Everything Kennedy......

  Suddenly, my cable universe is wall to wall with various films offering their takes on the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy and what allegedly happened on that fateful day in Dallas in 1963.  I have to admit, my guy Greg Kinnear handled the Boston accent well and functioned rather smoothly as a Hollywood JFK doppelganger of sorts.  It's amazing how poor Oswald gets treated in Hollywood move of the week circles though.  In the Kinnear led film, he's an emaciated, sweaty, Woody Allen esque assassin with a slight paunch and a flat Texas/Brooklyn accent.  In the other Kennedy film of the week, Oswald is seen as a gangly killer with piercing blue eyes with a hint of the speech pattern from Latka on Taxi.  I'm guess what I'm saying is, let's stop asking the question about why Kennedy died.  I say that because I'm a cynic and we're never going to get a definitive answer about what went down in Dallas that fateful November day.   All of these movies of the week about Kennedy are just repetitive tabloid fodder that stir the conspiracy theorists into an un necessary frenzy.  That's not to say that I don't dismiss the notion that our government, namely the CIA, would be calculated enough to arrange the Caesar like execution of its presidential field general.  What I do believe is that Oswald wasn't some loon who just picked up a rifle and took aim on a president for some unknown reason.  If you believe the stories, Oswald was a trained merc with a nice pedigree in weapons training.  The story I believe is that Oswald was a merc given a task (Kennedy) by whoever his master was and he carried out it.  And after Oswald carried out his assignment, he was subsequently served up to the world as a nut with a rifle and a grudge that reared its ugly head in Dallas.   While I admit there is some smoke to the theory that JFK was the victim of a conspiracy of some sort. one question remains.  If this was some covert plan within the halls of the very government Kennedy was the leader of, then why hasn't it happened again?  For every recorded tidbit about Kennedy's death that keeps you from over reaching, there are always certain elements that make you wonder. According to the history books, Kennedy's parade route was a turkey shoot; tall buildings with open windows and inviting sight lines.  Plus, it has been put on record that Kennedy's security detail was scaled back.  People in Chicago can't even use the expressway when Obama is in town, yet Oswald was supposedly allowed free reign to pull out a bolt action rifle and take aim at a president from a book suppository high above.  These are gross security miscalculations that either spell out incompetence or a grossly obviously betrayal by the secret service on some level.  Makes you wonder, doesn't it?  No no no.  Oswald acted alone and that's that.  I will not get caught up in the JFK conspiracy hoopla.... I will not get caught up in the JFK conspiracy hoopla.   Now if you'll excuse me, Reelz channel is running a special that examines the Zapruder film from a different angle.