Dennis Grady can still remember his teachers freaking out and recall coming to his distraught parents on the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
“It occurred to me the people who are students now were about that age when 9/11 happened, ” says Grady, exhibits designer with Dartmouth Library Education & Outreach. “Everything you assumed about the way the world worked was turned upside down.”
Film frame from movie footage shot by Mark Bell on November 22, 1963, seconds after the Presidential motorcade had passed. The grassy knoll, from which many witnesses heard gunshots, is in the background. (Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections Library)
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Grady samples this raw, destabilizing uncertainty in “The Grassy Knoll Revisited: On the Anniversary of the Assassination of JFK, ” an exhibition drawn from the holdings ofBaker-Berry Library and Rauner Special Collections Library.
“On November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, by Lee Harvey Oswald/anti-Castro Cubans/the Mafia/the CIA/the FBI/the Secret Service/the KGB/LBJ, ” writes Grady in his introduction to the exhibition.
The glass display cases along Berry Library Main Street offer harsh and vivid testimony to the chaos of that day in Dallas.
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A right-wing flyer with the headline WANTED FOR TREASON shows JFK front and side and lists crimes including: “Betraying the Constitution (which he swore to uphold): He is turning the sovereignty of the U.S. over to the communist controlled United Nations.”
The veracity of the photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald that appeared on the cover of “Life” in 1964 is one of many enduring assassination controversies. Oswald claimed it was a fake, as did many subsequent Warren Commission critics. In his paper, “A 3-D Photo Forensic Analysis of the Lee Harvey Oswald Backyard Photo, ” (2010) Dartmouth Professor Hany Farid concluded that the photograph had not been altered. (Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections Library)
This case, full of pre-assassination conspiracy theory materials that paint Kennedy as a Communist/Papist/Tri-Lateral Commission stooge, draws from several boxes of material in Rauner Library. The artifacts were collected at the time of the assassination in Dallas by Carlton Chapman, Dartmouth Medical School dean from 1966 to 1973. In November 1963, Chapman was a doctor at Dallas’ Parkland Memorial Hospital, where Kennedy was pronounced dead.
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Another display highlights the work of Dartmouth Computer Science Professor Hany Farid, a digital forensics specialist. Farid’s examination of the “Oswald backyard photo” found that the incriminating image, held up by conspiracy theorists as a fake, was “in fact physically consistent and plausible.”
He writes, “This work was greeted with what I now realize was a completely predictable response. Those claiming photo fraud accused me of being incompetent and/or complicit in the CIA’s, FBI’s, Cuban’s etc. cover up of the assassination of President Kennedy. Several particularly virulent people wrote to Dartmouth College, insisting that I should be investigated and stripped of my tenure. (I wasn’t.)”
Grady illustrates the vast array of JFK assassination materials in the Dartmouth Library through images in the exhibition. One photo shows all 26 volumes of testimony and exhibits and the 888-page Warren Commission Report. Another picture depicts stacks of conspiracy theory books. The photos serve as a bibliography for the exhibition and display the range of thought on the assassination.
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A video sampling of Kennedy materials, edited by Carla Galarza, Jones Memorial Digital Media Intern, includes not only iconic footage, such as the uncut Zapruder film and television footage of the Kennedy motorcade, but also rare Dallas television coverage of the day, featuring the first interview with Abraham Zapruder shortly after the assassination.
“You can spend endless hours on YouTube listening to critics debunking the Warren Commission’s findings, commission defenders debunking conspiracy theorists, and debunkers debunking each other over every possible interpretation of every possible detail. The challenges and perils of navigating through the available material can provide useful lessons in discerning the quality of scholarship, ” Grady observes, ending on a hopeful note—particularly from a librarian’s perspective.
“The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1992, stipulates that all government documents related to the assassination will be released to the public in full in 2017.”Chris Nashawaty’s review of Jack Goldsmith’s “In Hoffa’s Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth” (Oct. 27) comments that the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa “remains one of the most notorious unsolved mysteries of the 20th century, along with the whereabouts of Amelia Earhart and the identity of the so-called second shooter on the grassy knoll.”
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This is a serious disservice to history. As the journalist who interviewed the pathologists who performed the autopsy on President John F. Kennedy for an exclusive report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in May 1992, I can definitively state that there was no second shooter from the grassy knoll or anywhere else.
The pathologists proved at the autopsy table that the abrasion collar at the back of Kennedy’s neck and the beveling of his skull provided irrefutable evidence that the bullets traveled from rear to front, meaning that there was only one shooter — Lee Harvey Oswald.
The New York Times commended this reporting in a Page 1 article published on May 20, 1992, and reinforced the evidence with an editorial. “Two shots from the rear, ” the Times editorial concluded. “The Journal of the American Medical Association has performed a service for reasonable people and reason. … This basic physical evidence survives and, to all those willing to listen, it offers proof against paranoia.”
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Orlando Patterson’s review of Corey Robin’s argument against Clarence Thomas’s fundamental position in “The Enigma of Clarence Thomas” (Oct. 20) displays once again how the liberals’ approach to the poor triggers opposition.
Too often the sentiment behind it is that we must “help” them or “atone” for what has happened to them. Thomas says that such approaches are demeaning and worsen their condition. I believe that a proper approach would be to improve our infrastructure and educational system and provide the “beneficiaries” with the opportunity to contribute to meeting the needs of society.
Sharon Weinberger’s review of Stephen Kinzer’s “Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the C.I.A. Search for Mind Control” (Oct. 20) states that Frank Olson “jumped, or was possibly pushed, out of a hotel room window in New York in 1953.” According to H.P. Albarelli Jr.’s book “A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the C.I.A.’s Secret Cold War Experiments, ” Olson was in fact pushed. Interestingly, Weinberger mentions the docudrama “Wormwood, ” but doesn’t mention Albarelli’s book.
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A biographical note on Oct. 27 with the Otherworldly column misstated the title of a short story written by the columnist, Amal El-Mohtar. It is “Seasons of Glass and Iron, ” not “Seasons of Glass and Wine.”
The True Crime roundup on Oct. 27 misstated the age of Ramona Wilson, an Indigenous girl who vanished in British Columbia in 1994 and whose remains were found a year later. She was 16 at the time of her disappearance, not 15.
The Inside the List column last Sunday misstated the best-seller ranking of “Olive, Again, ” by Elizabeth Strout, on the hardcover fiction list. It debuted at No. 6, not No. 4.
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