AMROD and the JFK assassination
62 years ago today, JFK was murdered. I was only 5 years old that day. I have some sketchy memories. I was emotionally aware of the shock to everyone and I recall seeing a grainy newsreel of a man carrying the rifle that had been discovered in the Texas Schoolbook Depository out through a crowded room...holding it over his head so all could see. I was too little to understand anything more than the feelings this caused. The people I was around were shocked and saddened and confused. In the 1970s I became somewhat more politically aware. Vietnam had divided the nation. It definitely pitted the feeling of being Pro anything America did...with one's moral sense. I didn't know it then but it was an experience of what now is a common feeling, "cognitive dissonance". For me, the sequel to JFK being murdered was Richard Nixon resigning in shame due to Watergate. The adults informed us that 'st...
