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with our food but neither of us ate anything.
For an unusually long time, I recall, the information
coming from the television set was remarkably inconclusive with
regard to specific details. Oddly enough, despite the enormous
crowd of onlookers at the assassination scene in Dallas, the
crisp voices coming to us electronically were providing no real
information at all about the source of the fatal shooting. The
continuing confusion coming to us from Dallas remained
spellbinding, made all the more so by snippets of added color
commentary. Nevertheless, for at least two hours the facts
FN
revealed about who the rifleman or riflemen had been added up to
the
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exactly zero.
However, we were hypnotized, despite the almost unending
trivia, by the magic of the communication spectacle occurring in
front os us. Hardly anyone left the restaurant that afternoon.
The business and professional men who had. come there for lunch
cancelled their appointments. Frank and I made our calls to the
office and returned to the television set.
Everyone then -- and for a long time afterwards -- was
too stunned to be aware of the inordinately long time which had
passed without the slightest hint having been given concerning
the identity of Kennedy's killer or killers, least of all about
any early arrests having been made. We were more concerned,
perhaps, with what had happened to him and with our own hurt.
There was no perceptible reason for the unexplained
delay in the relay of any results from the investigation thus
far. It was not as if one of the commentators had said, for
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