JFK 44th Assassination Anniversary
Forty four years ago on November 22nd, our president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated at approximately 2pm Eastern standard time while riding in a motorcade in Texas.
A nation had lost its leader, its Camelot, its innocence. In a matter of 8 seconds, three shots were fired. Lee Harvey Oswald was in the school book depository, a perfect bead on the motorcade, three spent shell casings found on the floor. Oswald was soon located and arrested. He denied killing the president insisting he was arrested only on suspicion for the shooting of a police officer. Jack Ruby would soon silence Oswald.
A nation had lost its leader, its Camelot, its innocence. In a matter of 8 seconds, three shots were fired. Lee Harvey Oswald was in the school book depository, a perfect bead on the motorcade, three spent shell casings found on the floor. Oswald was soon located and arrested. He denied killing the president insisting he was arrested only on suspicion for the shooting of a police officer. Jack Ruby would soon silence Oswald.
Numerous eyewitnesses recounted that they saw rifle smoke and the crackle of a gun from a little grassy knoll right before the under pass on the path of the presidents motorcade. Many said they saw suspicious people lurking on the grassy knoll just seconds before the shots rang out that killed the president.
Still others claimed to have seen the elusive Umbrella man, Pickett fence man, Railroad man, Street sewer man, the three bums, and many other people that had clear shots at the motorcade.
Also, several hundred people reported that men in suits approached them mere minutes after the shooting asking questions on what they saw, if they had taken any photographs or videotape. These men identified themselves as secret service agents and quickly dissolved into the chaos of the crowd.
All the elements of a conspiracy were present. The Warren Commission, the committee elected to investigate the assassination and assess the facts, bungled the investigation at almost every turn. It seemed that the commission was directed to conclude that a single shooter fired all the shots that hit Kennedy and Connelly.
The terms, Grassy Knoll, Magic Bullet, and Back and to the left would become icons to the American culture.
Its been 41 years now and still millions of pages are written, hours upon hours of debates, news print, radio, TV, and the Internet keep the Kennedy assassination fresh in the hearts and minds of the American people, making ever sure that each and every new generation of Americans do not forget this terrible tragedy.
In time, perhaps another 40 years, the entire actual truth will finally see the light of day.
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