In memoriam: President John F. Kennedy

[Zen Democrat]

82. Thanks ailsagirl. JFK's murder became the dividing line in the lives of a generation. I was 15.

I haven't gotten over it. I do remember that after Jack Ruby killed Oswald, nobody and I mean nobody thought the lone gunman theory was plausible. When the Warren Commission Report came out it was kind of shocking that they had wrapped it up so neatly with NO addiitional information that didn't square with one loner kills the president in view of the Dallas police department, and this loner killer is himself killed by a loser strip-joint operator, this time in the basement of the Dallas jail handcuffed to a couple of policemen. People were distracted to accept the "let's just agree to accept that we'll never know the truth" theory. There are holes in everybody's stories. Sets of "facts" that cannot be reconciled. What bothers me are the slick presentations that commercial media put forth to false-educate young people about this-or-that meaningless aspect of conspiracy theory, but ignoring the weight of evidence that this was blatant and clumsy political assassination. Clumsy enough that it received a clumsy cover-up as well. I trust that forensic advances will eventually reveal more information. In the meantime, that White House portrait says it all. I hope we have younger generations of people who are not willing to get over it, or let it go.