FBI taped RWNJ who said JFK would be shot by sniper, patsy set up for blame (9 November 1963)

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12. I was just a six year old kid when he died,

but the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite was on every night as I was growing up. As the bodies piled up, John, Bobby, MLK, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X you would have had to be a dullard not to see a pattern.

In eighth grade I had the world's worst history/social studies teacher. After exams we went to the auditorium to see the Disney film "Tonka" that was supposed to teach us about Custer's Last Stand. When Custer went down the auditorium erupted in applause. She marched our class out of there and tore us a new one, telling us what a "great American hero" Custer was. Pretty bad when 12 year olds watching Disney knew better.

I was a super shy book worm, it set me on the path of reading real history. I had a big sister who had a very eclectic taste in books and one hell of a reading list. "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" and "God is Red" were both on it. From there it was "Peoples' History,"" Howard Zinn, and "Lies My Teacher Told Me." That was when I was below 18. A few years back I read Tim Weiner's history of both the CIA and the FBI, chilling, but at that point, not one bit surprising to me. Another really terrific one was "Chinese Mirage," James Bradley. The abject failure of our Chinese policy is actually pretty embarrassing.

So yeah, that thread of ignorance through out our history that Isaac Asimov observed? Scares the living hell out of me.