51 years ago President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Case not closed at all.

[longship]

86. Sorry, my friend. No can go there.

I, too, tread down that road. But the evidence all seemed to be negative evidence toward what was termed the official story. There was no positive evidence for any of the multitude of alternatives. Not one shred that would distinguish one narrative from another.

That is because, like the 9-11 conspiracies which would appear after that regrettable event, there is no one positive narrative supported by evidence. That is when I realized that these things were all ad hoc rationalizations whose sole justifications seem to be to shoot down the official story but without any single, coherent narrative that is supported by the evidence at hand to replace it.

That is when I cast it all aside.

The following is my Nov 22, 1963 story:
In 1963, I was delivering the afternoon edition of The Detroit News. We delivery boys were released early from school that day from Jr. high to be ready at the paper station, a small grimy storefront on Schoolcraft Street managed by an always grumpy old guy. Of course, the newspapers were way late, due to the necessity of basically having to rewrite and reprint the entire paper. When the truck arrived, the paper's name emblaisoned on its side, we all pitched in getting the bundles off the truck. The grumpy old guy got us working together, for once.

We opened the bundles and were collectively horrified by the headline the Detroit News editors chose.


Delivering that paper was an embarrassment. I believe the News lost subscribers, although my small route suffered none.

My best regards, Octafish.
Hope you are well.