WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.340 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.340 --> 00:00:03.230 align:middle line:84% I'm supposed to begin this assignment 00:00:03.230 --> 00:00:05.790 align:middle line:84% and I'm going to try to just go into it. 00:00:05.790 --> 00:00:07.280 align:middle line:90% It's not a lot of time. 00:00:07.280 --> 00:00:10.370 align:middle line:84% I am happy and grateful to be here. 00:00:10.370 --> 00:00:13.080 align:middle line:84% I'm going to warn you, this is a work of the imagination. 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:15.140 align:middle line:84% It's neither fiction or non-fiction. 00:00:15.140 --> 00:00:18.050 align:middle line:84% It is actually what you take it to be. 00:00:18.050 --> 00:00:20.060 align:middle line:90% So there's that. 00:00:20.060 --> 00:00:21.470 align:middle line:90% And it'll seem-- 00:00:21.470 --> 00:00:22.580 align:middle line:90% I won't explain first. 00:00:22.580 --> 00:00:23.840 align:middle line:90% I'll do it then explain. 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:26.750 align:middle line:84% And I'll do it in [? each ?] sections 00:00:26.750 --> 00:00:30.860 align:middle line:84% that made collage and transition right into each other. 00:00:30.860 --> 00:00:32.210 align:middle line:90% So give it a chance. 00:00:32.210 --> 00:00:35.362 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.362 --> 00:00:37.320 align:middle line:84% [MUSIC - BARBER, "ADAGIO FOR STRINGS, OPUS 11"] 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:41.670 align:middle line:84% "A Poet's Guide to the Assassination of JFK. 00:00:41.670 --> 00:00:42.960 align:middle line:90% The Assassination of Poetry. 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:45.710 align:middle line:90% 00:00:45.710 --> 00:00:54.970 align:middle line:84% Or, how I learned that I was writing a cover story poetics. 00:00:54.970 --> 00:00:57.485 align:middle line:90% Air Force One. 00:00:57.485 --> 00:00:57.985 align:middle line:90% Yaddo. 00:00:57.985 --> 00:01:01.850 align:middle line:90% 00:01:01.850 --> 00:01:04.580 align:middle line:90% American Rifleman. 00:01:04.580 --> 00:01:07.570 align:middle line:90% American Poetry Review. 00:01:07.570 --> 00:01:12.730 align:middle line:90% Anti-Castro Cubans. 00:01:12.730 --> 00:01:15.390 align:middle line:90% Cave Canem. 00:01:15.390 --> 00:01:18.510 align:middle line:90% Arlington National Cemetery. 00:01:18.510 --> 00:01:20.880 align:middle line:90% AWP. 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:24.240 align:middle line:84% The Assassinations Records Review board. 00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:27.030 align:middle line:90% The Paris Review. 00:01:27.030 --> 00:01:28.860 align:middle line:90% Autopsy. 00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:31.560 align:middle line:90% Diving into the Wreck. 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:33.780 align:middle line:90% Autopsy photos. 00:01:33.780 --> 00:01:36.840 align:middle line:90% Disembodied poetics. 00:01:36.840 --> 00:01:39.720 align:middle line:90% Autopsy photos (altered). 00:01:39.720 --> 00:01:43.470 align:middle line:90% Exquisite corpse. 00:01:43.470 --> 00:01:45.720 align:middle line:90% Back brace. 00:01:45.720 --> 00:01:47.880 align:middle line:90% Back issues. 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:49.860 align:middle line:90% Badge man. 00:01:49.860 --> 00:01:52.620 align:middle line:90% William Logan. 