“One more factor is the first set of Baby Boomers was coming of age. Kennedy was ‘their’ president, so of course his assassination was the Most Important Event Ever, it shattered the universe, it couldn’t have been a lone gunman with a bee in his bonnet, the evil forces the New Youth already sensed were arrayed against them (Mom and Dad! The Warmongering no-dancing, no-drinking, no-fun oldsters! A.k.a. ‘the Mob,’ ‘right-wingers,’ and capitalists — which purveyors of Beatles records and mini skirts of course were not) had to have done it, just to rain on their parade.”
