock är livesändningen utsåld. En extraföreställning går direkt efter (och där 
finns nog biljetter kvar).





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Men en annan 50-årig grej är att det i går var 50 år sedan USA-presidenten John 
F Kennedy lönnmördades på öppen gata i Dallas, Texas. Med anledning av det 
skrev jag på en utrikisk sf-lista nedanstående betraktelse där jag drar 
paralleller med mordet på Olof Palme (och det finns en del paralleller 
Kenney/Palme visade det sig):



I was a little toddler when President John F Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, 
but certainly not when the same happened to the Swedish Prime Minister Olof 
Palme in 1986. It occurs to me that there are a number of parallels to be 
drawn. Here we go:

* Both Sweden and the US had a long history of national leaders being killed. 
For the US, before Kennedy, Lincoln, McKinley, Garfield. For Sweden kings 
Gustavus Adolphous and Charles XII (died in battle), Gustav III (assassinated), 
and then Palme.

* Both Kennedy (Democrat) and Palme (Social Democrat) were to the left of 
middle in politics.

* Both were from families of nobility. The Kennedy clan has been described as 
the closest to a royal family theres been in the US. Palmes grandmother was 
Finland-Swedish nobility and his mother German-Baltic nobility and the young 
Olof grew up in the upper class.

* Both had their possible successors assassinated. JFKs brother Robert fell 
for a murderers bullet during his presidential campaign. The Swedish Foreign 
Minister Anna Lindh was knifed to death in 2003, but was generally considered 
as the natural successor to the then Prime Minister Göran Persson (who has said 
he was to to resign mid-period and let Anna take over).

* Both were men of words, making speeches reaching international attention. 
Kennedy: We choose to go to the Moon, Ich bin ein Berliner, Ask not what 
your country. Palme: comparing Vietnam to Treblinka etc (angered Nixon to the 
point of pulling the US Ambassador), creatues of dicatorship in 
Czechoslovakia, these bloody killers (about the Franco dictatorship in Spain).

* Both took their high offices at an unprecedented young age: Kennedy was 43, 
Palme became Prime Minister at the age of 42.

* Both were surrounded by Infidelity rumours. Kennedy with Marilyn Monroe, 
Palme with Shirley MacLaine. Hollywood actresses both.

* Both murders linger somewhere in the realm of solvedunsolved. I have no 
doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald fired those bullets from the schoolbook 
depository, but there are many unanswered questions. A fourth bullet? What did 
the guy do in the USSR? Why was he himself killed? People behind? For Palme, 
the murder is officially unsolved, but one Christer Pettersson was convicted 
for it in a lower court, then acquitted in the appeals court for insufficient 
evidence (despite the widow and a son pointing to him, with some degree of 
certainty). Sources in the Stockholm police claim the murder is in police 
terms solved  it was Pettersson, but the last little detail to nail him 100% 
was lacking. (Personally, I believe it was the mentally unstable drug-addict 
Pettersson, earlier convicted for a manslaughter. Makes sense.)

More parallels could be made. Both having a personal charisma. Both having a 
military career.Both travelling abroad, Kennedy in Europe before WWII, Palme in 
the US after the war. Both had their wife present when the deed took place. 
Both were assassinated on an open street. Etc.



--Ahrvid

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