It is not often that Thanksgiving lands on the anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. It was 44 years ago today. I was in the narrow hall leading to the high school band room when the director popped out and said "the President's been shot!"
"You're kidding!" He wasn't. School let out a few minutes later as the formal announcement came over the loudspeakers. A lot of the next few days was spent in that same band room playing "Hail to the Chief" in preparation for a memorial assembly.
And a few days later came the first live-on-TV murder, as Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald.
I've seen the runs of the Zapruder film on the internet. I still think he was hit from the front, and that the real perpetrator went free. I have a law enforcement friend who is still convinced that the CIA was responsible. This day may be more vivid to me than 9/11, when I was quite grown up and quite used to seeing malice and mayhem on television.
We see so much synthetic violence that the impact is diluted. This is a Bad thing.
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I've decided that Lee Harvey Oswald was deeply involved in this murder, but he had at least one other person helping him out. That right there makes it a conspiracy. There is no way Oswald did this deed all by himself...
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