JFK, History and The Politics Of Memory
As part of its annual Presidents Day program, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented "JFK, History and the Politics of Memory" on February 19, 2013. The program featured New America Foundation Senior Research Fellow Timothy J. Naftali and University of Indiana Bloomington historian Edward T. Linenthal discussing how politics shape our collective memory of an event and how our thinking about tragedy is shaped by the media, ongoing investigations and the passage of time. Moderator was Jeffery A. Engel from Southern Methodist University.
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In 1998 I delivered a paper at the JFK Lancer "November in Dallas" conference in which I quoted at length the relevant work of Mr. Linenthal. I described Dealey Plaza as a sacred site -- one which, once recognized as such, can prove to be an invaluable resource for our struggles to discern truth and effect justice. I closed by suggesting to an overflow audience that we can begin our campaign to return the fire of November 22, 1963 -- metaphorically -- by thinking of Dealey Plaza as the John F. Kennedy Battlefield National Monument. P.S. I would enlighten Mr. Naftali by suggesting that anyone with reasonable access to the untainted evidence in this case who does not conclude that JFK was killed by conspirators is cognitively impaired and/or complicit in the crime.
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A murder site is not a battlefield
Why, do almost all American discussion programs allow the host to go on endlessly about their own opinions?