Bullets at Dealey

"What's the simplest explanation? The one everyone wants to hear."

"That it was just a shooter?"

"That's it! The idea the public wants to buy. That a conspiracy to kill the president of the United States is impossible."

"There will always be those who doubt an explanation like that."

"What matters is now, then we think about the future. We need to show that everything is working as it always has, as it always was and will be. That's what people want to hear."

"What if the witnesses decide to speak out?"

"We'll find a way, as we always have."

"A way? What way?"

"Don't be naive, you know."

"And even then, if some nosy person decides to investigate, you know, people love conspiracy theories. And this case fits like a glove."

"Just eliminate the essential evidence. They'll try to guess what happened, without ever finding the key piece that solves the puzzle."

"It still seems risky."

"We always do that."

"Always with others, in other places."

"Our specialty, the bad luck is that now there's been a big mistake, it happens. Do what? Just follow the protocol, everything will be fine."

"In America? People aren't afraid of anything."

"But most people just want the right answers. They're as gullible as anywhere else. You just have to give them what they want to believe."

"And if they decide to investigate, maybe write books?"

"I told you, that's in the future. If that's the case, we'll come up with the theories, don't we pay people to do that? Books and books with the most bizarre theories, maybe even movies. The public loves it. We just can't let the truth come out, that's what matters now."

"What about ten years from now?"

"Even a hundred years from now. Go call him, we don't have time to waste."

"He's just an idealist."

"Just another unlucky idiot. Who told him to go where he didn't belong?"

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Fiction inspired by real events.