Treasure trove of JFK, LBJ documents declassified by CIA

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47. My interest in the papers didn't leap assassination to mind,

but here it is all over this thread. Conspiracy theories verwhelming all other topics.

Look, perhaps somehow something sinister is being hidden, but almost certainly anyone who would have been involved is dead now or at best drooling over his lunch tray in a skilled nursing facility. Not that it wouldn't matter, it would, but I question that for some the mere mention of Kennedy's name diverts all thought from all other history to conspiracy.

Like the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was a child in L.A. in those days. Practicing kiss-ass-goodbye under our desks was as normal as fire drills, and I don't think it bothered most of us. THE day, though, tension was so palpable in the air that I felt it, even out walking down a sunny sidewalk, although I didn't understand what was happening. Sure, we'd all been hearing about impending crisis with Cuba for a while, but my mom didn't explain that everyone we saw was wondering if we would all die that day.

I just read the briefing for President Johnson, what wasn't redacted, for the day of the Tet Offensive. No mention of the taking of our embassy in Saigon then or the next day. Maybe it wasn't that significant because it had been retaken. The human drama behind these brief notes...