THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
November 3, 2013
What if JFK Survived? The Paracast Explores the Implications
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Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: It's one of the greatest "what ifs" of all time. What if John Kennedy had survived the ambush in Dallas, Texas? What then? That's the subject of a fascinating new novel, just out in time for the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. It's called, "Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?" and it's full of twists and surprises. The author is a friend of The Paracast, Bryce Zabel, who last dipped his toe into the alternate JFK timestream when he created NBC's Emmy winning "Dark Skies" TV series.
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
Bryce Zabel’s Site: http://brycezabel.com
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
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Living in an Alternate Universe
By Gene Steinberg
One theory about UFOs has it that perhaps our visitors come from another universe, one that coexists with ours, but is separated somehow. I compare it to different channels on a TV set; well, at least in occupying what appears to be the very same space.
Another theory attributes UFOs to time travelers, people from the future who return to our time for reasons best known to themselves. Perhaps they want to change critical events that impact them directly, or they just want to observe and maybe hang out for a spell.
Certainly time travel has been used as a dramatic gimmick in books, comics, the movies and TV. So we had the crew of the Enterprise, in the 1986 film, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” traveling back to 20th century San Francisco in order to retrieve a pair of humpback whales and return them to their own time. This action was necessary to prevent a global catastrophe.
All right, the plot line seemed strange, that unstoppable aliens required the song of the whales to reassure them that everything was all right on Earth, and thus they could leave without destroying us. Logical? Well, the movie, as directed by Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, was fun and is still regarded as one of the best in the series.
In the Canadian TV show, “Continuum,” which is carried on the SyFy channel in the U.S., the protagonist, a police officer portrayed by the fetching Rachel Nichols, enters a time portal to prevent a band of terrorists from wreaking havoc in our own time. The show is entertaining, and cleverly juxtaposes people and events that occur in both timeframes.
Now the very possibility of time travel can create all sorts of potential complications. Would even the slightest interference in the past somehow cause a tidal wave of events that impacts the future? Or is everything preordained and thus what you do in the past can’t cause any harm, because it’s all meant to be. After all, time itself is an illusion.
The possibilities of time travel and alternate universes have been ripe sources for fiction, or just playing with your imagination. What would happen, therefore, if someone went back in time and attempted to prevent certain tragedies of the past; in effect to alter history? Would someone be able to protect Lincoln or Kennedy from being assassinated? What about John Lennon, the Beatle, who was tragically murdered by a crazed fan in 1980? Had he survived, would the Fab Four have eventually reunited? What if bandmate George Harrison had been given medical care, using technology from the future, to keep him from dying from cancer at the age of 58?
And why not take out such terrible dictators as Hitler and Stalin before they come to power? Or would others have risen instead to perform their evil deeds? To take this to its logical conclusion, what if one of your far-off descendants murdered someone? Would someone attempt to go back through time and terminate you with extreme prejudice to change the gene pool?
With the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy approaching, authors have naturally wondered what might have happened had he survived somehow. One possible solution would be to send someone back through time to stop Lee Harvey Oswald, who whoever might have been responsible, from succeeding. Another possibility is simply to imagine an alternate time line, where the murder attempt did not succeed.
So we have author and producer Bryce Zabel’s new book, “Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?” The plot is implicit from the title, and Zabel cleverly infuses the known facts of the time into a compelling tale about how things might have turned out. Without giving you any spoilers, this is definitely not a tale about a sweetness and light alternate universe. Clearly, the young chief executive would have confronted serious obstacles in completing not just his first term, but in running for reelection. What’s more, in the more restrictive atmosphere of the 1960s, his extracurricular activities would have presented some serious potential land mines that would have made the predilections of Bill Clinton decades later seem tame by comparison.
Certainly the Kennedy assassination has been a matter of endless fascination. Even though the Warren Commission concluded it was all the act of a lone gunman, there has been a tremendous amount of skepticism that has fueled years and years of speculation about what might have really happened. In 1978, a Select Committee on Assassinations was formed by the U.S. House of Representatives in order to probe the deaths of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Their conclusion? Well, they assured us that it wasn’t someone in the U.S. government, or the Soviet Union, but the death of JFK was, they reported, the result of a conspiracy. That’s where it ended. The alleged conspirators have never been brought to justice, and thus the speculation continues.
Indeed, when you consider the most significant conspiracies of our time, the death of JFK is probably the most infamous. Of course, there’s always the Roswell UFO crash, and some might include 9/11 on that list.
Certainly if you want a simple answer to a major historical event, perhaps a tragedy, a single act of a single crazed individual might be comforting. It might even be true, but there is something eternally tantalizing about considering a more elaborate explanation, that what seems to be a lone act was the end result of a byzantine plot involving a number of unknown perpetrators.
Sure, it can be a load of fun to speculate about such possibilities, and some of those possibilities may even be true. But imagine if someone actually came here from the future, altered a current event, and returned. Would that act, whatever it might be, simply erase our memories of what originally occurred? Or would there be that nagging feeling that something different happened, but you just can’t put a finger on the actual details?
