Apr
22
2004
For some reason I have become enamored lately with Studebakers. I think this fascination started around December when I saw a picture of a 50s era Studebaker Commander and was in awe with the styling of the car. It wasn’t the first time I had seen one it just seem to be the first time that I appreciated the looks of models other than the Hawk.
Anyway it got me looking at The Official Website of the Studebaker Museum and reading this history of the company. Studebaker ceased production at its South Bend, Indiana facility in 1963, the same year as the introduction of the Avanti, and ceased production in its Ontario facility in 1966. I need to do a little more research on the subject. I’d like to know who now owns the Studebaker trademark, if anyone. What happens to a company after it ceases to exist?
Nov
21
2003
Last night I watched the ABC News special on the death of John F. Kennedy. The show did a real good job of showing that the single bullet theory that has been the brunt of so many jokes is accurate and should be considered fact. The only question that wasn’t answered for me, wasn’t even addressed is the discreprencies in the descriptions of President Kennedy’s head wound.
In several accounts that I’ve heard there was an exit wound in the back of President Kennedy’s head. If this is the case then I can’t see how he could have been shot from behind. The Zapruder film doesn’t show him turning around and looking back at the Book Depository.
Still, after seeing the 3D model that was used and the view from the sniper scope as the shots were fired I have to say that Lee Harvey Oswald had to have been one of the best shots alive to have fired off those three shots as fast as he did and hit where he hit.
Apr
07
2003
I haven’t double checked the facts presented by this site but it’s worth reading through. Some of the stuff I knew but there are a lot of little items about the Viet Nam War that I just took as fact because I kept hearing them. This is causing me to take a new look at what I thought I knew.
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