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60 years later, JFK's assassination still raises questions. These 3 docs have (some) answers

President John F. Kennedy, back left, and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, back right, begin the motorcade from Love Field to downtown Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

Wednesday, Nov. 22, marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Do people, by which I mean people younger than me — and that is a whole lot of people — still recognize this date, let alone its importance?

We're used to the idea, from science fiction, that even small alterations to the past can change the present for the worse. But the last six decades really might have taken a different course, in a good way, I mean, had Kennedy survived; it was a critical moment in history, a node in the timeline. In any case, it's hard to imagine that where we might have gone could be worse than where we are now, politically speaking.

That we'll

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