I was, of course, not alive when President Kennedy was assassinated on this day back in 1963. Despite that fact, for some reason I glommed on to JKF’s assassination the same way I dove into things like Bigfoot and UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle. I’m sure it had to do with all the mystery and conspiracy theories surrounding President Kennedy’s death.<\/p>\n

One of the earliest books I remember reading about the assassination was Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy<\/i><\/a> by Vincent Bugliosi. Although I didn’t put two and two together for may years, I had another one of Bugliosi’s books in my personal library for many years. Not only did Bugliosi write Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders<\/i>, but he was also the prosecutor on the Manson case.<\/p>\n

Back to Four Days in November<\/i>. I scoured every square inch of that book, from the blurry picture of the Umbrella Man to the giant, two-page spread of Kennedy’s head being opened in frame 313 of Zapruder’s famous home movie. Over the years I’ve collected and read many books regarding Kennedy’s assassination, but Four Days<\/i> was one of the best. I can’t remember whether the copy I used to read belonged to my Mom or my Dad, but years ago at a used book store I picked up my own copy. The picture on the cover is different, but the pages within are the same.<\/p>\n

In 2005, while visiting my friend Justin down in Dallas, we stopped off at Dealey Plaza. It was an odd experience, having deja vu at a place you’ve never been to before. All at once, the pictures I had studied for years came to life. There was the book depository! There was the window! There was the half-wall! There was the grassy knoll!<\/p>\n

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Like Bigfoot and UFOs, I eventually outgrew the Kennedy conspiracy theories. We’ll ever know 100% for sure what happened that day; once I realized that I kind of let it go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was, of course, not alive when President Kennedy was assassinated on this day back in 1963. Despite that fact, for some reason I glommed on to JKF’s assassination the same way I dove into things like Bigfoot and UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle. I’m sure it had to do with all the mystery and conspiracy theories surrounding President Kennedy’s death. One of the earliest books I remember reading about the assassination was Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi. Although I didn’t put two and two together for may years, I had… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}