FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY John F. Kennedy was assassinated. I was nineteen at the time, in my second semester of college after a six-month 'work phase' that took me to Europe and the Far East (Okinawa). I was going to lunch at the school cafeteria when the campus suddenly quietened and everyone knew that something bad had just happened. Kennedy's death was announced just moments after I arrived at the cafeteria.

Here are some thoughts on the assassination and the assassin from Kennedy historian Edward J. Epstein.

More context here.