November 22nd

So ever since I was a kid, I have always believed in the original conspiracy theory - that of the assasination of John F. Kennedy. As an impressionable teen, and because of the myriad of books and data that I was able to get my hands on over the years, plus the fact that the Warren Report is a major piece of crap, it has always been easier for me to subscribe to the notion that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed the most unfortunate creature on the face of the earth, and was the biggest patsy that ever graced us with his presence. And besides, it's just not sexy to think of a cool, young president being killed by a loser.

I was so pissed when Ollie Stoner released "JFK". He took snippets of facts that made sense for, at least, a possibility of a conspiracy (by definition meaning more than one person is involved) and turned them into fodder for a piece resembling comic theatre. I mean, according to this film - the only persons that did NOT know about the conspiracy were LA D.A. Jim Garrison and J.F.K. himself. At least I don't remember anyone in the movie saying J.F.K. was involved in his own assasination...

So for about 20 years, I was more than happy to disbelieve the single bullet theory. Hey - it's still a piece of crap! And being an avid gun-guy (Ahem! I am a southern boy!) I know how difficult it is to hit a moving target with 3 shots in 6 seconds. And there were soooooo many witnesses saying the shots came from more than one place. And Lee Harvey was indeed sipping a coke in the employee lounge just minutes afterward. And how could they lose the brain? And the autopsy WAS a joke! Read the notes, sometime!

But I just keep going back to this: If we can't torture prisoners in a foreign country without getting busted, how could this secret be kept for so long? Our government is, at best, inept. As much as it would sort of be cool to know they could pull shit like that off, we all know it's impossible.

Well, 8 more years to go until the 50th anniversary. Maybe - just maybe - someone will make a deathbed confession and we'll find out that it was some rich oilman with just a few people involved and the government - instead of being a part of it - just blew it! Sort of like the Arubans and Natalee Holloway!

By the way - in 8 years the "rest" of the "evidence" that is "sealed"... I mean sealed away in the archives will become "public" again. It's just not as exciting to me anymore...

By the way - the picture above is (of course) from the most famous 8mm filmstrip ever. Abraham Zapruder bought his 8mm camera for the express purpose of filming the motorcade in Dealy Plaza. After the horror of it smote him, he sold the film and put the camera away.

By the same token, this picture was taken by a park ranger (whose name, unfortunately, I have forgotten). The brothers asked him if he would help document their experiment. He had never used a camera before. He also never took another picture for the rest of his life. Pretty cool. And coincidental... Hmmmmm...