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Watching JFK’s Ghost Fade Away Watching JFK's Ghost Fade Away Continued From Page 28 Some of the visiting journalists who have come here to cover the 50th have told me that they find the presentations that the assassination theorists make to tourists in Dealey Plaza gauche and, worse, even deeply distasteful. One reporter seemed less bothered by Groden than by parents who stood by without a care in the world while their pre-adolescent children pored over grisly brain and skull autopsy photos displayed on Groden's table. Yes. It's really rough stuff. Groden and the other theorists all seem to have hardened into a kind of thick-skinned immunity worthy of one of those crime serials on TV. They're not lambs or innocents. If they were out there hawking that stuff on the empty lot next to Rosemary Kennedy, More although they could not rule out the where you live, you'd move, believe me. - Children: Caroline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, involvement of individual members of those I'm probably supposed to tell you at this Jr., Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, Arabella Kennedy groups. Kennedy's assassination is still the point that all of these people, the people who subject of widespread debate and has spawned will be inside the barricades at Dealey Plaza on Assassination of numerous conspiracy theories and alternative the 22nd and those who will be out, believe John F. Kennedy scenarios. deeply in the legitimacy of their own positions. Maybe they do. But I won't say that. I really Lee Harvey Oswald don't believe the old guard people inside the John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of barricades or the conspiracy theorists outside the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 Lee Harvey Oswald, reported missing to the are behaving out of any kind of conscious or p.m. Central Standard Time (18:30 UTC) on Dallas police by Roy Truly, his supervisor at the explicit position on issues. Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Depository, was arrested approximately 70 They're all crazy. They are crazy in the Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by a minutes after the assassination for the murder of way human beings must be crazy when they sniper while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. According to stumble beneath burdens of grief. Grief dwells Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's witness Helen Markam, Tippit had spotted at the breaking point. There aren't any rules for wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. A ten- Oswald walking along a sidewalk in the grief. Grief makes everyone behave badly month investigation in 1963-64 by the Warren residential neighborhood of Oak Cliff, three sooner or later. Commission concluded that Kennedy was miles from Dealey Plaza. Officer Tippit had But grief is also how we keep the dead assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, acting earlier received a radio message which gave a man with us. Angry grief, shame-faced grief, alone, and that Jack Ruby also acted alone when description of the suspect being sought in the accusatory grief, wild wailing grief: All of it he killed Oswald before he could stand trial. assassination and called Oswald over to the holds him near, refuses to allow him to slip Although the Commission's conclusions patrol car. away. The tickets and the barricades, the were initially supported by a majority of the Helen Markam testified that after an security staff and the speeches, the ceremony American public, polls conducted between 1966 exchange of words, Tippit got out of his car and and recriminations, even the heavy-handed and 2003 found that as many as 80 percent of Oswald shot him four times. Oswald was next bully boy stuff: None of that is what it's really Americans have suspected that there was a plot seen by shoe store manager Johnny Brewer about. or cover-up. A 1998 CBS News poll showed "ducking into" the entrance alcove of his store. What we really see in Dealey Plaza on that 76% of Americans believed the President Suspicious of this activity, Brewer watched Friday will be the last gathering of the true had been killed as the result of a conspiracy. A Oswald continue up the street and slip into the grievers. The barricades will be an 2013 AP poll showed, that although the nearby Texas Theatre without paying.Brewer inconsequential detail. This will never happen percentage had fallen, more than 59% of those alerted the theater's ticket clerk, who telephoned again. They will all die. The haunt will die with polled still believed that more than one person police at about 1:40 p.m. them. And then he will be truly gone. [] was involved in the President's murder.] According to one of the arresting In contrast to the conclusions of the officers, M.N. McDonald, Oswald resisted JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Warren Commission, the United States House arrest and was attempting to draw his pistol Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) when he was struck and forcibly restrained by concluded in 1978 that Kennedy was probably - 35th U.S. President assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.[9] The the police. He was charged with the murders of - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly known HSCA found the original FBI investigation and President Kennedy and Officer Tippit later that as "Jack" or by his initials JFK, was the 35th night. Oswald denied shooting anyone and President of the United States, serving from the Warren Commission Report to be seriously claimed he was a patsy who was arrested flawed. While agreeing with the Commission January 1961 until he was assassinated in because he had lived in the Soviet Union. November 1963. that Oswald fired all the shots which caused the Oswald's case never came to trial because two - Born: May 29, 1917, Brookline, wounds to Kennedy and Connally, the HSCA days later, while being escorted to a car for stated that there were at least four shots fired Massachusetts, United States transfer from Dallas Police Headquarters to the - Assassinated: November 22, 1963, Dallas, (only three of which could be linked to Oswald) Dallas County Jail, he was shot and killed by and that there was "...a high probability that two Texas, United States gunmen fired at [the] President." Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, live on - Spouse: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (m. American television. Arrested immediately after The HSCA did not identify any other 1953–1963) person or group involved in the assassination the shooting, Ruby later said that he had been - Movies: The John Glenn Story, Profiles in distraught over the Kennedy assassination and Courage, A Profile in Courage, The Age of besides Oswald, but they did specifically say that killing Oswald would spare "...Mrs. the CIA, the Soviet Union, organized crime, and Kennedy, Part I: The Early Years several other groups were not involved, Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to - Siblings: Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, trial." []