Re-posted by N.S.
[Previously:
[“The Treason of the ‘Historians’ (Videos).”]
“THIS MOVIE IS FOR YOU TO ENJOY, PLEASE NO POLITICAL COMMENTS. U.S. President Jordan Lyman (Fredric March) hopes to bring an end to the Cold War by signing a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets, much to the displeasure of the hawkish General James Scott (Burt Lancaster), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. When Scott’s aide, Martin ‘Jiggs’ Casey (Kirk Douglas) stumbles on shattering evidence that the General is plotting a coup to overthrow Lyman in seven days, ‘Jiggs’ alerts the President, setting off a dangerous race to thwart the takeover.”
“PLEASE NO POLITICAL COMMENTS,” unless they're reliably leftwing.
What a ridiculous advisory. This picture’s very existence was nothing, if not political. It was part of a conspiracy to ensure Jack Kennedy’s re-election.
Crypto-communist Kirk Douglas produced Seven Days through his front-man, Edward Lewis, who had previously produced Spartacus (1960) and Lonely are the Brave (1962) for him.
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3 months ago
“Filmed in the summer of 1963. One of the last films JFK saw pre release at the White House. He said ‘You don't know how damn close we came.’”
@brober If Jack Kennedy really said that, he was lying through his teeth. We could only have come close to a rightwing putsch, if a conspiracy had already been hatched. But no such conspiracy ever existed, except in the minds of communists.
Although Kennedy was not a communist, and was considered an anti-Communist, he was far from the clearest of thinkers. One possibility is that he never made that statement. Another is that he said it but was just bs’ing.
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"Although Kennedy was not a communist, and was considered an anti-Communist, he was far from the clearest of thinkers."
JFK on most occasions was not the most clear-headed of thinkers he was quite often heavily sedated and on analgesics for pain because of his back injury he even went to Summit conference with Khrushchev in a doped up state
This comes up in our friend Alan J. Levine's book on the Cuban Missile Crisis which I reviewed here a year or so ago. Levine wrote on page 48:
"Kennedy became so hostile to the military that he encouraged making a film version of the popular novel, Seven Days in May, which dealt with an attempted military coup against the government."
"This was an amazing action, particularly from a president who had professed to regard CIVIL RIGHTS DEMONSTRATIONS as an intolerable embarrassment to the United States, or to him, in international affairs."
David In TN: Regarding JFK's supposed comment above, he may have been BSing, a favorite pastime of his. It may have been another of what Alan J. Levine called "his fabulations."
Kirk Douglas was reported to have raped 17-year-old Natalie Wood, according to her sister Lana https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/11/natalie-wood-was-raped-by-kirk-douglas-her-sister-alleges-in-a-new-book. Also a minor annoyance for this reader of Douglas' autobiography: he complains about a rabbi who in 1954 refused to conduct a marriage ceremony for the actor and his gentile fiancée, Anne Buydens. The nerve of that rabbi!
Jigs the Marine needs a high and tight haircut Kirk Douglas's hair too long a colonel on top of it man was out of uniform
There used to be a famous cartoon called Jiggs I doubt that that could even be shown as even in cartoon anymore will be so offensive
"he complains about a rabbi who in 1954 refused to conduct a marriage ceremony for the actor and his gentile fiancée, Anne Buydens. The nerve of that rabbi!"
Correct Orthodox rabbis if that was what the rabbi was do not ordain interreligious marriages
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