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Seth Meyers: What Roy Moore and Donald Trump Have in Common

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam9/27/2017 9:28:50 pm PDT

re: #65 mmmirele

I’ll be honest, I’m not much of a fan of the pictures in Playboy. However, there is this:

In the summer of 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner disappeared in Mississippi. And they couldn’t be found. The assumption (true) was that they were dead. Comedian Dick Gregory got an idea:

stillcrew.com

And yes, this helped to break the case wide open. After 44 days, the bodies of Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner were found. If you read the article, you’ll find that the FBI was worse than no help at all, and there were lots of rumors going around that the three had run off to Cuba or worse. Finding the bodies allowed the reality of what happened to sink in.

So thank you and Rest In Power, Hugh Hefner.

J. Edgar Hoover was in charge then, and he believed anything contrary to the status quo was a Communist plot. After watching the Ken Burns Vietnam documentary, I figured it was Hoover telling Johnson and Nixon that all those anti-war protests were funded by the Commies.

Now, we have Russians actually screwing around with our elections, and no one in Washington seems especially incensed. How times have changed.