00:01:52.620 --> 00:01:56.670 align:middle line:90% "Barber's Adagio for Strings." 00:01:56.670 --> 00:01:57.675 align:middle line:90% Come all Ye Ghost. 00:01:57.675 --> 00:02:01.570 align:middle line:90% 00:02:01.570 --> 00:02:04.120 align:middle line:90% Big oil. 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:05.125 align:middle line:90% The Nobel Prize. 00:02:05.125 --> 00:02:09.020 align:middle line:90% 00:02:09.020 --> 00:02:11.700 align:middle line:90% Brains and eggs. 00:02:11.700 --> 00:02:14.820 align:middle line:90% Contributors bio. 00:02:14.820 --> 00:02:17.040 align:middle line:90% May Russell. 00:02:17.040 --> 00:02:19.420 align:middle line:90% Grace Cavaleri. 00:02:19.420 --> 00:02:19.920 align:middle line:90% George. 00:02:19.920 --> 00:02:22.410 align:middle line:90% H.W. Bush. 00:02:22.410 --> 00:02:25.290 align:middle line:90% The Yale Younger. 00:02:25.290 --> 00:02:27.960 align:middle line:90% CIA. 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:29.830 align:middle line:90% PSA. 00:02:29.830 --> 00:02:32.490 align:middle line:90% Poetry Society of America. 00:02:32.490 --> 00:02:36.400 align:middle line:84% The CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center. 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:36.900 align:middle line:90% Kinko's. 00:02:36.900 --> 00:02:39.750 align:middle line:90% 00:02:39.750 --> 00:02:42.510 align:middle line:90% Cabinet plane over the Pacific. 00:02:42.510 --> 00:02:45.480 align:middle line:90% The Cloud Corporation. 00:02:45.480 --> 00:02:47.550 align:middle line:90% Camelot. 00:02:47.550 --> 00:02:49.760 align:middle line:90% Favor and favor. 00:02:49.760 --> 00:02:51.110 align:middle line:90% The president lancer. 00:02:51.110 --> 00:02:52.460 align:middle line:90% The first lady lace. 00:02:52.460 --> 00:02:53.480 align:middle line:90% Caroline Kennedy. 00:02:53.480 --> 00:02:54.170 align:middle line:90% Lyric. 00:02:54.170 --> 00:02:58.940 align:middle line:90% John F. Kennedy Jr. Lark. 00:02:58.940 --> 00:03:01.340 align:middle line:90% Jack Ruby's the Carousel Club. 00:03:01.340 --> 00:03:04.130 align:middle line:90% Best American Poetry. 00:03:04.130 --> 00:03:07.490 align:middle line:90% Casket, bronze ceremonial. 00:03:07.490 --> 00:03:08.660 align:middle line:90% First edition. 00:03:08.660 --> 00:03:11.090 align:middle line:90% Casket, metal shipping. 00:03:11.090 --> 00:03:12.440 align:middle line:90% Second printing. 00:03:12.440 --> 00:03:15.050 align:middle line:90% Fidel Castro. 00:03:15.050 --> 00:03:15.650 align:middle line:90% Amiri Baraka. 00:03:15.650 --> 00:03:18.630 align:middle line:90% 00:03:18.630 --> 00:03:22.340 align:middle line:90% John and Nellie Connally. 00:03:22.340 --> 00:03:25.910 align:middle line:90% Kingsley and Kate Toughs. 00:03:25.910 --> 00:03:28.970 align:middle line:90% John Connolly's wounds. 00:03:28.970 --> 00:03:31.820 align:middle line:90% "Four Quartets." 00:03:31.820 --> 00:03:33.230 align:middle line:90% Conspiracy realists. 00:03:33.230 --> 00:03:33.980 align:middle line:90% Harriet. 00:03:33.980 --> 00:03:36.080 align:middle line:90% Conspiracy Theorists. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:37.280 align:middle line:90% Scarriet. 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:39.200 align:middle line:90% Counterfeit agents. 00:03:39.200 --> 00:03:41.870 align:middle line:90% Contest judges. 00:03:41.870 --> 00:03:43.780 align:middle line:90% The cover up. 00:03:43.780 --> 00:03:46.000 align:middle line:90% Language. 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.460 align:middle line:90% Walter Cronkite. 