Meat Loaf

Meat Loaf, who tells us he is from Dallas, and 2 of his friends got stopped by a secret service agent on Stemmons freeway that wanted to go to Parkland

And now he is dead ... RIP Meat Loaf 


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbJCjmEd6oE

The Mickey Mantle bowling alley he referred to was located at Mockingbird and Harry Hines Blvd. So most likely, they would have gone south on Harry Hines Blvd. to reach Parkland. Depending on the traffic (and if he could change lanes and his car was the only one flagged down, it sounds like traffic was light), he could have made the trip in about 5 minutes. If the limo was unattended when he arrived it was probably between 12:45 and 1:00. So the timing checks out.

I didn’t think any Secret Service agents were deployed on the ground. I thought they all traveled with the motorcade.$100 Dollars in 1963 is equivalent to over $800 today.

Wonder who the senator from Illinois was.

http://www.metroplexing.com/2018/01/searching-for-mickey-mantle-bowling.html

Faroe Islander wrote:The five dollar bill ripped into three parts?
All I can say is, two outta three ain't bad.

Hey FI, good to see you pop in!

He really wasn't a full-on meatloaf at the time. Just a rissole*.

I'm no fan but a girlfriend wanted to go see him when he was touring. The concert sucked and our car got stolen.  


* An Aussie dish, similar to, but bigger than a meatball, and smaller than a meatloaf....

Wasn't a fan either but somehow had free tickets to a concert in about '79. Ended up two rows back from stage. Mesmerized the whole time by singer Karla DeVito's Betty Boop routine replete with revealing outfit. Meatloaf was there too.

Re the 'senator from Illinois', could this have been Democrat Paul Douglas - 'one of (Lyndon) Johnson's more vocal critics' according to Bobby Baker in 'Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator'? (https://www.econlib.org/archives/2013/01/great_moments_i_5.html)

Douglas was a natural JFK ally: strongly pro Civil Rights and key to getting Civil Rights legislation onto the statute books in 1957. There's an intriguing 2 Dec 1963 NY Times interview with Douglas headlined 'Douglas Critical of Dallas Police', but you need a subscription to read the full thing.

A further meander reveals that Douglas's wife, Dorothy, was questioned by HUAC in 1953 about alleged Communist sympathies. She pleaded the Fifth.

The other senator for Illinois was Everett Dirksen, a 'pragmatic Republican' who was also pro Civil Rights, despite being an ally of Joseph McCarthy. But then so was Bobby, so clearly no one's perfect.

No evidence that Douglas or Dirksen was in Dallas on the day, but it's not implausible.

As for Meatloaf, what a story. He would have been just sixteen at the time. Shame he ended up supporting Trump.

No shame neccesary unless he supported Biden or Killary...

Real question to him would be what did the SS agent look like.
He could have viewed photos of them and picked out the one.

Problem with everyones narrative is there was one SS Agent on the ground...

Lem Johns story is such a mess.
If only Meat had ID him itd be quite entertaining.

Cheers!
Ed

Sorry, but he was just another fabricator. He told two different versions of this stiory. In one to howard stern he claimed his car was commandeered by a secret service agent. In the other version an official stopped him from going inside the Emergency Dept. In one version he was with friends, in the other version he wss alone.

Other whoppers he told included picking up a hitch-hiking charles manson, with manson taking him to meet the beach boys, and in another story,  being hit on the head by a shotput tossed by a champion athlete , with the result being he could suddenly sing, where he could barely hit a note before.

He was a grossly overweight kid who got bullied at school and at home, and turned to living in a fantasy world. The difference between him and others in the same boat is that he fluked fame.

His stories about parkland and the secret service should have been buried with him.

As for his politics, who gives a shit? What killed him wss being an anti-vaxxer and they exist across the political spectrum.

Meat didnt loaf around when it came to stories thats for sure. Forest Gump should be envious.
He definitely was anti restrictions anti mask anti lockdown and did not like quaratine.
He stated he was frightened about covid and feared for his life but wasnt going to die by their rules.
If he was vaccinated or not and cause of death aren't confirmed.
RIP Loaf