Now there would never be a confession, or even a chance to ask basic questions. And there would be no trial, no public sifting of evidence, no impartial jury to weigh the facts and come to a court-sanctioned decision. When Hoover awoke that morning, it had all seemed surprisingly simple: a suspect was in custody, his rifle and bullets at the lab, the background evidence building nicely. Now the Kennedy assassination was no longer a criminal matter but a fast-evolving source of speculation, uncertainty, and finger-pointing.
