October 17: The Minnesota Twins defeat the New York Mets 3-1 in the 1969 World Series.
October 21: Willy Brant becomes the Chancellor of West Germany.
October 31: The Halloween Massacre: 14 people are killed and 28 injured when a killer dressed as a clown strikes in Russellville, Arkansas.
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Walter Cronkite, CBS Evening News, November 1, 1969:
“Late last night in a little town in Arkansas, a man dressed as a clown struck terror, 14 slain and 28 injured.”
Victim:
“All I just saw is this man, dressed up as a clown, he walked out and said, ‘Trick or Treat!’ started shooting people. Little children. They were trying to have fun, but instead, they got brutally killed.”
Cronkite:
“Now the question remains, who? And why?”
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It was a very difficult day already for the President. He was standing with papers in his hands.
“From Russia, with hell!” he exclaimed as he threw the papers up in the air with disgust.
“You meth smoking monkey! Stop throwing those fucking papers everywhere! Pick up after your self. Hell in an hand-basket!”
Muskie walks into the room like someone not having their morning coffee.
“Bring me back to my glory days! Bring me back to when I was free.”
“Edmund, I’m pretty sure you are the meth smoking monkey.”
“Shut the fuck up.”
The President then sat back down at his deck, with the Vice President on the other end.
“Gun control?” asked the President.
“I don’t give a shit about gun control.”
Keep in mind that this is at 10:00 in the morning and Muskie just woke up.
“Drink some coffee. You probably are more of like a meth inhaling hippo.”
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November 3: President Kennedy expresses support for a “Department of Peace” during a speech in Atlanta.
November 9: While trying to seize Alcatraz Island, Richard Oakes is shot and killed.
November 19: Pele scores his 1,000th goal.
November 25: President Kennedy and John Lennon meet at the White House.
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“Good afternoon, Mr. President.” said the man known to almost everyone on the planet, Mr. John Lennon.
“Very great honor to be able to meet a great musical genius.” Replied back the President.
“Nah, that’s Paul.” John said that a chuckle.
“Here, have a seat.”
The President offered him a seat. John plopped down on the couch.
“Now where the hell is that dude that you said that he doesn’t know who the Beatles are?”
Of course he was talking about the Vice President.
“Hey Edmund, you remember when you admitted on national television that you didn’t know who the Beatles were? Well I have one of them.”
“You’re the one who said that you were bigger than Jesus?” exclaimed the Vice President as walked into the Oval Office.
John let out a very nervous laugh as he got up to shake his hand.
“Been waiting a long time to see you Mr. Lennon.” softly spoke Edmund has he shook John’s hand.
“So how are you liking the job, Mr. President?” asked John when the Vice President took a seat.
“I lived the job for a few years whenever John was President (whenever Bobby was Attorney General), but actually being in the role, you’ve got to face the responsibilities, but you also have to face the honor of being President and also have fun with it.”
“Meanwhile, I once punched that motherfucker.” exclaimed Muskie, with him and the President sharing laughs.
John Lennon, of course, was trying to figure out if he was joking or not.
Of course he wasn’t joking. Edmund Muskie never lies.
“See, I was considering going into politics. If we ever split up. I swear we were close to killing each other about 50 times while making the White Album. I have a feeling that we are going to stay together until one of us dies, but that’s just me...”
A FEW HOURS LATER
“So you’re telling me that you guys had a chance to do Lord of the Rings but that motherfucker denied you guys?” exclaimed the Vice President about how John Lennon wanted to a movie adaptation about the famous J.R.R. Tolkien book.
“(Stanley) Kubrick was like, dude it’s so fucking big, the book is so immense.” John responded with that soft voice of his.
“Well that motherfucker did 2001: A Space Odyssey! If he says that he can’t do Lord of the Rings, there must be something crazy with him.” Muskie again exclaimed.
“He said that he was going to do something about Napoleon.”
“Of course.”
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