Trump orders some JFK documents to remain secret
by Matt Pearce, Los Angeles Times
Oct 27, 2017
3 minutes
In retrospect, it all feels so familiar.
A gunman fires into a crowd and warps history. Millions of shocked Americans demand answers. The photographs and videos and bystanders give a thousand accounts from a thousand inconclusive angles. A suspect is psychoanalyzed for motive, the investigation lags, dread spreads, conspiracy infects the culture. The dead are dead, and closure is a rumor. Modern paranoid life.
"In a way," said Ken Hughes, a researcher with the University of Virginia's Miller Center, "that era began in Dallas in November of 1963."
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