:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 11.16.2003 ::
:: "Scene of the crime 11/22/63" ::
From SFGate.com:
From Dealey Plaza and the grassy knoll to the tale of Nick Beef's grave, conspiracy is still a big draw in Dallas
By John Flinn
People the world over make the pilgrimage to Dealey Plaza in search of answers, or some sense of closure, and most go home with neither. As the nation marks the 40th anniversary this week, the assassination of John F. Kennedy remains for many of us a disturbing mystery, a still-purple bruise on the national psyche.
But still we are drawn to Dallas. We come to gaze at the sniper's perch, hidden behind a wall of children's schoolbooks; to stand on the very spot where Abraham Zapruder shot history's most notorious home movie; to poke through the shrubs for clues that somehow eluded the thousands of searchers before us.
Driven by a morbid obsession, some are compelled to visit every site associated with the assassination, no matter how trivial: the former location of Jack Ruby's strip club, the Texas Theater, the street where Officer J. D. Tippit was gunned down, Oswald's quasi-secret gravesite.
John Flinn recently made his own pilgrimage.
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