00:03:48.460 --> 00:03:51.060 align:middle line:90% Robert Pinsky. 00:03:51.060 --> 00:03:52.500 align:middle line:90% Dallas. 00:03:52.500 --> 00:03:54.210 align:middle line:90% The triggering town. 00:03:54.210 --> 00:03:55.740 align:middle line:90% Dallas police. 00:03:55.740 --> 00:03:57.428 align:middle line:90% Publishers Weekly. 00:03:57.428 --> 00:04:01.100 align:middle line:90% 00:04:01.100 --> 00:04:03.830 align:middle line:90% Dealey Plaza. 00:04:03.830 --> 00:04:06.170 align:middle line:90% Page. 00:04:06.170 --> 00:04:09.120 align:middle line:90% 31 motionless people. 00:04:09.120 --> 00:04:12.020 align:middle line:90% Poetry reading audience. 00:04:12.020 --> 00:04:15.110 align:middle line:90% The decision to go to the moon. 00:04:15.110 --> 00:04:16.445 align:middle line:90% Delilah Belle Wallace. 00:04:16.445 --> 00:04:20.000 align:middle line:90% 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:21.560 align:middle line:90% Double arrest. 00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:22.760 align:middle line:90% Oswald. 00:04:22.760 --> 00:04:25.610 align:middle line:90% Double take. 00:04:25.610 --> 00:04:27.470 align:middle line:90% Elm Street ex. 00:04:27.470 --> 00:04:28.310 align:middle line:90% Scansion. 00:04:28.310 --> 00:04:29.810 align:middle line:90% The eternal flame. 00:04:29.810 --> 00:04:32.070 align:middle line:90% Robert Frost. 00:04:32.070 --> 00:04:33.500 align:middle line:90% FBI. 00:04:33.500 --> 00:04:35.240 align:middle line:90% Invoices. 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:38.070 align:middle line:90% Paper trail. 00:04:38.070 --> 00:04:40.560 align:middle line:90% Fake defectors program. 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:42.890 align:middle line:90% The baffler. 00:04:42.890 --> 00:04:44.360 align:middle line:90% Jim Garrison. 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:45.920 align:middle line:90% New directions. 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.210 align:middle line:90% Grassy knoll. 00:04:47.210 --> 00:04:48.410 align:middle line:90% Stage. 00:04:48.410 --> 00:04:49.970 align:middle line:90% The Great Society. 00:04:49.970 --> 00:04:52.100 align:middle line:90% Po-biz. 00:04:52.100 --> 00:04:55.520 align:middle line:84% The Hertz clock Atop Dealey Plaza. 00:04:55.520 --> 00:04:58.450 align:middle line:90% Noonday. 00:04:58.450 --> 00:04:59.800 align:middle line:90% Hotel Texas. . 00:04:59.800 --> 00:05:01.720 align:middle line:90% 10 house J. Edgar Hoover. 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:04.330 align:middle line:90% Richard Howard. 00:05:04.330 --> 00:05:06.490 align:middle line:90% Illuminati. 00:05:06.490 --> 00:05:08.860 align:middle line:90% Lanham. 00:05:08.860 --> 00:05:11.290 align:middle line:90% I am just a Patsy. 00:05:11.290 --> 00:05:12.490 align:middle line:90% Mexico City Blues. 00:05:12.490 --> 00:05:16.460 align:middle line:90% 00:05:16.460 --> 00:05:19.040 align:middle line:90% JFK's brain. 00:05:19.040 --> 00:05:22.080 align:middle line:90% Received forms. 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:23.700 align:middle line:90% Joseph P. Kennedy. 00:05:23.700 --> 00:05:25.500 align:middle line:90% Ulysses. 00:05:25.500 --> 00:05:27.510 align:middle line:90% Rose F. Kennedy. 00:05:27.510 --> 00:05:29.040 align:middle line:90% Ariel. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:30.870 align:middle line:90% Kennedy compound. 00:05:30.870 --> 00:05:32.460 align:middle line:90% The Fine Arts Work Center. 