Thirty years after President John Kennedy's assassination, it's no easier to accept the idea that a loser like Lee Harvey Oswald committed the crime of hte century all by himself with a $12.78 mail-order rifle and a $7.17 scope. Yet even though two-thousand-plus books and films about the episode have been made, there is not credible evidence to contradict the Warren Commission finding that "the shots which killed President Kennedy and wounded Governor Connally were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald" and that "Oswald acted alone."
After all these years, it's time to accept the conclusion. The nation pays a heavy price for the chronic doubts and mistrust. Confidence in the government has declined. Participation in the voting process has steadily slid downward. The national appetite for wild theories encourages peddlers to persist. Evil is never easy to accept. In the case of JFK, the sooner we let it go, the better.
2006-10-31
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