Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 22, 2011
Transcript:
Of the 75 trillion cells that make up your body- 25% of them are red blood cells! A piece of glass that had been previously shattered during a a 2001 earthquake was the only object broken at the National Air Traffic Controllers Assn headquarters during an earthquake on the US East Coast in August, 2011! When US President John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963, it wasn't a federal crime for someone to assassinate a president.
i_am_the_jam almost 13 years ago
Well, I sure hope it wasn’t a misdemeanor… :P
Aussie Down Under almost 13 years ago
Stress fracture from original earthquake? Why would you keep a broken piece of glass for 10 years and why think to submit the story? Slow news day or too much time to kill?
upanddown17 almost 13 years ago
Rest in Peace, J.F.K.
roscoedog55 almost 13 years ago
Tragedy is a form of art based on human suffering that offers its audience pleasure. Most cultures have developed forms that provoke this paradoxical response.e.g. See Kennedy family.
Gator007 almost 13 years ago
JFK was a great president. they ought add his facd to Mount Rushmore.
suzleigh almost 13 years ago
JFK was a good president, but not great. He and Johnson pushed the US into Vietnam, he gave the ok for the Bay of Pigs fiasco (which strengthened the revolution in Cuba), and he was a world-class womanizer. He was not responsible for any major legislation; however, he did promote civil rights and the space program. It would have been interesting to see what he could have accomplished, but in retrospect, Vietnam would have probably overshadowed his tenure. Nevertheless, RIP JFK… you were missed.
suzleigh almost 13 years ago
The glass was the only pane at the Sea-Tac (Seattle-Tacoma) ATCT that survived the 2001 6.8 Nisqually quake. The tower was replaced, but the pane was shipped to the NATCA HQ in DC.
chicken 33 almost 13 years ago
They say he discovered he was lied to about Bay of Pigs and was killed by CIA because he was going to bring advisors home and replace CIA with agency headed by his brother. Coast to Coast this morning program.
chicken 33 almost 13 years ago
Correction. Gull of Tonkin’ My bad.
Stephen Gilberg almost 13 years ago
Why bother to make it a federal offense? Murder will get you a very stiff sentence already.
daphne343 almost 13 years ago
iced tea almost 13 years ago
I was only 5 years old when President Kennedy was killed, but I remember it like yesterdayl My afternoon cartoons were interuppted and Walter Cronkite announced the tragedy. My mother,aunt, and cousins were shocked and crying. I felt bad,too. It’s ashame so much tragedy has touched the Kennedy family.
spooon almost 13 years ago
Intelligent design is scientifically unprovable, and everybody has their own specific number of brain cells in approximately that range. You might as well say that the number of continents on the planet being the same as the number of days in a week is proof of intelligent design.
chicken 33 almost 13 years ago
I was wrong about Gulf of Tonkin and a given Bush stole 2nd election and was in Dallas on that day of the assination but he was smarter than his 3rd cousin.
chicken 33 almost 13 years ago
A President is suppose to Country’s best. No way a father and son or brothers or a husband and wife could be.
currysteph Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Ah I see all the leftist atheist are a foot today…just goes to show THEY have no intelligence…yea like we all just came from a bunch of goo….now that’s real intelligence….sheese
leweclectic almost 13 years ago
This is in reply to a very vehement, anti-Kennedy, anti-democratic and anti-evolution/science commentary that appears not to be there anymore, but my commentary still stands.
God, through His’ Mother Nature evolved and gave us your our “Little Gray Cells” to use for many things; one was and is the ability to unravel the mysteries of Gods Mother Nature. Evolution was one of His mysteries that we now have a preponderance of evidence such that we can say with confidence that this is how He put in motion everything that is here today, you included. To slander evolution is to slander God. Further, as Christians you and others are taught to practice and use civility and decency, even when addressing people and/or issues to which you are diabolically opposed. So, with these facts in mind I do hope that, in the future, you will use your ‘little gray cells’ to remember and practice what it is to be a true Christian; that is one who speaks with civility and diplomacy when commenting and addressing other human beings and issues, one who engages their ‘little gray cells’ before speaking out—especially when that speech is so vehement and unsubstantiated—against ‘others’ and against Gods’ own design, and one that has given us, Homo Sapiens, the means to know Gods Mind.
Sirzanne almost 13 years ago
I could listen to you all day… swoon…
natureboyfig4 Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Really? I’m not ancient enough to remember, but I’m pretty sure Oswald got more than a ticket for it!
killerkaleb almost 13 years ago
oh mister john f kennedy was a great man i agree iced tea