THUMBS DOWN

THUMBS DOWN to The Dallas Morning News for its sickening Iront page story on the 32nd anniversary of the assassination of John F Kennedy. Call us squeamish, call us wimps, but did readers really need the splash-by splash description of the Only Living Motorcycle Officer who was riding beside John h. Kennedys limo that day in Dealey Plaza? “When he was shot in the head, it all splashed up, and I ran into all that brain matter and all that,” Det. Bobby Hargis told the paper. “It came up and down, all over my uniform.” We were reminded again, a few paragraphs later, that Hargis was “sprayed with the president’s blood,” and that he returned to work “with his uniform and sunglasses still splattered with blood.” There’s even more splattcrama, but we won’t inflict it on our readers. By the way: Del. Hargis has been offered “large sums of money” lor the uniform, which he sent to the cleaners. So it’s no longer splattered with the blood of a president. Darn.