Unlike some, I do not see this as the day America lost it's innocence. It had lost that years before, quicker than a drunken high-school girl loses her panties. The revisionist thinkers who want to mythologize Kennedy love to cite this as a great turning point in history. In fact there is little evidence to support such a theory. The true tragedy was the evident conspiracy (evident to anyone but the Warren Commission anyway) and the disinformation campaign to cover up whatever the truth was from the public.
