Quote:
Originally posted by Davros:
C'mon you guys - everyone knows it was aliens that did it. Those Venusians have had it in for the Democrats from day 1  .
|
Actually, there was a second gunman who did it - a future version of John F. Kennedy from a parallel universe who didn't get assassinated, because the Red Dwarf crew accidently killed Lee Harvey Oswald when they travelled back in time in their search for curry, as they had run out of supplies 3 million years into the future. The Kennedy who survived however had driven the country into the ground because of one (mafia-boss married) mistress too many and ended up in prison (the mafia-blackmailed J. Edgar Hoover became president in 1965), and the USSR had won both the arms and the space race, resulting in all major US cities being evacuated out of fear for nuclear attacks; and the future from which the Red Dwarf crew came ceased to exist in effect. Because stopping their past selves from killing Oswald only worked by driving him to a different floor of the building from which Oswald was unable to actually kill the president (because of the angle), the Red Dwarf Crew had to figure out a different way to restore history and make sure Kennedy was assassinated properly, figuring you'd have a clear shot from behind the grassy knoll across the street; none of them however had a taste for pulling the trigger, so they went forward in time, saved John F. Kennedy from prison, explaining his role as a martyr in history, and dropped him with a sniper rifle behind the grassy knoll. So in effect, the real assassin of John F. Kennedy was, erm, John F. Kennedy.
God, I loved that show.
[ 11-20-2004, 06:03 PM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]