Jess Harris

"I would have never put anyone in the Texas School Book Depository with so many locations that were more advantageous..." I had never seen Dealey Plaza until last fall. It is, as many people say, smaller than it looks in photos. The overwhelming thought I had was, if I were going to attempt something of that nature, the TSBD is the last place I'd try it from. Dealey Plaza had several very opportune spots - no one seriously would choose the 6th floor for that purpose.

Rationally I'd have gone with the patsy, but I followed my gut and went with the informer. I think Tommy's reconciliation of the two is right.

"The big mystery is why then was he killed" - not believing Oswald did it, I nonetheless have a difficult time with this as well.

The comments are heartening, though. This is the guy who tells his followers not to trust the government? And he swallows the WC whole.

The day John Kennedy was shot I was in a 7th grade classroom in Arlington VA. Unlike today, northern Virginia was generally conservative; but very few people expressed anything but sadness or anger about his assassination. My own parents didn't like JFK but they were shocked and horrified. As in Dallas, there was no escaping what had happened. On Sunday my mother uncharacteristically brought my brothers and me to DC to stand vigil as the casket was moved from the White House to the Capitol. In that short distance, in the bitter cold, there were thousands of others with us. The line to file past the casket would remain long throughout that freezing night. As we stood waiting for the caisson to pass by, someone who had been listening to his transistor radio announced suddenly that Lee Harvey Oswald had been shot. My mother started to say something and then abruptly shut her mouth. Years later she told me she had assumed, since LHO was arrested so quickly, that he had been a known threat; she was angry that no one had acted before the assassination to prevent this 'known threat' from killing the president. It was when he was suddenly silenced on that Sunday that she realized there was much more than we were being told. She considered the Warren Report contemptible. That November 1963 weekend was the saddest one I can ever remember. Being so close to DC kept all of it in the forefront. It's impossible for me not to want to know more. I'm not a researcher but I follow the discussions here nearly every day. I don't have much to contribute - but now and then I'd like to ask a question.