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BREAKING NEWS -- PRESIDENT AND MOTORCADE!!!

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:01 pm
by wx247
Just heard this on the radio... An "incident" has occured and secret service have drawn their guns while Bush is in Mississippi... this is initial info. and may change. I will try to keep you updated

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:06 pm
by wx247
Latest I have is that a car ran into the building where Bush had just finished speaking at. :o They have no reason to believe the driver was targeting the President.

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:08 pm
by wx247
Here is a report from the wires... A sigh of relief!

SOUTHAVEN, Miss. Nov. 1 — A car penetrated the security perimeter around the arena where President Bush was speaking Saturday and rammed the building. Authorities swarmed the vehicle.
The president's motorcade was still parked at the DeSoto Civic Center, and Bush was preparing to leave the arena where he had given the first of four campaign speeches scheduled for Saturday.

Fewer than five minutes after the car crashed at a slow speed into a loading dock area at the arena, Bush's motorcade left for his next stop, in Paducah, Ky.

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:30 pm
by JetMaxx
Let's just hope and pray it was an accident and not an attempt on the President's life.

I've seen quite a few incidents in which someone accidently hit the gas instead of brake and ran into something...including once when my mother plowed through a chain link fence (and I was a terrified 8 year old riding in the back seat :o :o

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:34 pm
by StormCrazyIowan
LOL, the day after I got my license I drove my brother to the Kwik Shop and instead of hitting the brake I hit the gas and went up on the sidewalk and almost right into the building!!! Now I have a reputation for being a bad driver..... :( I am better, promise!!!

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:35 pm
by Josephine96
Well.. I was always told growing through high school.. that every president who was elected in a year ending in zero has either been killed, had a threat made against there life or died in office. Lets' just see what happens.

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:38 pm
by Josephine96
I also just read that story off the website for the Minneapolis newspaper. It's almost downright sick that the Fox,Msnbc and CNN {the 3 news websites I pay most attention too} don't even say a word..

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:39 pm
by wx247
I know that CNN did mention it on tv. So did MSNBC... I flipped onto FOX figuring that they would and either they had already mentioned or did not mention it yet. The news websites are a little slower at getting the info. out.

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:41 pm
by Josephine96
Wx- they are probably waiting to do a "FOX NEWS ALERT" lol {fox news alert theme plays} lol

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 12:43 pm
by Lindaloo
Actually he is supposed to be in Gulfport. I am headed out now to see him and hear him speak. I have reserved seating. ;)

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 2:00 pm
by Colin
Wow...scary! :o But seeing that it was at a slow speed, I don't think it was aimed at the President...maybe an old person? :D

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 2:36 pm
by BEER980
Josephine96 wrote:Well.. I was always told growing through high school.. that every president who was elected in a year ending in zero has either been killed, had a threat made against there life or died in office. Lets' just see what happens.

Not entirely true. I would bet that all presidents have had threats against their life.

Presidents Elected or Re-Elected in a Zero Year
1820 James Monroe
1840 William H Harrison *
1860 Abraham Lincoln *
1880 James Garfield *
1900 William McKinley *
1920 Warren Harding *
1940 Franklin D Roosevelt *
1960 John F Kennedy *
1980 Ronald Reagan
2000 George W Bush
* died in office

Presidents who Died in Office
James A Garfield
Warren Harding
William Henry Harrison
John F Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
William McKinley
Franklin D Roosevelt
Zachary Taylor

Presidents who were Assassinated
James Garfield Washington DC, July 2, 1881 (died September 19)
John F Kennedy Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963
Abraham Lincoln Washington DC, April 14, 1865 (died April 15)
William McKinley Buffalo, NY, September 6, 1901 (died September 14)

Presidents who Escaped Assassination Attempts
Andrew Jackson Washington DC, January 30, 1835
Gerald R Ford Sacramento CA, September 6, 1975
San Francisco CA, September 22, 1975
Ronald Reagan Washington DC, March 30,1981
Franklin D Roosevelt Miami Florida, February 15, 1933 %
Theodore Roosevelt Milwaukee, October 14, 1912 +
Harry S Truman Washington DC, November 1, 1950 *

% Whilst President-elect

+ After he had left the Presidency. He was shot on his way to
a rally for his Progressive (Bull Moose) Party. He delivered
a speech for 90 minutes with the bullet still in his chest.

* Two Puerto Rican nationalists shot and killed one police officer
and injured another guarding Blair House with intent to assassinate
President Truman who was living there while the White House was
under repair. He himself was not actually shot at.

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:01 pm
by JetMaxx
StormCrazyIowan wrote:LOL, the day after I got my license I drove my brother to the Kwik Shop and instead of hitting the brake I hit the gas and went up on the sidewalk and almost right into the building!!! Now I have a reputation for being a bad driver..... :( I am better, promise!!!


Here's a true story Jacki....only two days after recieving my drivers license in 1978, I tried to swat a bee in my car while driving, ran off the road and plowed through a stop sign and neighbor's mailbox :o :o

I was mortified and embarrassed....but it taught me a very valuable lesson: always concentrate and keep my eyes on the road. In 25 years since, I've never made that mistake again.

Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2003 3:14 pm
by GalvestonDuck
Josephine96 wrote:Well.. I was always told growing through high school.. that every president who was elected in a year ending in zero has either been killed, had a threat made against there life or died in office. Lets' just see what happens.


Just to add a bit more to Beer's reply --

http://wovoca.com/prophecy-shawnee-tecu ... idents.htm

I'd copy and paste it here, but it's awfully long and it's copy-protected so I can't.