Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Joseph Backes is faulting me for putting this up, but my point was: Was it appropriate for a newspaper, just two days after the assassination, to make their front page headline story that LBJ had scheduled a high-level meeting about Vietnam? 

Why should the biggest headline be about Johnson acting out about Vietnam? Weren't Americans still reeling from what happened? Weren't their thoughts with Kennedy and his family? Why would the editor of the newspaper think that, at a time like that, people would want to hear about Johnson taking over and changing policy in Vietnam? Wasn't that turning the page a little too fast? It was just Sunday morning. 

What if Kennedy had been their brother or their son? Would they be ready by Sunday to "move on" and start thinking about Vietnam and the need for a policy change? I realize that John Kennedy was not their brother or son, but the fact is: Americans felt a lot of warmth for the First Family. And, the pain they felt over Kennedy's death was personal and heartfelt. What I'm saying is that it was very inconsiderate and insensitive of the newspaper to make that their headline on Sunday, November 24, 1963. There was plenty of room in the back of the newspaper for that. Again: we're talking about the headline of the newspaper being: "Johnson acts quickly in Viet Nam flareup" and that's on the Sunday morning after the Friday afternoon killing of John Kennedy. It's not OK.