President Kennedy '63 Assassination

By L E Ceric

In 1984 I had created a short film in which I juxtaposed various street name signs to create the idea that they were all connected to significant events in America, as well as Australia. Things like Bradey Street being opposite Lorraine Street on Princes Road, supposedly significant as Republican Bradey and The Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jn was shot and killed; I got that idea from a Bob Dylan song, Princes on the steeple while all the pretty people think they got it made. The DVD of the film was stolen from my place at St Peters, along with a number of other items including a letter I'd got recently from Kennedy's secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg. Prior to that Easter 1982 a postcard Allen Ginsberg sent me also went missing.From what I have read, South Australia was a place similar in many details to some Soviet type states, where the government owned almost everything, and estate taxes were extremely high, meaning that any personal property owned was almost all taken away. Electricity generation was done by the state, water supply likewise. Trains, buses and trams were owned by the state, while a very large number of schools also were financed by it. The main exceptions to this rule were the churches, which owned property and had rudimentary social services. Voting was compulsory and an election campaign would usually run for no more than 2 or 3 weeks once announced.A new car making factory was established locally in 1954 and was opened by The Queen; it manufactured Holden cars and over the years they were enormously improved having features such as automatic transmission, heating of the interior, more powerful and efficient engines. Because the facility was such a national success, other car makers moved here and started up their own production facilities. Mitsubishi was one example.The state Premier was Thomas Playford and he was active from 1938 to 1965. His party was therefore in power throughout the second world war years.It was still very much an "apartheid" system, and various other social life functions were carried out in very limited ways, such as bars and pubs being closed at 5pm. The population had increased with post WW2 migration and the state built many small houses and flats to accommodate mostly the people who'd lived here from before WW2, as well as the British migrants in particular. Perhaps the only claim to fame for the state was how Professor Karl Marx, the founder of Socialism, wrote about specific areas, such as the South East where an extinct volcano was situated. Plus a huge real estate boom came into effect as well, causing councils and the state to rezone lands, so that housing and office buildings could be built. It was estimated the population increased by more than 350,000 immediately after the war, and since 1980 has again increased by over 600,000, again providing a motive for privatization of state property and services, helping to create a new "class" of wealthy entrepreneurs. Morality also changed. One famous "homosexual" was from the South East, named Robert Helpman, who was a ballet dancer later on knighted by the King. Homosexuality, of course, was illegal until the 70s when the Labor party was in power under a closet gay Premier Don Dunstan. Helpman lived two streets down from me in the 60s, that is he kept a small mansion house opposite Jasper Street, to which he returned when he wasn't elsewhere dancing or making movies.Bars and pubs were allowed to stay open until 10pm and then some even had unlimited opening hours. While in USA an Intelligence man Casper Weinberger was moving into higher and higher placements within the Republican party.Homosexuality was decriminalized, and what amounted to an apartheid system was dismantled so far as it's most brutish aspects went. However, the state a print works which published over 800,000 books, eg The Godfather, distributed to places like South Africa, UK, USA, Argentina, helping support right wing politics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08RRJYSQY
• ISBN13: 9798588835787
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"