The night before he died, President Kennedy and his wife slept in a suite that had been turned into their own private art show. Fifty years on, the exhibition has been recreated. Charles Darwent on how America is reliving the assassination through art
• The assassination of JFK: the shots seen round the world – in pictures
Just before 8am on 22 November 1963, John F Kennedy stepped bare-headed into the rain outside the Hotel Texas and addressed a crowd of 3,000 people waiting stoically there to see him. There were, he deadpanned, no faint hearts in Fort Worth. JFK apologised for his missing wife, upstairs in their room: "Mrs Kennedy is still organising herself – it takes longer, but of course she looks better than we do when she does it." Then he left with her for Dallas.
We all know what came next, but what had come before?
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/20/jfk-art-president-pictures
'Accidental victim' in JFK assassination recalls shooting
The only bystander who was wounded in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy says he is still working on coming to terms with what he witnessed on that fateful day in Dallas.
James Tague was a 27-year-old car salesman late for a lunch date when traffic stopped in front of him near the triple underpass of Dealey Plaza. Barely aware of the president's visit, he stepped out of his car to see what was going on.
After more than 30 years of research into the shooting, Tague said he believes Oswald was innocent and that Kennedy was killed by a team of hit men hired by then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
“Finding this was no big deal, it’s like a crossword puzzle — you just got to start putting the pieces together,” Tague told TimesDispatch.com. “Kennedy’s assassination was not a conspiracy, it was a coup.”
Still, Tague still struggles with discussing what he observed that day. He hopes a new book he is writing on the subject will solve the mysteries surrounding the assassination.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/11/21/accidental-victim-in-jfk-assassination-recalls-shooting/
Ja, många är dom som skrivit böcker om Kennedymordet. Det går inte att räkna dem alla...