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assassination and had found it to be indeed the result of a
meaningless act by a man acting alone.
Certainly, the last thing in the world to occur to me
was the possibility that the removal of President Kennedy and the
subsequent arrival of half a million members of the American
military in Vietnam might be related.
Of course, with regard to the assassination, like
everyone else I was aware of some of the odd contradictions. It
was public knowledge that most of the crowd in Dealey Plaza
thought that they had heard, and even seen, shooting from the
grassy knoll up in front of the President. Some of them had run
up the knoll, behind the wooden fence on top of it, into the
railroad yard in the back, and supposedly had been stopped by men
identifying themselves as Secret Service agents.
And, undeniably, there had been some real sloppiness in
the protection system for the President. Everyone knew tht the
protective bubble had been removed from his limousine and had
seen the photographs of the numerous wide open windows overlooking
Dealey Plaza. But these, I reasoned, were the first things that
any investigation would have dug into -- precisely because they
were such anomalies. The F.B.I. most certainly had done just
that and -- as if that were not enough -- the Warren Commission
had inquired extensively into the matter for eight months.
The mutual conclusion of these two weighty bodies that
all the shooting had been done by one man behind the President
had had the effect upon me of converting the allegations about
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