Headline July 21st, 2012 / President Kennedy's Assassination!

'The Mountainous Mystery Of:

"President Kennedy's Assassination!"'

In Memorium

The World will never tire of hearing this never-ending story of the killing of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. For once the entire world joined in mourning this horrible tragedy. And in years since, when 1963 kept getting fully released to legend, the ''philosophical crux'' : 'that the sudden death of a man as large in possibilities as this very handsome and brave President, was somewhat less painful, somewhat more tolerable if we perceive his killer as tragic rather than absurd. 

Absurdity, insisted Mailer ''corrodes our species.'' Therefore, to the devotee, which is to say, the reader who has all the books and theories spilled upon a grass knoll in the back of his mind, must read this post. Will now know what the the author meant when he mentions ''the famous morning'' in September 1963 when Lee Harvey Oswald did or did not participate in a black voter registration effort in Clinton, Louisiana. 

Will spot mistakes: Officer J.D.Tippit was shot at the corner of Tenth and Patton, not Tenth and Dalton! And will wonder at things left out: no mention of Billy Lovelady, the man with the disquieting resemblance to Oswald, photographed in the Texas School Book Depository's main entrance at the moment of the shots?? 

The entire world has since come to ask why, and if, Oswald came to kill President Kennedy. For a long long stretch the investigators goal seems as difficult to divine as the assassin's. Stimulated also in part by an ''offer from the Belarus KGB to allow a look into their files on Oswald,'' Author Mailer did go onto setup a 'base camp' Although the materials proved to be less comprehensive than promised, it was a good opening to move into a large and hitherto unrecorded part of Oswald's life. 

A thorough investigation ensued in Minsk and Moscow; dozens of people who had anything to do with Oswald were interviewed for the years of his defection -1959-62. And finding their memories, thanks to years of State oppression, surprisingly fresh. 

After the assassination they had been instructed by the KGB not to speak about Oswald with his wife Marina, and indeed they did not. So, their recall was often pristine; it had not been exposed to time so much as sealed against it. 

In contrast, American memories-- including Marina's, after her many decades here, have been corrupted and internally contradicted here by their owners garrulous freedom: thirty years of talking to everyone from Earl Warren to Oliver Stone to Hard Copy. So Mailer decided to look one more time, at all we knew, through all we didn't! Awesome!

Thanks !WOW! Readers just don't miss the next post!

Good night & God bless!

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