00:05:32.460 --> 00:05:33.750 align:middle line:90% Kennedy half dollar. 00:05:33.750 --> 00:05:35.370 align:middle line:90% The three penny review. 00:05:35.370 --> 00:05:37.350 align:middle line:90% The Kennedy Johnson ticket. 00:05:37.350 --> 00:05:39.360 align:middle line:84% The prolific and the [? derived ?].. 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:41.250 align:middle line:90% Nikita Khrushchev. 00:05:41.250 --> 00:05:42.030 align:middle line:90% Peter Sellers. 00:05:42.030 --> 00:05:45.550 align:middle line:90% 00:05:45.550 --> 00:05:47.500 align:middle line:90% The kill zone. 00:05:47.500 --> 00:05:50.920 align:middle line:90% Index of first lines. 00:05:50.920 --> 00:05:54.250 align:middle line:84% Mary Jo Kopechne, Government girl. 00:05:54.250 --> 00:05:55.600 align:middle line:90% Lamb chop puppet. 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:57.760 align:middle line:90% Anaphora. 00:05:57.760 --> 00:05:59.630 align:middle line:90% Lone nut. 00:05:59.630 --> 00:06:00.130 align:middle line:90% Iowa. 00:06:00.130 --> 00:06:02.650 align:middle line:90% 00:06:02.650 --> 00:06:03.910 align:middle line:90% Love Field. 00:06:03.910 --> 00:06:05.470 align:middle line:90% The MacDowell Colony. 00:06:05.470 --> 00:06:06.850 align:middle line:90% The magic bullet. 00:06:06.850 --> 00:06:09.910 align:middle line:90% The Pulitzer Prize. 00:06:09.910 --> 00:06:11.110 align:middle line:90% Marilyn mailer. 00:06:11.110 --> 00:06:13.800 align:middle line:90% Norman Monroe. 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:17.530 align:middle line:90% The military industrial complex. 00:06:17.530 --> 00:06:19.330 align:middle line:90% Bomb. 00:06:19.330 --> 00:06:21.310 align:middle line:90% Eisenhower warning. 00:06:21.310 --> 00:06:23.440 align:middle line:90% The cantus. 00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:24.580 align:middle line:90% The mob. 00:06:24.580 --> 00:06:25.860 align:middle line:90% Poetry Foundation. 00:06:25.860 --> 00:06:29.470 align:middle line:90% 00:06:29.470 --> 00:06:30.310 align:middle line:90% Moscow. 00:06:30.310 --> 00:06:31.240 align:middle line:90% Washington. 00:06:31.240 --> 00:06:32.800 align:middle line:90% Hotline. 00:06:32.800 --> 00:06:35.170 align:middle line:90% The KGB bar. 00:06:35.170 --> 00:06:36.670 align:middle line:90% Motorcade route. 00:06:36.670 --> 00:06:37.855 align:middle line:90% The road not taken. 00:06:37.855 --> 00:06:41.150 align:middle line:90% 00:06:41.150 --> 00:06:42.530 align:middle line:90% The Murchison mansion. 00:06:42.530 --> 00:06:45.650 align:middle line:90% All the vise President's Men. 00:06:45.650 --> 00:06:48.350 align:middle line:84% My God, they're going to kill us all. 00:06:48.350 --> 00:06:49.190 align:middle line:90% Lit crit. 00:06:49.190 --> 00:06:50.450 align:middle line:90% The new frontier. 00:06:50.450 --> 00:06:51.440 align:middle line:90% The internet. 00:06:51.440 --> 00:06:52.350 align:middle line:90% New Orleans. 00:06:52.350 --> 00:06:53.070 align:middle line:90% Louisiana. 00:06:53.070 --> 00:06:53.570 align:middle line:90% Marfa. 00:06:53.570 --> 00:06:54.230 align:middle line:90% Atlanta. 00:06:54.230 --> 00:06:55.310 align:middle line:90% The Newman family. 00:06:55.310 --> 00:06:56.210 align:middle line:90% The new school. 00:06:56.210 --> 00:06:58.490 align:middle line:90% 9/11 Commission Report. 00:06:58.490 --> 00:07:00.470 align:middle line:90% Poetry writing sample. 00:07:00.470 --> 00:07:02.060 align:middle line:90% 571 pages. 00:07:02.060 --> 00:07:04.730 align:middle line:90% 00:07:04.730 --> 00:07:06.230 align:middle line:90% Richard Nixon. 