Playboy's History Of Assassination In America

April, 1976

The end of CamelotThe people will forget in a few days and there will be another President.--Lee Harvey Oswald, November 23, 1963For some, it was the muffled drums, the posthumous pulse of John Fitzgerald Kennedy sounding in ceaseless cadence. For some, the hideous yellow catering lift bellied against Air Force One, the somnambulistic widow in bloody clothes, the bronze casket burnished by TV lights descending to the tarmac's ring of somber, famous faces. For some, the clockwork quadrille of the...

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