"YES, OSWALD ALONE KILLED KENNEDY:" I'm not normally one to praise the journalistic skills of Peter Jennings, but the special he hosted last night on the Kennedy assassination was quite an achievement- a dismantling, bit by bit, of the entire case that a widespread conspiracy killed the president of the United States 40 years ago tomorrow. Best of all is the takedown of the brilliantly made but nevertheless fraudulent 1991 movie directed by Oliver Stone.
Much of the best stuff from the special is reproduced on ABC News' website, including an amazing 3D animation of the assassination; for more, read the essay (which shares this post's name) by noted JFK expert Jerry Cohen, excerpted here.
And here's Gregg Easterbrook:
This morning a New York Times reflection on the Kennedy assassination refers to the rifle Lee Harvey Oswald used "to kill the president, according to official accounts." Please. Forty years and countless investigations later, we can believe that Oswald was the one who did it. All lingering doubts were erased by the 1994 book Case Closed by Gerald Posner.Posted by Stephen Silver at November 21, 2003 04:57 PM