Let’s Talk Sense About Oswald

Three years after President Kennedy’s assassination, we still don’t know much more than on the day after it. Nor are we ever likely to know more. The Warren Commission and its critics have not produced conclusive evidence of either Oswald’s guilt or his innocence. And unless new evidence comes to light, there is no point in setting up a new commission: the witnesses whose memories have been proved inaccurate are not going to change their testimony; members of any new commission are not likely to disagree with the first one on fundamentals; even if a second investigation could be conducted more leisurely and more carefully, even if it were to follow the hundreds of minor tracks which some have suggested it should explore...