Does It Really Matter ?

  The subject of a past historical event, the JFK Assassination or any other, is usually met with mixed feelings and opinions.  Many people do not find reliving or researching the past to be meaningful at all.  To them, it has no purpose.  They disregard anyone who questions or probes the events of the past, calling them buffs or fanatics, or Conspiracy Theorists.  They say, "the past is in the past- leave it there, and move on."  And many were not even alive at the time that John F. Kennedy was murdered.  So to them, it is nothing but a passing thought, a paragraph or page in their history textbooks.

  But truly, all events in our lives, both personal and historical, have deep and long-lasting results.  Nothing and no one is an island.  Everything has consequences.  Can we honestly live our lives without any reflection on what has gone on in the past, especially the political assassination of a U.S. president ?

  Can you honestly believe that if John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated, things would have been the same ?  Not hardly.  Our entire lives would probably be different.  First of all, I believe that the War in Vietnam would've ended much sooner.  That in itself would have been revolutionary.  We most likely would not have experienced Watergate.  Who knows what other events would've been changed or altered forever in our history?

  Or.. even if those events in Dallas still occurred, but we would've fully learned all of the details of the crime ?   What if Lee Harvey Oswald had lived to stand trial ?  What if everyone associated with the crime had been interviewed or testified ?  Years and years have passed, this year marking the 50th Anniversary, and still most people still believe we did not learn EVERYTHING about what happened that day.  If you do not know much about those events, you will most likely be both shocked and enlightened as to some of the facts and myths about JFK's death.

  Still- there are naysayers, the ones who, rather than ask "Who Shot JFK?", would rather respond with, "Who Cares?"  Well, if you are one of those, then you can close the books on the case, and stop reading now.  Go back to your TV set or your video games, or whatever it is that entertains you, and just leave this for others to decipher and learn.   We may never have all of our questions answered, but that does not in the least keep us from asking them, or from continuing to seek answers.