Reclaiming History
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* At 6:45 on the morning of December 12, 2003, a fifty-year-old Dallas man, Richard E. Clem, fired a bullet into his head while standing on the white X on Elm that marks where Kennedy was fatally wounded in the head forty years earlier. Clem, a twenty-seven-year postal employee, was found by the police lying in a pool of blood, his feet, perhaps unintentionally on his part, pointing toward the grassy knoll. Clem left no suicide note and his son was reluctant to say that his father’s decision to kill himself was due to the president’s assassination. He did say his father often went to Dealey Plaza to think, had read many books about the assassination, and was “greatly interested how our president could be murdered in broad daylight, in front of hundreds of people, police officers, secret service officers, etc., and still leave behind so many questions.” Clem was not known to be part of the conspiracy community. (Michael Grabell, “Man Found Shot Where JFK Slain,” Dallas Morning News, December 13, 2003, p.1B)