Sixty years ago today

[Anonymous]

JFK was murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas.

[Anonymous]

And there should be zero doubt at this point that it was Oswald.

I’ve stood in THE window (not the mock up in the museum one floor below, but the actual window) and my 78 year old mother could’ve made that shot easily.

This was not some great feat of marksmanship.

[Anonymous]

It was three shots in six seconds. Read Five Days in November and you’ll have no doubt.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in the Dallas area. A friend’s mother had been an ER nurse in that hospital when JFK was brought in.

Once, when the conversation turned to presidents, and him in particular, she made a comment about that day that “there are things that nobody knows, things that nobody will ever know.” I didn’t understand the significance of her cryptic words at the time, and by the time I did, we had moved and I had lost contact.

I don’t know that her secrets had anything to do directly with the assassination, but the possibilities are endless. Was there something pointing to a conspiracy? Did Bobby and LBJ have an argument? Did JFK have VD, an extra toe, dandruff?

I have no way of knowing whether she actually knew something significant or just felt that whatever she knew was significant by definition. But for me, the enduring controversy about his death will always be compounded by the question of those “things that would never be known”, and wondering if we know them yet.

[Anonymous]

I know most people here were not born then, yet it is an event severed in the soul of this country.

[Anonymous]

Family legend has it that, as a toddler, I spilled my milk all over the living room at the exact moment Jack Ruby killed Oswald on live TV, so my mom, grandma, and sister were distracted and thus missed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the Dallas area. A friend’s mother had been an ER nurse in that hospital when JFK was brought in.

Once, when the conversation turned to presidents, and him in particular, she made a comment about that day that “there are things that nobody knows, things that nobody will ever know.” I didn’t understand the significance of her cryptic words at the time, and by the time I did, we had moved and I had lost contact.

I don’t know that her secrets had anything to do directly with the assassination, but the possibilities are endless. Was there something pointing to a conspiracy? Did Bobby and LBJ have an argument? Did JFK have VD, an extra toe, dandruff?

I have no way of knowing whether she actually knew something significant or just felt that whatever she knew was significant by definition. But for me, the enduring controversy about his death will always be compounded by the question of those “things that would never be known”, and wondering if we know them yet.

My boomer mom said the same thing to me on January 6!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the Dallas area. A friend’s mother had been an ER nurse in that hospital when JFK was brought in.

Once, when the conversation turned to presidents, and him in particular, she made a comment about that day that “there are things that nobody knows, things that nobody will ever know.” I didn’t understand the significance of her cryptic words at the time, and by the time I did, we had moved and I had lost contact.

I don’t know that her secrets had anything to do directly with the assassination, but the possibilities are endless. Was there something pointing to a conspiracy? Did Bobby and LBJ have an argument? Did JFK have VD, an extra toe, dandruff?

I have no way of knowing whether she actually knew something significant or just felt that whatever she knew was significant by definition. But for me, the enduring controversy about his death will always be compounded by the question of those “things that would never be known”, and wondering if we know them yet.

My boomer mom said the same thing to me on January 6!

Well, ok there LWNJ.