November 18, 2013

New York State Library’s “Dallas, 11/22/63: 50 Years Later” exhibit

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Newspapers included in the exhibit are the New York Times and “Extra” editions of Newsday (Long Island) and the Syracuse Herald Journal, as well as color images from Life and National Geographic magazines.

The New York State Library in Albany is commemorating the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination with an exhibit,”Dallas, 11/22/63: 50 Years Later,” which will be open until the end of the year.

The exhibit features newspapers and magazines with headlines about the assassination, the program from JFK’s New York City memorial service and the Warren Commission report, as well as many books about JKF assassination conspiracies.

Edward Jay Epstein, author of The Annals of Unsolved Crime, which features a chapter on the JFK assassination, interviewed members of the Warren Commission and did extensive research into Lee Harvey Oswald’s KGB and Cuban connections. In an interview with Powerline, he offers this assessment:

“The Warren Commission was right in their conclusion that the bullets were from the Texas Book Depository and the bullets were fired by Lee Harvey Oswald and the murder weapon belonged to him.  What they didn’t necessarily get correct—at least in my view—is why Oswald killed Kennedy… Why did Oswald go up to this sniper’s nest and pull the trigger? Oswald had connections with two foreign governments —Russia and Cuba—before the assassination. The real mystery is how he was influenced on his trips to the embassies in those countries.”

Fifty years after that fateful date of November 22, 1963, six in ten Americans believe that more than just one person was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy.

 

Claire Kelley is the Director of Library and Academic Marketing at Melville House.

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