FUGGETTAABOUTTTITT!

Not since Who Shot J.R. has there been so much anticipation over the release of anything like there has been over the release, of the remaining JFK files.  Oh wait, most of you might not remember Who Shot J.R.?  There was this TV show called 'Dallas' and J.R. was the mega rich, shady, double dealing character, who got shot in the last episode of a season.  Everyone had to wait till the next season to find out if J.R. lived and Who Shot J.R.?  'Dallas' was the number 1, T.V. show back in the day, when that designation meant something.  Just about everyone in the country got into 'Who Shot J.R., including people who never watched the show.  Betting on the question of 'Who Shot J.R. grew rapidly and odds on the different characters in show, were set, just like it was the Superbowl.  Then office pools were set up as well.  Again, just like the Superbowl.  The betting was fierce and almost every office had a pool.  JFK, on the other hand, was the 35th President of the United States and he was assassinated in Dallas, no connection to the TV show, back on November 23, 1963.

At first, we were told and most everyone believed, that the assassination of JFK was the work of a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.  But a few years later the conspiracy theories began and they haven't stopped since.  We've always had our money on LBJ, who had been the Vice President but we're not into conspiracy theories, so we've never printed that before.  But now, with the release of all the files, we know...  Well... nothing.

And this after all these years of conspiracy theories on top of conspiracy theories.  Theories  like...  It was the C.I.A, the F.B.I, the Joint Chiefs, the Mafia, the Russians, Fidel Castro, Cuban Exiles, the Bay of Pigs survivors, the Watergate Burglars, All of the Above, Some of the Above and just about anyone else, you want to throw in there, like LBJ, our favorite.  And, even though there is nothing in this new release of the files, it won't stop the conspiracy theorists.  It will just whet their appetites.  They will see conspiracy in any mention of the aforementioned cohorts and others we and you have forgotten about.  Hell, the conspiracy theorists will see conspiracies in the smudges and coffee stains, left on the documents.

In the end, the President got assassinated.  Like it of not, everyone got over it.  Even Jackie his wife, who married a billionaire.  And, the rest of the Kennedys too, who went on to drive their cars, boats and planes into things just like they always did.  Rumor has it that they weren't too good, with wagons and carts back in the old country.

There is never going to be a note in any file that says.  'I shot the President from the Grassy Knoll.  Yours truly, Joe Meltzer.'  

It's going to be just like Who Shot J.R.?  Once everyone knew it was Kristen, his Sister-in-law/Mistress and all the bettors and the office pool winners were paid off, it was just one big FUGGETTAABOUTTITT!!!

So everyone, just FUGGETTAABOUTTITT!!!

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P.S. J.R. survived getting shot and went on to be the shady, double dealing character for quite a few more seasons of 'Dallas'.