00:07:06.230 --> 00:07:07.700 align:middle line:90% A local storm. 00:07:07.700 --> 00:07:08.720 align:middle line:90% Departures. 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.120 align:middle line:90% Jackie O. Sharon Olds. 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:14.180 align:middle line:90% 00:07:14.180 --> 00:07:16.550 align:middle line:90% Oil depletion allowance. 00:07:16.550 --> 00:07:18.290 align:middle line:90% "Sympathy for the Devil." 00:07:18.290 --> 00:07:19.730 align:middle line:90% Aristotle Onassis. 00:07:19.730 --> 00:07:21.590 align:middle line:90% Antaeus. 00:07:21.590 --> 00:07:22.220 align:middle line:90% Orville Nix. 00:07:22.220 --> 00:07:23.270 align:middle line:90% Paul Simon. 00:07:23.270 --> 00:07:24.770 align:middle line:90% Orville Nix's film. 00:07:24.770 --> 00:07:26.240 align:middle line:90% "The Sounds of Silence." 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.130 align:middle line:90% Orville Nix's film altered. 00:07:28.130 --> 00:07:29.225 align:middle line:90% "The Sounds of Silence." 00:07:29.225 --> 00:07:34.120 align:middle line:90% 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:37.200 align:middle line:90% Lee Harvey Oswald. 00:07:37.200 --> 00:07:38.070 align:middle line:90% Spoken word. 00:07:38.070 --> 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00:09:01.520 --> 00:09:02.750 align:middle line:90% Shadow government. 00:09:02.750 --> 00:09:06.380 align:middle line:90% The Amy long Travel Scholarship. 00:09:06.380 --> 00:09:07.730 align:middle line:90% Sirhan Sirhan. 00:09:07.730 --> 00:09:09.920 align:middle line:90% Schiavone Schiavone. 00:09:09.920 --> 00:09:11.720 align:middle line:90% The sixth floor window. 00:09:11.720 --> 00:09:14.480 align:middle line:90% Parnassus. 00:09:14.480 --> 00:09:15.860 align:middle line:90% Oliver Stone. 00:09:15.860 --> 00:09:18.320 align:middle line:90% Brian Turner. 00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:19.730 align:middle line:90% Sturgis Frank. 00:09:19.730 --> 00:09:22.940 align:middle line:90% Frank Sinatra. 00:09:22.940 --> 00:09:24.410 align:middle line:90% Texas. 00:09:24.410 --> 00:09:26.870 align:middle line:90% Amazon.com. 00:09:26.870 --> 00:09:29.360 align:middle line:90% Texas School Book Depository. 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:31.790 align:middle line:90% Dodge Poetry Festival. 00:09:31.790 --> 00:09:32.810 align:middle line:90% Texas Theater. 00:09:32.810 --> 00:09:34.760 align:middle line:90% City lights. 00:09:34.760 --> 00:09:36.770 align:middle line:90% Helen Thomas. 00:09:36.770 --> 00:09:37.400 align:middle line:90% Catalog. 00:09:37.400 --> 00:09:38.240 align:middle line:90% Copy. 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:39.770 align:middle line:90% Print and electronic. 00:09:39.770 --> 00:09:41.390 align:middle line:90% Officer J.D. Tippit. 00:09:41.390 --> 00:09:42.860 align:middle line:90% Tony Hoagland. 00:09:42.860 --> 00:09:43.640 align:middle line:90% Spent 00:09:43.640 --> 00:09:45.170 align:middle line:90% [GUN SOUNDS] 00:09:45.170 --> 00:09:46.970 align:middle line:90% Cartridges. 00:09:46.970 --> 00:09:49.220 align:middle line:90% Five metaphysical poets. 00:09:49.220 --> 00:09:50.540 align:middle line:90% The three tramps. 00:09:50.540 --> 00:09:52.700 align:middle line:90% ABC, CBS, NBC. 00:09:52.700 --> 00:09:55.490 align:middle line:90% This t-shirt is unfair. 00:09:55.490 --> 00:09:57.140 align:middle line:90% The New Yorker. 