Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s column remembers the left’s reaction to JFK’s assassination — an immediate, substanceless accusation that the right was responsible, whatever the facts might be.
On matters where legal guilt is not the issue, people tend to draw their passionate conclusions snap-shut; quite as though they were standing under the great sycamore tree tugging on the rope bound to the neck of the victim they hate.
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