A note to friends and acquaintances about November 22, 1963

Tomorrow is a somber day.  It’s not actually a time I like talking about bullet angles and conspiracies or watching once again the Zapruder film.  I’m sorry I have to talk so much about Oswald.  But so many people still have questions, doubts, and unanswered suspicions.   That is not surprising given how many canards are continuously passed around as if they are facts.  And efforts by some to cash in on the conspiracy fever that is so prevalent in modern America, further cloud the search for a broad consensus about what really happened at Dealey Plaza.

Twenty years ago, in the wake of the hardcover publication of Case Closed, Trisha and I visited JFK’s grave at Arlington.  Hundreds of people, Americans and foreigners, paid their respect.  It was incredibly moving.

In the 20 years since, there has been a slow, steady climb in the number of people who believe that a 24-year-old sociopath managed to end Camelot with a single bullet.  There are too many instances over the centuries where vi…