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oops... I forgot about the Chinese... the Muslims, Hindus and Chinese were far ahead of us until the 18th C.

Then some British Engineers discovered some new techniques for smelting iron very precisely and whoooooooooooooooooosh... 200 years later we're walking on the moon and everybody else is trailing way behind.

There should be a clear definition between an unanswered question of history and the study of misunderstood controversies in history. The actions of King Richard III in his betrayal of his brother are one thing. But the more interesting approach to the Kennedy Assassination is the study of how apocryphal "evidence" gets tagged and included in the collective public mindset of the people effected by this shocking tragedy.

The film JFK is now the de facto record of this event although it is much more of an amalgam and interpretation that is far from objective. That film was graphic and made new generations aware of the event, but not the facts.

The desire of the collective mind in dealing with shocking events is that reject the simplest form of truth and search for conspiracy and complication. Occam's Razor seems to apply universally except in situations like this. The Kennedy Assassination is viewed now like a parlor "Whodunnit" game.

The irony is that there is a law of diminishing returns on investigation. The longer one looks at something, the more the simple truth gets obscured. Just ask the O.J. Simpson Jury. Something that is shocking simply "must" have a far reaching and complex occult truth behind it.