Musical Interlude: Assassination and America
Since assassinations are apparently a thing again, I thought I’d revisit the assassination.
Thanks to my best bud, I saw Bob, Willie, and John Couger recently. According to my friend of infinite knowledge, Bob has never played this song live.
Here’s his Moby Dick. All 17 minutes of it.
(If you can make it to the end, it’s the musical equivalent of reading all of the Republic, Capital, War and Peace, or Being and Time- go for it).
WD. Thank you for posting this. I hadn’t heard the song before. It sure touches lots of bases.
That Zapruder image. It’s been stuck in my mind ever since. Jackie reaching for pieces of his skull. As if it could be reattached. And the obvious evidence that the shot came from the front. But the old line came back: ‘who you going to believe, me or your own eyes?’