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From dallasnews.com: Editorial: 50th anniversary of JFK assassination deserves a silent dignity
http://www.dallasnew...ent-dignity.ece
Published: 02 November 2011 11:34 PM
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Dealey Plaza, on almost any other day, is a quiet place. Oaks overlook Elm Street, one of the three downtown thoroughfares that squeeze under the Triple Underpass. Cars swirl through on their way to Stemmons Freeway.
Tourists and the curious walk the sharp turn from Houston onto Elm, past the former Texas School Book Depository, up the grassy knoll, peering over the familiar picket fence.
Some pause at the taped "X" on Elm that marks a singular moment in history, the point at which an assassin's bullet killed President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
The plaza, dedicated as a National Historic Landmark in 1993, changes each year on Nov. 22. An anniversary brings out hundreds, even thousands. Some come to remember with reverence, others less so. That latter group unfortunately turns Dealey Plaza into an exhibitionistic carnival, with every conspiracy theory under the sun battling for attention with assorted oddballs, trinket vendors and crackpots.
Hey, it's America. People have a right.
Our hope, with the 50th anniversary of the darkest day in Dallas history a little more than two years off, is that they show some respect.
We're encouraged that the Sixth Floor Museum, dedicated to Kennedy's life and death, will fill a void and take over commemoration activities at Dealey Plaza. The Sixth Floor occupies the former book depository space and is named for the spot from which Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to have fired the fatal shots.
Whether you believe that really isn't the point anymore. Poll after poll shows significant numbers doubt that Oswald could have acted alone and instead believe that a conspiracy variously attributed to the CIA , the FBI, the Mafia, right-wing extremists, the military-industrial complex, anti-Castro Cubans, communists or fascists had to have killed such a consequential man.
It's America. Believe what you wish.
From dallasnews.com: Editorial: 50th anniversary of JFK assassination deserves a silent dignity
http://www.dallasnew...ent-dignity.ece
Published: 02 November 2011 11:34 PM
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Dealey Plaza, on almost any other day, is a quiet place. Oaks overlook Elm Street, one of the three downtown thoroughfares that squeeze under the Triple Underpass. Cars swirl through on their way to Stemmons Freeway.
Tourists and the curious walk the sharp turn from Houston onto Elm, past the former Texas School Book Depository, up the grassy knoll, peering over the familiar picket fence.
Some pause at the taped "X" on Elm that marks a singular moment in history, the point at which an assassin's bullet killed President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
The plaza, dedicated as a National Historic Landmark in 1993, changes each year on Nov. 22. An anniversary brings out hundreds, even thousands. Some come to remember with reverence, others less so. That latter group unfortunately turns Dealey Plaza into an exhibitionistic carnival, with every conspiracy theory under the sun battling for attention with assorted oddballs, trinket vendors and crackpots.
Hey, it's America. People have a right.
Our hope, with the 50th anniversary of the darkest day in Dallas history a little more than two years off, is that they show some respect.
We're encouraged that the Sixth Floor Museum, dedicated to Kennedy's life and death, will fill a void and take over commemoration activities at Dealey Plaza. The Sixth Floor occupies the former book depository space and is named for the spot from which Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to have fired the fatal shots.
Whether you believe that really isn't the point anymore. Poll after poll shows significant numbers doubt that Oswald could have acted alone and instead believe that a conspiracy variously attributed to the CIA , the FBI, the Mafia, right-wing extremists, the military-industrial complex, anti-Castro Cubans, communists or fascists had to have killed such a consequential man.
It's America. Believe what you wish.