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But more important than settling the question of who has a fair claim on JFK is the reason why all sides want to get right with him: He has come to represent a time of widespread national confidence in our country’s possibilities. The year 1963 dawned, as Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center has noted, with 82 percent of the country believing that the power of the United States would increase.

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Many Americans who lived through that day mourn for more than a young president who seemed so full of life and energy. To them his sudden death was an end to boundless idealism, just as it seemed to mark the beginning of a series of events that tarnished their trust in government and political leaders.

Even Kennedy himself has suffered in ensuing years as the truth about his dalliances and his cold political calculations on civil rights and other key issues have come into focus. Fifty years ago, the office of the president commanded respect and dignity. Even those who showed up in Dallas that day with signs protesting the president’s policies were tame compared with what his successors — beginning with Lyndon Johnson and the anti-war protestors and carrying on through Barack Ohama and the vitriol of talk radio — have had to endure.

Americans have seen many wars and scandals in the ensuing years, including the resignation of a president and the impeachment (and acquittal) of another. They have seen runaway spending jeopardize the nation’s credit rating following the near collapse of the economy.

There are plenty of reasons to regard 1963 as a happier time.

But there is one overriding reason why the fixation continues. Thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation of Kennedy’s death remain classified and off-limits to researchers.

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

I believe the mafia was responsible for the assignation of JFK. The two bosses responsible were Carlos Marcelo who controlled the mob in New Orleans and Santo Trafficanti Jr who controlled Tampa Bay and most of the rest of Florida. The reason was Bobbi Kennedy. They wanted him out of the picture as United States Attorney General.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

If anyone wonders why nobody much cares . . . only one third of Americans alive today were alive back then.

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ORIGINAL: Zonie63

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

If anyone wonders why nobody much cares . . . only one third of Americans alive today were alive back then.

Still, it was an important event which should be remembered. A lot of people talk about current events and ask how things got this way, but in order to find out, one has to look back and see the chain of events leading us to where we are now. I realize that not very many people care.

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I believe the mafia was responsible for the assignation of JFK. The two bosses responsible were Carlos Marcelo who controlled the mob in New Orleans and Santo Trafficanti Jr who controlled Tampa Bay and most of the rest of Florida. The reason was Bobbi Kennedy. They wanted him out of the picture as United States Attorney General.

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ORIGINAL: FellowSlave

It is disgusting how mainstream media still pushes L. H. Oswald as the killer.

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ORIGINAL: Zonie63

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

If anyone wonders why nobody much cares . . . only one third of Americans alive today were alive back then.

Still, it was an important event which should be remembered. A lot of people talk about current events and ask how things got this way, but in order to find out, one has to look back and see the chain of events leading us to where we are now. I realize that not very many people care.

An important event for those of us who watched television that weekend.

And your 'chain of events' raises the question of the duration of cause and effect in history without inventing counterfactual(?) hypotheticals.

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ORIGINAL: FellowSlave

It is disgusting how mainstream media still pushes L. H. Oswald as the killer.

Perhaps because he was the actual assassin ?
After fifty years it's time to accept the truth...one lone loser was able to affect the course of history.....I know how difficult it is to accept that but truth is truth.

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ORIGINAL: FellowSlave

Perhaps because he was the actual assassin ?

Are you a mental patient? 90% of Americans who have looked at the facts think otherwise... and the remaining 10% ask, "Who the hell was JFK".

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ORIGINAL: Zonie63

I think that this matter could have been put to rest better if another lone loser by the name of Jack Ruby hadn't robbed the country of its right to try the man who murdered its President. If we had been able to put Oswald on trial and let justice prevail, it might have given the country a sense of closure, but because of what Ruby did, all we're left with is a bunch of messy conspiracy theories, most of which seem to cloud the whole affair in shroud of deceit and intrigue. Is that something that America needed and hungered for, some deeper meaning for these events?

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I don't know if there's any duration to cause and effect. I would just go through it on a matter-of-fact basis. Other than that, I'm not sure what you're getting at.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML

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I don't know if there's any duration to cause and effect. I would just go through it on a matter-of-fact basis. Other than that, I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Interpretations of history. For example, some claim there is a connection from the 1919 Treaty at Versailles to hyper inflation in Berlin to the fall of Weimer to the rise of Hitler. A different interpretation would be that Hitler came to power because he threw a lot of money at the German recession which was just an offshoot of the failure of capitalism and market speculation.

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As painful as Kennedy's assignation was at the time it may have little relevance to our present national condition. So, maybe not so memorable???