Sixty years ago today, at 12:29 p.m. Central time, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Blame for the entire murder was quickly pinned on a “lone gunman,” a former Marine and avowed Communist who had defected to the Soviet Union only to quietly return, make his way to Dallas, then fire three shots from the Texas School Book Depository. The first hit JFK in the upper back. The second hit Texas Gov. John Connolly. The third was the horrific head shot that ended Camelot. The suspect’s name was Lee Harvey Oswald. Yet when dragged in front of the media, he would declare, “I’m a patsy!” Within 48 hours, he would be murdered on live TV while in police custody by a mob-connected club owner named Jack Ruby. Most of America immediately smelled a rat.

Then, when evidence proved the second shot from the Depository had missed, strongly indicating there had to be a second gunman, the official story started becoming unglued. The Warren Commission Report, designed not to find the truth, but to try and prove Oswald acted alone, swayed minds for a while. But as the years passed, with footage of the assassination released, and endless books, movies and documentaries probing every single angle and nuance of that day in Dallas, a broad majority of Americans have come to believe the official story is bunk (65% according to a Gallup Poll released last week.)

Sixty years later, the nation still feels the loss of its dashing young president, feels the unease of recognizing that forces far more powerful than Lee Oswald had a hand in his death.

The JFK Assassination Remains Timely

Sixty years after that horrible day in Dealy Plaza, JFK’s assassination remains in the news. One of the contenders for president is the nephew of JFK. And Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., makes no bones about it: he believes there is “overwhelming evidence” the CIA was behind his uncle’s death. Says he’s been told as much by those in the know.

Perhaps the nation’s hottest journalist, Tucker Carlson directly asked someone who has seen the still-unreleased CIA documents from the assassination, “Did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American President?” “The answer is yes, I believe they did.”

To this hour, six decades later, the CIA still won’t release all the documents it has in connection with the murder and with Lee Harvey Oswald, dating long before the events in Dallas.

Also, just weeks ago, one of the Secret Service agents closest to the President’s limo confessed a secret he had been holding on to since 1963. He had found the so-called “Magic Bullet,” which the Warren Commission claimed hit both Kennedy and Connolly, not on JFK’s stretcher at Parkland Memorial Hospital, but wedged in the back of the presidential limo. Meaning, there is absolutely no way the first shot fired at Kennedy hit the President and passed through Connolly. Meaning, by definition, there had to be a second gunman.

That news comes as no surprise to the doctors who first treated Kennedy when he arrived at Parkland. And Sunday night, their stories … some for the first time … were told.

The Doctors in Dallas Didn’t Buy the Official Story

A new documentary, JFK Assassination: What Happened in the Trauma Room, which aired in England, features the seven doctors who attended to Kennedy in the Trauma Room at Parkland Memorial Hospital. Most of the interviews were conducted in 2013, but are only now seeing the light.

The doctors make three crucial points:

1. The head wound they saw appeared to come from the front. For example, Dr. Joe Goldstrich, a fourth-year medical student in 1963, asks: ‘How could a gunshot from the rear peel the scalp from the front back?’
2. Some of the doctors also thought they saw an entry wound in Kennedy’s neck. That, too, would indicate shots fired from in front of the presidential limo.

   Witnesses on the famed “grassy knoll” thought shots had come from behind them, not from high up in the Texas School Book Depository to their left. Indeed, if you have been to Dealy Plaza, stood behind the wooden fence at the back corner of the knoll, you can see just how vulnerable JFK was from that position. (And for that matter, how much easier an escape was for a gunman.)

3. Perhaps more disturbing: In the documentary, the doctors see the official autopsy photos together for the first time. “They all concluded that the images looked different to what they had seen in the Parkland trauma room,” writes the Daily Mail. “This could mean the body was tampered with.”

The Crime Against America

The doctors who first treated Kennedy had no agenda to protect that November afternoon. They were trying to save the life of a 46-year-old man wheeled in, suffering from traumatic gunshot wounds. The wounds told the story of what happened. But if they — and mountains of other evidence are to be believed — that story got dramatically changed.

Someone, or a group of someones, decided We, the People, didn’t deserve to know the truth about what happened to our dashing young president. And they set out to create their own version of history. Indeed, they may well have carved it into the president’s body itself.

The named assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was quickly eliminated (to borrow the term used by Rep. Dan Goodman this week in regards to Trump.) Whether involved or not, Oswald had no trial by a jury of his peers. No chance to pose a defense. No semblance of “innocent until proven guilty.” Think of it. In school or in the media, is Oswald ever described as the “alleged assassin?”

A horrific crime was committed against America 60 years ago in Dallas. The murder of President John F. Kennedy was just the start of it.

None have been brought to proper justice. On this sixtieth anniversary of his death, we can best honor JFK by recommitting ourselves to ensuring the truth about Dallas comes to light. And to vow eternal vigilance against the still-lurking tyrannical forces that would take from us our duly elected leaders. It’s not history. It’s our country.

As Kennedy himself once said, “If not us, who? If not now, when?”

Al Perrotta is the Managing Editor of The Stream, co-author, with John Zmirak, of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and co-author of the counter-terrorism memoir Hostile Intent: Protecting Yourself Against Terrorism.