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November 3, 2013
What if JFK Survived? The Paracast Explores the Implications
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Why It's Important for You to Donate to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough to pay your humble hosts decent wages. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able to help fill the gap, if you can, to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch and utility bills. No contribution is too small (or too large
. It’s easy to send a donation. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also aDonate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com. And if you’ve had a problem getting to our Donate screen, please try again. We just fixed a serious PayPal access problem, and it should wor k properly now.Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: It's one of the greatest "what ifs" of all time. What if John Kennedy had survived the ambush in Dallas, Texas? What then? That's the subject of a fascinating new novel, just out in time for the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. It's called, "Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?" and it's full of twists and surprises. The author is a friend of The Paracast, Bryce Zabel, who last dipped his toe into the alternate JFK timestream when he created NBC's Emmy winning "Dark Skies" TV series.
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
Bryce Zabel’s Site: http://brycezabel.com
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
Sponsored Message: Don’t get ripped off when you need to liquidate your precious jewelry and silverware. Call Steve at Numis Gems at (480) 878-7678 and get the straight scoop!
Living in an Alternate Universe
By Gene Steinberg
One theory about UFOs has it that perhaps our visitors come from another universe, one that coexists with ours, but is separated somehow. I compare it to different channels on a TV set; well, at least in occupying what appears to be the very same space.
Another theory attributes UFOs to time travelers, people from the future who return to our time for reasons best known to themselves. Perhaps they want to change critical events that impact them directly, or they just want to observe and maybe hang out for a spell.
Certainly time travel has been used as a dramatic gimmick in books, comics, the movies and TV. So we had the crew of the Enterprise, in the 1986 film, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” traveling back to 20th century San Francisco in order to retrieve a pair of humpback whales and return them to their own time. This action was necessary to prevent a global catastrophe.
All right, the plot line seemed strange, that unstoppable aliens required the song of the whales to reassure them that everything was all right on Earth, and thus they could leave without destroying us. Logical? Well, the movie, as directed by Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, was fun and is still regarded as one of the best in the series.
In the Canadian TV show, “Continuum,” which is carried on the SyFy channel in the U.S., the protagonist, a police officer portrayed by the fetching Rachel Nichols, enters a time portal to prevent a band of terrorists from wreaking havoc in our own time. The show is entertaining, and cleverly juxtaposes people and events that occur in both timeframes.
Now the very possibility of time travel can create all sorts of potential complications. Would even the slightest interference in the past somehow cause a tidal wave of events that impacts the future? Or is everything preordained and thus what you do in the past can’t cause any harm, because it’s all meant to be. After all, time itself is an illusion.
The possibilities of time travel and alternate universes have been ripe sources for fiction, or just playing with your imagination. What would happen, therefore, if someone went back in time and attempted to prevent certain tragedies of the past; in effect to alter history? Would someone be able to protect Lincoln or Kennedy from being assassinated? What about John Lennon, the Beatle, who was tragically murdered by a crazed fan in 1980? Had he survived, would the Fab Four have eventually reunited? What if bandmate George Harrison had been given medical care, using technology from the future, to keep him from dying from cancer at the age of 58?
And why not take out such terrible dictators as Hitler and Stalin before they come to power? Or would others have risen instead to perform their evil deeds? To take this to its logical conclusion, what if one of your far-off descendants murdered someone? Would someone attempt to go back through time and terminate you with extreme prejudice to change the gene pool?
With the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy approaching, authors have naturally wondered what might have happened had he survived somehow. One possible solution would be to send someone back through time to stop Lee Harvey Oswald, who whoever might have been responsible, from succeeding. Another possibility is simply to imagine an alternate time line, where the murder attempt did not succeed.
So we have author and producer Bryce Zabel’s new book, “Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?” The plot is implicit from the title, and Zabel cleverly infuses the known facts of the time into a compelling tale about how things might have turned out. Without giving you any spoilers, this is definitely not a tale about a sweetness and light alternate universe. Clearly, the young chief executive would have confronted serious obstacles in completing not just his first term, but in running for reelection. What’s more, in the more restrictive atmosphere of the 1960s, his extracurricular activities would have presented some serious potential land mines that would have made the predilections of Bill Clinton decades later seem tame by comparison.
Certainly the Kennedy assassination has been a matter of endless fascination. Even though the Warren Commission concluded it was all the act of a lone gunman, there has been a tremendous amount of skepticism that has fueled years and years of speculation about what might have really happened. In 1978, a Select Committee on Assassinations was formed by the U.S. House of Representatives in order to probe the deaths of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Their conclusion? Well, they assured us that it wasn’t someone in the U.S. government, or the Soviet Union, but the death of JFK was, they reported, the result of a conspiracy. That’s where it ended. The alleged conspirators have never been brought to justice, and thus the speculation continues.
Indeed, when you consider the most significant conspiracies of our time, the death of JFK is probably the most infamous. Of course, there’s always the Roswell UFO crash, and some might include 9/11 on that list.
Certainly if you want a simple answer to a major historical event, perhaps a tragedy, a single act of a single crazed individual might be comforting. It might even be true, but there is something eternally tantalizing about considering a more elaborate explanation, that what seems to be a lone act was the end result of a byzantine plot involving a number of unknown perpetrators.
Sure, it can be a load of fun to speculate about such possibilities, and some of those possibilities may even be true. But imagine if someone actually came here from the future, altered a current event, and returned. Would that act, whatever it might be, simply erase our memories of what originally occurred? Or would there be that nagging feeling that something different happened, but you just can’t put a finger on the actual details?
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