We just watched "The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy", which was actually very interesting. They completely debunk all of the conspiracy theories revolving around John F. Kennedy's death. No one wants to believe that life is that chaotic and random, so we make up conspiracies I guess. At the end of the show they quote William Manchester as saying:
"Those who desperately want to believe that President Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy have my sympathy. I share their yearning. To employ what may seem an odd metaphor, there is an esthetic principle here. If you put six million dead Jews on one side of a scale and on the other side put the Nazi regime -- the greatest gang of criminals ever to seize control of a modern state -- you have a rough balance: greatest crime, greatest criminals. But if you put the murdered President of the United States on one side of a scale and that wretched waif Oswald on the other side, it doesn't balance. You want to add something weightier to Oswald. It would invest the President's death with meaning, endowing him with martyrdom. He would have died for something."
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