November 22, 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of the most horrific event to happen to a nation, as President #35 was taken down by a lone, communist-sympathizing drifter for no  reason other than he wanted to be famous. To this day the vast majority of Americans refuse to believe that someone so insignificant could change the course of history. But yet it happened. For all the similarities between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, JFK’s may have been more shocking, as President #16 was a wanted man within the confines of the very  United States he had just saved and John Wilkes Booth was determined to make Lincoln his victim. He left a trail. Kennedy was as popular a president as there could be and his charisma was what was needed in the early 1960′s. Oswald had no long term plans that were ever uncovered that this was how he would change history. There was no trail. He ended up in Dallas by virtue of his inability to make something of himself. And Kennedy was there to win over the people from Texas, which he did in short order.  What took place in Dealey Plaza that afternoon and the images that have remained for 50 years are as fresh today as it was on November 22nd, 1963. Conspiracy or not (which there wasn’t).