Today is the 45th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's shooting in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald (and maybe some other people).. I usually discount conspiracy talk but when you look at the Zapruder film it's obvious that the 3rd shot came from the front. The thing that always bothered me about Oswald is he had to have been watched by the FBI or some other agency. A Marine who defects to the Soviet Union, get's mixed up with pro-Castro groups and even visits the USSR embassy in Mexico City that the CIA knew about. With that kind of track record today you would be whisked off to Gitmo or somewhere else.
"Seconds" by Human League
Abraham. Martin, John & Bobby
If you ever get a chance to tour the book depository you will be shocked to see just how close the street is as you look out the window. Witnesses saw Oswald kill Officer JD Tippett minutes after the assassination of JFK. He came to work that morning with a bag which he claimed to contain curtain rods, etc. etc. Forensic experts proved years ago that although JFK's head moves backward at the third shot, it was a normal reaction to a bullet hitting from the rear of the head. The fact that he was wearing a back brace that day prevented him from falling into the carseat in a normal fashion. Pepole find it difficult to accept that the ideals and hope of promise contained within one President can be taken away by a single misguided man--but this is in fact the case. The odds are very slim that a group of individuals can all keep their mouths shut when they commit a crime--someone would have shot (no pun intended) his mouth of over the years and this has not happened. There is of course, an entire industry which thrives on the JFK conspiracy and there is no reason to doubt that it shall go away anytime soon. Incidentally, the anniversary passed with nary a mention on the news outlets (print and tv). I can recall when the anniversary always had great coverage. As time passes, more and more people who were living at that time are going away and JFK will take his rightful place as one of our Good Presidents, but not the Great President that he had been previously ranked as. Nevertheless, he shall be remembered 100 years from now, simply for the tumultuous times in which he served. In the summer of '63 he proclaimed civil rights a moral issue and lost the South. He was in Texas the day of his death as he was in need of its Electoral votes; his act of putting principle above personal politics most certainly was his example of adding his own chapter to Profiles in Courgage. Bless You All.
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