FOREVER CHANGED: How A Chance Association With Lee Harvey Oswald Irreversibly Altered A Life
“The thing that I’ve learned over my lifetime is that you can’t tell someone what they don’t want to know.” Buell Wesley Frazier
It’s November 22nd, 2021, the 58th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Buell Wesley Frazier is giving a talk at The Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. The museum’s location once housed the Texas School Book Depository where Buell worked alongside Lee Oswald, the president’s alleged assassin. As he had done numerous times before, Buell gave Lee a ride to work the day Kennedy came to Dallas. After Buell concludes his talk, there is still time to take some questions from the audience before they all observe a moment of silence at 12:30 PM, the time Kennedy was shot.
“Do you relive that day every day in your mind?” asks an audience member. Buell is silent for a few seconds before admitting that he is constantly looking back, analyzing the events of that day and asking himself, “How did you miss that?” The 78-year-old adds, “Since that day, it’s been a long road for me.”
The Kennedy assassination has been the subject of thousands of books, films, and documentaries. There is no shortage of theories about what actually happened in Dallas that day and who was responsible. Just about anyone who was alive and…