Camelot Requiem - An opera about JFK assassination aftermath

[Michael Hogan]

From the Johns Hopkins News Network

Peabody alum, grad student create opera about JFK assassination aftermath

Figaro Project's production of 'Camelot Requiem' debuts this weekend

Brent McCabe

May 9, 2013

Excerpt:

Camelot's two acts take place in waiting rooms, one at Parkland Memorial Hospital where Kennedy was taken following the shooting, and one at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland where the autopsy was performed 10 hours later. "I've always been really fascinated with what happens behind the scenes of the Kennedy assassination," Vincent says. "So much of history focuses on the grassy knoll and Jack Ruby and all that, but what always piqued my interest was this idea that you had JFK's personal staff, the family, and the Johnsons, and they were essentially stuck in these waiting rooms for 10 hours, waiting for the autopsy to be done. And we don't really know what happened behind those close doors. All we know is that when they emerged they were all collected and the country kept on going."

http://hub.jhu.edu/2013/05/09/vincent-figaro-camelot