Love Field on the morning of November 22
Jefferson Morley
August 15, 2016
A haunting photo gallery from Robin Unger, curator of the best online collection of JFK Assassination Photographs.
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Trump and the anxiety of assassination
Jefferson Morley
August 11, 2016
Donald Trump’s comments about the 2nd Amendment and Hillary Clinton have unleashed the anxiety of assassination that always–always–courses beneath the surface of American political culture. This anxiety is the enduring result of the searing trauma of November 22, 1963 on generations of Americans. Before there was 9/11 there was 11//22.
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JFK Facts podcast: 28 pages on 9/11, another Dallas nightmare, and more…
Alan Dale
July 15, 2016
Our 7th podcast. This week we discuss:
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Dallas shooting kills five police officers
Jefferson Morley
July 8, 2016
The country’s legacy of gun violence on terrible display.
The shootings, only a few blocks from Dealey Plaza, where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, transformed an emotional but peaceful rally into a scene of carnage and chaos, and they injected a volatile new dimension into the anguished debate over racial disparities in American criminal justice.
Source: Dallas Sniper Shooting Leaves 5 Police Officers Dead; Suspect Is Killed – The New York Times
Dallas police chief Jesse Curry and his JFK assassination file
Jefferson Morley
June 20, 2016
Dallas police chief Jesse Curry was riding in the lead car on November 22, 1963. When the shots rang out he grabbed his radio and told his men to check the area that would become known as “the grassy knoll.”
That’s where Curry thought the fatal shot had come from.
Source: Jesse Currys, JFK Assassination File. Limited Collectors Edition
Jacqueline Kennedy’s pink Chanel suit: then & now
Jefferson Morley
May 2, 2016
One of the most haunting images from November 22, 1963, is Jacqueline Kennedy’s pink suit smeared with President Kennedy’s blood in Dallas.
Dallas police chief Jesse Curry on the origin of the shots
Jefferson Morley
April 25, 2016
(H/T Tree Frog)
See also:
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The view from the Triple Underpass
Jefferson Morley
March 15, 2016
On November 22, 1963, railroad worker S.M. Holland was watching the presidential motorcade approach Dealey Plaza from a perch on top of a bridge known as The Triple Underpass.
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How do you solve the JFK assassination?
Jefferson Morley
November 22, 2015
As I said in at the JFK Lancer conference in Dallas two years ago, the challenge is to: describe the latest evidence accurately; use the internet to mobilize online civil society; press for full disclosure; and insist on accountability. It can be done by 2017.
Jackie Kennedy’s ordeal after JFK’s assassination
Jefferson Morley
November 5, 2015
“The former first lady constantly provided graphic details of her husband’s death to friends and family and contemplated suicide,” author BarbaraLeaming reveals in her 2014 biography “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.”. “Although she put on a stoic face publicly, Kennedy struggled for decades internally.” …
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Jackie Kennedy’s ‘particular brand of silence’
Jefferson Morley
November 1, 2015
In a finely reported piece for Esquire last November Chris Jones recreated the scene on Air Force One on the afternoon of November 22, 1963.
Here’s the first meeting of now former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson, now the wife of the President of the United States.
“I don’t know what to say,” Lady Bird says. “What wounds me most of all is that this should happen in my beloved state of Texas.”
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