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carmencita ago

Frank Sinatra was also featured in the movie The Manchurian Candidate. Another message? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056218/

The plot centers on the Korean War veteran Raymond Shaw, the progeny of a prominent political family. Shaw was a prisoner of war during the conflict in Korea and while being held was brainwashed by his captors. After his discharge back into civilian life, he becomes an unwitting assassin involved in an international communist conspiracy. Officials from China and the Soviet Union employ Shaw as a sleeper agent in an attempt to subvert and take over the United States government.

Another movie imitating real life? Sounds familiar.

shewhomustbeobeyed ago

Even earlier than that he was in a movie called Suddenly 1954.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suddenly_(1954_film) - https://archive.is/3z4g9

The story concerns a small California town whose tranquility is shattered when the train of the President of the United States is scheduled to pass through the town, and a hired assassin and his henchmen take over a home as a perfect location to assassinate the president.

carmencita ago

OMG. Thank You. I had forgotten that. I have seen it but not for quite some time. People watching these movies never realize messages being sent. I used to think they were kind of laughing at us while telling us what they will do, but possibly they are messages to their "partners in crime" to inform them what is coming. That was a frightening picture for me.

shewhomustbeobeyed ago

I kinda always thought it was a veiled threat aimed at Eisenhower. He then tried to warn us about the military/industrial complex when he left office. A bit before my time, I think I was like 3 yrs. old when he died.

carmencita ago

Intelligent analogy and may be so correct! Yes He did warn about the MIC. Kennedy threatened: I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds. Then he was assassinated a couple years later.