Or fail to participate in one’s perfection through grace. (fail to grow as a person)

I agree… it seems a little silly, considering discrepancies in the official time of death as a result of trying to convince the widowed (or soon to be widowed) Jackie Kennedy that her husband had received last rights.

In all likelihood, it seems less plausible that he survived long after the second shot, in my mind.

The last rites cannot be perfomed if the person is already dead. Not even if recently dead; the priest needs to confess you, so you may cleanse your soul before facing God during your final judgement. I imagine a corpse would be quite reticent to utter its sins…

That’s why in all those old b&g movies you see the grave-looking doctor exit the room of the sick character, stating that there’s nothing more left to do, immediately followed by the priest rushing in, for his time “at the at” had come.

So the charade that JFK was still moribund when he was rushed to the hospital is even more ridiculous. It’s probable the man died instantly after the second shot (from who knows where) pierced his cranium and shattered his brain.

Well, maybe nt that amazing. After all, that trauma is what made America lose its innocence; before that the American people still believed in Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, apple pie, and that good always triumphs against evil —that’s why they went overseas to fight the bogeyman (Hitler).

But with JFK the notion that authorites may lie to the citizens, and the realization that evil overcomes good most of the time, ended the childhood of the American people.

And now here we are: We’ve reached a point in history when never before has the private citizen had access to more information; and it’s completely useless because nobody trusts anything the government or appointed officials say! Swine flu? I don’t trust the vaccine; Financial rescue? I don’t trust Washington; Global Warming? I don’t trust the UN…

And I think a lot of that it’s because of that infamous day in Dallas.

Yeah, I agree that there is a possibility LBJ might have just suffered from something along the lines of manic depressive disorder… would he necessarily have had to be involved in a conspiracy to express irrational fear immediately after JFK’s assassination? He was no doubt in shock, although there are many stories that talk about the odd ways LBJ tended to handle stress, etc.

Also an interesting bit about the photograph of Oswald holding the gun you found… it’s amazing that so many decades later “fresh” evidence continues to stream forth about this mother-of-all conspiracies.

Here’s one more:

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/11/jfk-jackie-a-dying-wish.html

Was the official time of death reported by the Warren Commission a fabrication to ease Jackie’s concerns for JFK’s mortal soul?

-Micah!

“Iconic Photo Of JFK Assassin Oswald Was Not Faked, Professor Finds

ScienceDaily (Nov. 6, 2009) — Dartmouth computer scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally analyzed an iconic image of Oswald pictured in a backyard setting holding a rifle in one hand and Marxist newspapers in the other.”

Read more:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091105121209.htm

On the other hand, it might show that, if there really was a conspiracy, that Johnson was not part of it; at least at the beginning of it.