10-10-2010, 04:31 AM
Some years ago, in conversation with George Michael Evica, I opined that what he memorably termed that first "terrible sound" in Dealey Plaza was intended to provoke "cognitive dissonance" among those present.
More than a simple distraction, a loud and ominous noise akin to that which witnesses subliminally feared would occur during the motorcade was certain to blur perceptions for that brief but all-important timespan in which unclouded observations might have proved fatal for the conspiracy.
Over the intervening decades, that "terrible sound" has recurred in many forms -- audible and otherwise.
More than a simple distraction, a loud and ominous noise akin to that which witnesses subliminally feared would occur during the motorcade was certain to blur perceptions for that brief but all-important timespan in which unclouded observations might have proved fatal for the conspiracy.
Over the intervening decades, that "terrible sound" has recurred in many forms -- audible and otherwise.