Fifty years on, I was riveted to hear again live broadcasts of President John F. Kennedy's murder replayed on local stations. Many did a fine job in taped and live memorial tributes to JFK and interviews and thoughtful reflections of all who experienced the sudden, traumatic loss of our nation's inspiring leader.
However, there was scant attention paid on this anniversary to any critical examination of the assassination since thousands of new records have been made available since 1992. Traditional media cling even now to the Warren Commission, the single bullet theory and the lone gunman.
Few media that I heard devoted time to a debate or conversation about Lee Harvey Oswald's motivation for shooting JFK, which no official investigation has ever satisfactorily answered. None that I heard devoted time to a critique of the Warren Commission, which was so hasty and so incurious about so much related to JFK's murder that even President Lyndon B. Johnson was never convinced. Few inquired into why thousands of documents related to the assassination remain classified. Why continue to conceal so many documents 50 years on if Mr. Oswald was truly all alone and mentally unbalanced?
The best investigative authors about the assassination have shown beyond any doubt in my mind that he was neither alone nor mentally ill. Most media failed on this anniversary to do more than hit the replay button, neglecting to pursue how and why a conspiracy murdered John F. Kennedy.
David Gibson
Ballston Lake