00:09:57.140 --> 00:09:59.120 align:middle line:90% Triangulation. 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:01.220 align:middle line:84% The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. 00:10:01.220 --> 00:10:02.330 align:middle line:90% Triple underpass. 00:10:02.330 --> 00:10:03.290 align:middle line:90% Lyrical Ballads. 00:10:03.290 --> 00:10:05.300 align:middle line:90% The tunnels under Dallas. 00:10:05.300 --> 00:10:07.910 align:middle line:90% The tenure track. 00:10:07.910 --> 00:10:09.650 align:middle line:90% 12:00 noon to 1:00 PM. 00:10:09.650 --> 00:10:11.240 align:middle line:90% Skunk hour. 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:12.440 align:middle line:90% UFO Files. 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:13.790 align:middle line:90% Slush pile. 00:10:13.790 --> 00:10:14.720 align:middle line:90% The umbrella. 00:10:14.720 --> 00:10:16.280 align:middle line:90% Bread Loaf Writers Conference. 00:10:16.280 --> 00:10:17.240 align:middle line:90% Umbrella Man. 00:10:17.240 --> 00:10:18.125 align:middle line:90% Michael Collier. 00:10:18.125 --> 00:10:24.620 align:middle line:90% 00:10:24.620 --> 00:10:25.880 align:middle line:90% The umbrella system. 00:10:25.880 --> 00:10:30.820 align:middle line:84% Waiters, fellow scholars, faculty, and guests. 00:10:30.820 --> 00:10:32.260 align:middle line:90% Vietnam. 00:10:32.260 --> 00:10:34.810 align:middle line:90% Squaw Valley. 00:10:34.810 --> 00:10:36.700 align:middle line:90% War is hell. 00:10:36.700 --> 00:10:41.080 align:middle line:84% National Poetry Slam Championships. 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:42.670 align:middle line:90% Earl Warren. 00:10:42.670 --> 00:10:44.470 align:middle line:90% Robert Penn Warren. 00:10:44.470 --> 00:10:47.350 align:middle line:84% Richard Russell Jr. Richard Eberhardt. 00:10:47.350 --> 00:10:48.850 align:middle line:90% John Sherman Cooper. 00:10:48.850 --> 00:10:50.080 align:middle line:90% Daniel Hoffman. 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:51.250 align:middle line:90% Hell Boggs. 00:10:51.250 --> 00:10:52.360 align:middle line:90% Reed Whitmore. 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:54.910 align:middle line:90% Gerald Ford. 00:10:54.910 --> 00:10:56.800 align:middle line:90% William Meredith. 00:10:56.800 --> 00:10:58.540 align:middle line:90% Allen Dulles. 00:10:58.540 --> 00:11:00.310 align:middle line:90% Allen Tate. 00:11:00.310 --> 00:11:02.200 align:middle line:90% John Jay McCoy. 00:11:02.200 --> 00:11:03.730 align:middle line:90% Robert Fitzgerald. 00:11:03.730 --> 00:11:05.440 align:middle line:90% Arlen Specter. 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:08.780 align:middle line:90% Dana Gioia. 00:11:08.780 --> 00:11:11.390 align:middle line:90% Warren Commission Report. 00:11:11.390 --> 00:11:15.990 align:middle line:84% Self portrait in a convex mirror. 00:11:15.990 --> 00:11:18.020 align:middle line:90% Washington. 00:11:18.020 --> 00:11:20.990 align:middle line:90% National Endowment for the Arts. 00:11:20.990 --> 00:11:22.520 align:middle line:90% Watergate. 00:11:22.520 --> 00:11:23.610 align:middle line:90% The Book of Nightmares. 00:11:23.610 --> 00:11:25.730 align:middle line:90% The White House. 00:11:25.730 --> 00:11:28.100 align:middle line:90% Playboy Mansion. 00:11:28.100 --> 00:11:32.940 align:middle line:84% The white [? oak ?] cliffs Of Dover Beach. 00:11:32.940 --> 00:11:34.470 align:middle line:90% Witnesses. 00:11:34.470 --> 00:11:35.520 align:middle line:90% The nation. 