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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

JFK: 50 Years Later


Nearly 50 years ago (11/22/63), President John F. Kennedy was assassinated along his motorcade route through Dallas, Texas.




Because the supposed killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was himself shot just days after Kennedy...



...to this day there remains no definitive conclusion on the assassination case (though most plausible evidence points to Oswald acting alone).

Down here in the Media Center, we have some books on display to commemorate the death of President Kennedy and remember his hopeful presidency.



For a fictional look at what would have happened had the assassination attempt been thwarted, this effort by Stephen King is one of my favorite books:



A new movie just released entitled "Parkland" is an incredible dramatic re-telling of those fateful "Four Days in November" from a number of different points of view: