tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post1283474568906234981..comments2024-03-28T02:46:03.227-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: Looking Back on Assassinations and Motivation Randallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-519594867889183792013-11-15T09:02:18.822-05:002013-11-15T09:02:18.822-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-42193416302930878322013-11-14T23:23:10.931-05:002013-11-14T23:23:10.931-05:00Glad to have you here, R. T. My masters is in Amer...Glad to have you here, R. T. My masters is in American literature and we have plenty of literary stuff going on here, so you'll be at home. Do you know the FB page? It has fun stuff, too.hcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334093881332383848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-9175858017756485672013-11-14T15:22:09.835-05:002013-11-14T15:22:09.835-05:00I would like to add to your post by suggesting eve...I would like to add to your post by suggesting everyone read Professor Sabato's new book, The Kennedy Half-Century; it offers a brilliant new synthesis of information focusing on Kennedy, his rise to power, his assassination, and his "after life" in American political culture.<br /><br />BTW, I have just discovered your site, and--although I teach literature rather than history--I plan on visiting often.R.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13220814349193561823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-14950340315015826422013-11-14T14:42:57.208-05:002013-11-14T14:42:57.208-05:00I think that's it. It's just too hard to ...I think that's it. It's just too hard to accept the meaninglessness of such a horrible act of violence.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-88009170106238419752013-11-13T22:02:33.713-05:002013-11-13T22:02:33.713-05:00Wish I had seen this earlier to start a conversati...Wish I had seen this earlier to start a conversation-- I've been on the road. I posted something a week or so ago to THS's FaceBook page from the journalist who was present at JFK's assassination, as well as Oswald's arrest, and later, Oswald's murder. The journalist had a wonderful line at the end of that interview, when he said we all want to believe in vast conspiracies because we don't want to believe that one loser can change history for all of us. That comment brought me up cold. Maybe we struggle to understand the mind of assassins because we want to believe there is larger meaning to their actions that mental imbalance.hcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07334093881332383848noreply@blogger.com