00:11:35.520 --> 00:11:38.070 align:middle line:90% Disappearing witnesses. 00:11:38.070 --> 00:11:39.870 align:middle line:90% Out of print titles. 00:11:39.870 --> 00:11:42.630 align:middle line:90% Witness testimonies. 00:11:42.630 --> 00:11:45.570 align:middle line:90% Uncorrected proofs. 00:11:45.570 --> 00:11:47.850 align:middle line:90% Abraham Zapruder. 00:11:47.850 --> 00:11:50.050 align:middle line:90% Joseph Campbell. 00:11:50.050 --> 00:11:52.290 align:middle line:90% The Zapruder film. 00:11:52.290 --> 00:11:53.295 align:middle line:90% The power of myth. 00:11:53.295 --> 00:11:56.560 align:middle line:90% 00:11:56.560 --> 00:11:58.750 align:middle line:90% Freemasons. 00:11:58.750 --> 00:11:59.485 align:middle line:90% Free verse. 00:11:59.485 --> 00:12:02.790 align:middle line:90% 00:12:02.790 --> 00:12:04.950 align:middle line:90% Mark Lane. 00:12:04.950 --> 00:12:07.890 align:middle line:90% Mark Strand. 00:12:07.890 --> 00:12:10.740 align:middle line:90% Limousine right rear tail light. 00:12:10.740 --> 00:12:14.930 align:middle line:90% The Autobiography of Red. 00:12:14.930 --> 00:12:19.310 align:middle line:90% Three assassination weekend. 00:12:19.310 --> 00:12:24.470 align:middle line:84% Three assassinated family members. 00:12:24.470 --> 00:12:27.345 align:middle line:90% Acoustic evidence. 00:12:27.345 --> 00:12:27.845 align:middle line:90% Acrostic. 00:12:27.845 --> 00:12:33.910 align:middle line:90% 00:12:33.910 --> 00:12:40.940 align:middle line:84% Operation [? 40. ?] Arizona Poetry Center. 00:12:40.940 --> 00:12:41.990 align:middle line:90% Tracheotomy. 00:12:41.990 --> 00:12:42.890 align:middle line:90% Tsvetaeva. 00:12:42.890 --> 00:12:46.520 align:middle line:90% 00:12:46.520 --> 00:12:47.020 align:middle line:90% JFK. 00:12:47.020 --> 00:12:49.450 align:middle line:90% 00:12:49.450 --> 00:12:49.950 align:middle line:90% You. 00:12:49.950 --> 00:12:52.670 align:middle line:90% 00:12:52.670 --> 00:12:54.310 align:middle line:90% JFK. 00:12:54.310 --> 00:12:54.810 align:middle line:90% You." 00:12:54.810 --> 00:12:58.890 align:middle line:90% 00:12:58.890 --> 00:12:59.908 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:12:59.908 --> 00:13:07.080 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:13:07.080 --> 00:13:11.880 align:middle line:84% So that was Barber's "Adagio For Strings, "Opus 11." 00:13:11.880 --> 00:13:15.840 align:middle line:84% It's supposedly JFK's favorite piece of music. 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:18.480 align:middle line:84% It's also the piece Jacqueline Kennedy used two days 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:19.710 align:middle line:90% after the assassination. 00:13:19.710 --> 00:13:24.240 align:middle line:84% She rented out a hall, a symphony hall in DC 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:27.240 align:middle line:84% and hired an orchestra to play it to an empty hall 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:29.970 align:middle line:84% and have it broadcast over the city. 00:13:29.970 --> 00:13:34.440 align:middle line:84% So it played for 24 hours to no audience but a radio audience. 00:13:34.440 --> 00:13:37.860 align:middle line:84% It's probably one of the saddest pieces of music I know. 00:13:37.860 --> 00:13:41.070 align:middle line:84% It seemed to fit with that kill list. 00:13:41.070 --> 00:13:44.610 align:middle line:84% And it's a long list, so I had to jump around a bit. 00:13:44.610 --> 00:13:46.500 align:middle line:90% Thank you for being on it. 00:13:46.500 --> 00:13:47.000 align:middle line:90%