Rather, "45 years AGO today.
Geez, I think I'll go back to bed! Wuz up late last night.
You shouldn’t have made the correction. For a moment, I felt 10 years younger.
I turned fifteen on that day (I did the math. Help.). It was the end of gym class when the coach got us into formation and announced the terrible news. That night Huntley-Brinkley was already describing JFK’s trip to Dallas as a descent into hostile territory. The speculation began when Jack Ruby gunned down Oswald.
Just my two kopeks, but it looks like the only conspiracy was Oswald’s, i.e., to guarantee his entry into the history books. I recall the Soviets expressed deep sorrow at the time. And why not? Kennedy was worth far more to them alive than dead, in Khrushchev’s view.
Oswald was such a loser that the Soviets practically kicked him out of the USSR (still don’t know why they provided him a Russian wife).
IMHO, that’s one more way that this nation of ours is blessed: every assassination or attempt on a President’s life has been carried out by nut job loners not privy to any wider conspiracy.
John Wilkes Booth: he and three other Rebs were going to murder not only Lincoln but his entire Cabinet? Right.
Charles Guiteau: disgruntled office seeker.
Leon Czolgocz: lone anarchist.
Lee Harvey Oswald: see above.
Squeeky Fromme: demented cultist. The other would-be assassin equally deranged.
John Hinckley: tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan just to impress Jodi Foster, so it’s said.
Best now to concentrate on Al-Qaeda. Now THAT’S a grand conspiracy, with a cast of many thousands!