one of the great boomer psychoses is the belief that the kennedys, had they lived, would have delivered america into some kind of peaceful, social democratic utopia. what really happened is that the assassinations occurred when their childhoods were ending.
This is more or less the explicit theme of JFK, in Garrison's monologue, he describes the American people as a "nation of Hamlets...children of a slain father."
Also he says: "Going back to when we were children, I think most of us in this courtroom thought that justice came into being automatically, that virtue was its own reward, that good would triumph over evil. But as we get older we know that this just isn't true."
as america's great bard axl rose said: in my first memories, they shot kennedy, I went numb when i learned to see."
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