"Last Word on the JFK Assassination" at UNLV

[Jim Hargrove]

But I was saddened to see that the small gathering was almost exclusively senior citizens. While there was one high school student (age 18) who asked a perceptive question ("Why was JFK assassinated in broad daylight?"), there were no young people in the audience.

Twenty years ago or so, I spent three or four hours on the telephone with the actor Martin Sheen. I was interviewing him for a book I was writing about him for high school and junior high school students. Several hours into the talk, we started discussing his famous role in the movie Apocalypse Now. I said something like, "Isn't it a shame President Kennedy didn't live to see his order to remove military 'advisers' from Vietnam by the end of 1964, and isn't it a shame that so few Americans today know what he tried to do?"

Sheen answered, "You know, Jim, I've always felt that as long as you could convince one single person about the truth, there is always hope."

Sounds right to me.

JIm