Unlike in 1963, We Can Have a Real Assassination Investigation
One unlikely outcome of social media madness: I agree with Gerald Posner.
The explosion of conspiracy theories, the deluge of memes, and the venality of the influencers should not obscure the reality that we are far more likely to have a credible investigation of the near-assassination of former president Donald Trump than we had when President Kennedy was gunned down 61 years ago.
Four days after the assassination attempt on Trump, the gunman, Thomas Crooks, is dead, killed at the scene by a Secret Service sniper. We have a trove of video imagery that provides a reliable composite portrait of the crime that can be independently studied. The Secret Service leadership has been called to Capitol Hill. The internet is poised to gobble and spew the leaked findings of the various ongoing investigations.
What a difference six decades make.
Four days after the assassination of JFK, the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, who denied killing Kennedy, was dead, killed in police custody. By Nov. 26, 1963, President Lyndon Johnson had ordered the Justi…
