I was startled to find recently how the so-called JFK mystery was clarified by the interview with James Piereson available online as 5 short videos here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

“James Piereson is the director of Manhattan Institute’s Center for the American University and president of the William E. Simon Foundation. A former political science professor, his latest book is Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy shattered American Liberalism.”

Piereson argues that there never really was any mystery about the assassination of JFK. He was clearly killed by a Communist and was thus a casualty of the Cold War, and all of the pertinent facts became known within days. Americans on the right found this unsurprising, and did not have to adjust their view of the world to accommodate it.

It was liberals, the media and academics who simply could not accept the obvious, and had to spin all sorts of conspiracy theories in order to obfuscate it.