President Kennedy counted on our repression and denial of its reality. They knew that no one would want to deal with the elephant in the living room. The Dallas and Bethesda doctors who saw the truth staring up at them from the president’s dead body, and who then backed away from it, were not unique. They are symbolic of us all. Those who dared to break the conspiracy of silence risked consequences more severe than the assassination of one’s character. Dr. Crenshaw said he “reasoned that anyone who would go so far as to eliminate the President of the United States would surely not hesitate to
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