17-03-2014, 06:58 PM
I told this story over at the EF last fall, good time to tell it here.
A while back I asked a Millennial friend of mine -- a New Englander in her mid-twenties -- why it was that her generation didn't have that much interest in the JFK assassination, as some polls might lead one to believe.
"It's because they make it so boring," she said.
A couple of weeks later she asked me what I'd been up to and I said I was having a blast on the internet, giving people hell over the central issue of the JFK assassination.
She asked me what was the central issue of the JFK assassination. I told her she didn't want to know, but she insisted, no nonsense.
I explained that JFK had a wound of entrance in the back with no exit, and there was no round recovered in the autopsy. There was a wound of entrance in the throat, no exit, no round recovered during the autopsy. What happened to the bullets causing the back and throat wounds? That's the central issue.
She thought a moment and said -- "But was it a real autopsy?"
I said there were a lot of problems with the autopsy, but nonetheless, that was the situation. Two wounds of entrance, no exits, no bullets.
I said -- "Some people think the bullets were removed prior to the autopsy--"
"--Or it was some government shit that dissolved!"
I was floored. A previously dis-interested 25-year old reflects for a moment on the basic facts of the case and trumps all three major JFK 50 conferences with its accumulated research experience measured in millennia.
It's because high-tech solutions are obvious to today's youngsters, but to the older cohort its the stuff of silly sci-fi.
A while back I asked a Millennial friend of mine -- a New Englander in her mid-twenties -- why it was that her generation didn't have that much interest in the JFK assassination, as some polls might lead one to believe.
"It's because they make it so boring," she said.
A couple of weeks later she asked me what I'd been up to and I said I was having a blast on the internet, giving people hell over the central issue of the JFK assassination.
She asked me what was the central issue of the JFK assassination. I told her she didn't want to know, but she insisted, no nonsense.
I explained that JFK had a wound of entrance in the back with no exit, and there was no round recovered in the autopsy. There was a wound of entrance in the throat, no exit, no round recovered during the autopsy. What happened to the bullets causing the back and throat wounds? That's the central issue.
She thought a moment and said -- "But was it a real autopsy?"
I said there were a lot of problems with the autopsy, but nonetheless, that was the situation. Two wounds of entrance, no exits, no bullets.
I said -- "Some people think the bullets were removed prior to the autopsy--"
"--Or it was some government shit that dissolved!"
I was floored. A previously dis-interested 25-year old reflects for a moment on the basic facts of the case and trumps all three major JFK 50 conferences with its accumulated research experience measured in millennia.
It's because high-tech solutions are obvious to today's youngsters, but to the older cohort its the stuff of silly sci-fi.