After a half-century of wondering and a quarter-century of waiting for valid answers, we now have the chance to discover what really happened in Dallas 54 years ago. The President can help. He probably needs a push, from you.

And now it begins: Should Gordon have gone for home? The argument will never end. Nor, we should hope, will the excitement of World Series baseball.

“Travelers along the Mediterranean-to-Jerusalem corridor could stop, drop a quarter in a telescope and watch the Arabs fighting each other. That show would go on forever, because that’s what Arabs do: fight each other. Back in Baja’s garden of Eban, it would be almost Biblical.”