Lancing the Boil


It’s not a volcano. It’s a boil that’s been suppurating for more than 60 years.

One more thing that Trump will be remembered for. One more thing that had to be done before what is best about America can be restored.

Here’s how the lancing is getting started, all over the nation.



No one’s had time to study the documents in depth. That will come later. For now, we have to seal with a human lifetime’s worth of having the evidence concealed from us by people who had power to do so.

Make no mistake. The assassination of President Kennedy was a deep wound to the nation. Doubts about who did it, how, and why were vivid from the first hours. The fact that the “fog of war” surrounding the event itself never cleared has been a subtle poison in the trust Americans had in their Government and its leaders, as well as in their own level of acceptance about the possibility that they had been lied to by persons — elected officials, government administrators, and federal institutions — who swore oaths of allegiance to the Constitution and the citizenry of the nation.

The passage of time does not heal the wound but exacerbates it. I am in my Seventies now, and I remember the day Kennedy shot as if it were yesterday, my sister and aI did not take the bus home from school that day. She was there to pick us up. “The President has been shot,” she told us. We heard on the radio during the short trip home that he had died in a hospital in Dallas, Texas. I was watching the TV AT A FRIEND’s house when I witnessed the murder of ale Harvey Oswald. I was 10. I was 10 and I knew there was something gravely wrong or missing about what we were being told.

Why I wrote about it the way I did in The Boomer Bible. I knew it was the last chapter that could be written so far about the American Coming of Age. We had stalled our journey to adulthood at that precise moment in time.
 


There will be pain in the aftermath of the revelations now available to us. Let us hope there will reflection as well, not just on a mysterious tragedy in the nation’s past, but on the opportunity to view everything that has happened since through keener eyes.

This is by no means the last word on the subject. But it’s a marker in time I wanted to plant in American soil.

Don’t shy from digging into the details. If RFK Jr. can stand it, so can we.

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