I keep the History Channel on a lot. Sometimes I haven't seen it before. This week is Kennedy week, with a "documentary" called The Men Who Killed Kennedy. If I were on the Chamber of Commerce for Texas or Louisiana, I'd go to court to prevent further showings of this series, just because of the odd assortment of weird characters it presents. They all seem like stereotypical redneck Americans. The cameras of the producers seem to draw oddballs like a backdoor light on a summer evening draws bugs. The witnesses claiming to remember the whole thing, having heard all the shots, knowing all the inside dope, etc. resemble the characters of a bad melodrama. Then there are the conspiracy theorists, like Jim Garrison, who make UFO abductees look totally believable. I haven't really been watching this all that closely, but it has to be the strangest aspect of how modern communications have affected people.

I can't figure out why anybody even cares anymore whether Oswald acted alone, but assuming he didn't I don't think that this documentary will add anything to solving the mystery. It seems as though everybody interviewed has reconstructed the facts in a way that makes their insight absolutely key to solving the mystery. The one I find the most interesting is the mortician who prepared Lee Oswald's body for burial. He has a theory that the body he buried wasn't Oswald's but when it was exumed to settle the doubts of his widow, the head of Oswald had been substituted for that of the first body so that the dental work would match.