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November 22nd 1963
by C. L. Cook
 It used to be a day hallowed in a way: On this day in 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the young American president who in his day embodied a hope for a better future, much as president-elect Obama does for millions today, was gunned down in Dallas, Texas. In recent years, remembrance has become lower key.
Photo from a film by amateur photographer George Jefferies and his son-in-law, Wayne Graham
The Kennedy assassination remains shrouded in government secrecy, the official pronouncement made by the Warren Commission naming Lee Harvey Oswald as the lone gunman widely believed to be a convenient whitewash at best. Others believe this is the day the democracy of the United States of America was taken over by a shadow-government run by the unseen actors running the military-intelligence community. Those, often disregarded as "conspiracy theorists," contend America is run to this day by the same dark forces responsible for Kennedy's killing forty-five years ago.
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