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Posted on Nov 23, 2006
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About 300 people made their way to Dallas’ Dealey Plaza on Wednesday to observe the 43rd anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination.  The mix of people included everyone from amateur historians to Elvis impersonators.


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Beverly Oliver, who witnessed the Nov. 22, 1963, shooting, began the event by singing the national anthem, after which the crowd observed a moment of silence at about 12:30 p.m., the time of day Lee Harvey Oswald is believed to have fired the fatal shots.

Many on hand, however, said they didn’t think Oswald acted alone in Kennedy’s assassination and some thought he was set up.

“You’ll get 100 different theories from 100 different people,” said Jim Crump, a 44-year-old stagehand from Orlando who said he was working on an “in-depth study” of the assassination. “It’s like Pandora’s box, where more and more stuff comes out until you just can’t get it to close and go away.”

Author Robert Groden, a Dealey Plaza regular for the past 12 years, hawked his 11 books and glossy magazines about the assassination from a table set up between the grassy knoll and Elm Street, where Kennedy and Gov. John Connally were shot.

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By DENNIS DAROVICH, November 27, 2006 at 6:57 am Link to this comment
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GRODEN IS IN FOR THE MONEY.  I REDISCOVERED THE ORIGINAL MOORMAN PHOTO WHICH SHOWS A TRIANGULAR EXPLOSION ON JFK’S HEAD. THIS WAS OBSCURED WITH RETOUCHING ON THE VERSION RELEASED BY UPI.  GRODEN WOULDN’ T TOUCH THIS PROOF OF A SHOT FROM THE FRONT SINCE IT DID NOT AGREE WITH HIS REDICULOUS BADGE-MAN THEORY.

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By lee huthchings, November 25, 2006 at 12:51 am Link to this comment
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Some conservatives want us to believe that the “world changed” after 9/11, but those of us old
enough to remember the death of JFK know that the world changed on the day that Kennedy was shot.

The march to progressive change ended on that day, and regression began.  The election of Reagan in 1980 sealed the end of hope for the progress of the
poor and working class in America. The rest, as they say, is history.

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By Mark Giolli, November 24, 2006 at 7:26 am Link to this comment
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The assassination site will continue to be a circus atmosphere in years to come I sadly predict. With men like Robert Groden hanging out on the knoll trying to exploit people with his outlandish theories and unconvincing drool, the site has gone down gradually since 1963 from a place of pilgrimage, to a location of confusing spectacle. Years ago on each anniversary, we had a respectable down to earth guy like Penn Jones giving proper respect to the President near the Zapruder perch. Penn Jones died in the 1990s, so now we are subject to the Groden years, which are symbolized by disrespect and insensitivity to the memory of President Kennedy, and in this case a very deep lack of respect for the truth!  The last time (and only time) I was at Dealey Plaza for an anniversary, my friend and I went to Dallas from California in 1992. Penn Jones was still alive and he signed a copy of my Jim Marr’s book “Crossfire”.  There was a respectful aura to Jones. A Texan who saw the assassination site as if it was sacred. Naturally when you have this sort of devotion to the honour of the site, the site will reflect this honour and people feel a sense of history , but if Groden is at the helm all sorts of things happen like Lennon’s piano on the knoll,Elvis impersonators, Groden with a table selling his exploitative lies! This plaza, where at one-time Cheif Justice Earl Warren and future President Gerald Ford himself walked down Elm to investigate the crime, and where so long ago President Kennedy, a young 46 year old President came motorcading down the street smiling and waving, has turned into a dissapointing and disrespectful X in the middle of the Elm street, symbolizing where the President’s fatal shots struck him and Governor Connally. Where is the respect for President Kennedy?

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