Not funny, but well done, so funny 5s anyway.

Interesting jogging of my history memory banks. Ruby...don't take that gun to town !

thanks john...you're right....not funny at all....this is the very first news storiy that ever got my attention...i was 8........thanks IB.....i actually did a parody of that song about ol' jack, once

Nicely knit story to this old classic western movie theme

thanks AFW

You honestly should've been a history teacher, Al....you make lurnin' FUN!! 555+

Echoing the sentiments of John Barry--though it's not funny, it gets auto 5s

Assuming, of course, Oswald was the one who did it. (Even if he wasn't, he was still a slimy little cop-killer.) A tough song to parody and a tough subject to deal with. Five for "point made," rather than for "funny." I-Boy: There are eight parodies on this site with "Ruby," and five of them are on the subject. I don't want to say they're good, so I'll say that, like this one, they're effective.

Thanks for giving this one a shot... 5-5-5

"the looniest of them all" would have to be Jack Ruby, if we're to believe that he would throw his life away just to avenge the death of a politician - no other motive, no other backstory (yeah right) - great syllable-matching as always, al - 555

thanks kristof, dave, michael, macphisto and stuart

Alvin - I actually saw Oswald shot live on TV when I was a kid. I know exactly where I was and what I was doing when the news of the assassination reached my ears. I was in 7th grade 6TH period history class. Ironic, no? In 2004 I was in Dallas for a few days and stayed in a hotel that was a five minute walk from the site. Yes I visited the grassy knoll and paid $10.00 to ride the elevator to the top floor of the book repository. (I was turned off by all the street hackers selling Kennedy memorabilia most of which were too young to really be able to appreciate the history that was made) Until that time I could only have sketchy images of what the scene was like. I cannot understand how Oswald ever pulled that shot off. If you visited the place you would know what I am saying. It was more likely that Kennedy was shot from the railroad bridge that was directly ahead of him - at least the shot to the neck and that Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson in an urban myth kind of way has claimed responsibility for shooting Kennedy. The elder Harrleson died in prison of natural causes on March 15, 2007 - just one more possibility silenced forever.

I am only sure of one fact and that is that Oswald could have never pulled that shot to the neck off from the book repository, unless the bullet entered through the back of the neck and not near the "level of the third thoracic vertebra", according to Kennedy's personal physician, Dr. George Burkley. The angle would require that the projectile would have to make about a 90 degree turn which would have been possible with an M-16 as these projectiles travel irradically through a body but Oswald was using a bolt action Mannlicher-Carcano an Italian military 6.77 mm (.266/67 cal.) rimless bottle-necked rifle cartridge that was designed to kill and not to maim as was the idea when the M-16 was developed. Conclusion - there was more than one shooter that day, Nov 22, 1963.

Quite a history lesson in this parody. Well done sir!

thanks guy...thanks for all the info...interesting...i was in 4th grade and my school made absolutely no announcement about it all...i had several relatives living in dallas at the time but none that were at the scene

I have another kind of weird link to the Kennedy assassination. Donald P Bellisario, television producer of shows Quantum Leap, Magnum PI, JAG and NCIS was born in the same hospital that I was. He hails from a town called Cokeburg, Pa. which was about 1.5 miles from my hometown with a population of around 950 soaking wet. Both towns were coal mining company towns and were both founded by James W. Ellsworth.

Bellisario served in the Marine Corps from 1955 to 1958 and served with Lee Harvey Oswald. He ran a two part Quantum Leap episode on Oswald. Ref the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_P._Bellisario

Bellisario in almost every episode of Quantum Leap referenced his home town and all the characters were real people that I knew as a kid. Ziggy was an old Russian immigrant named Zigmund who had a beard that rivaled that of ZZ top. The final leap episode or the series finale was back to his home town. He constantly refs the area in NCIS as well and all the other shows he produced.

He knew my father very well and I am sure that the character Tony DiNozzo got it's name from my father whose name was Anthony but everyone called him Tony. My father had a very profound Roman nose. What is really convincing is that last season DiNozzo was undercover and using the Name Tony DiNardo. Our next door neighbors' last name was DiNardo. DiNozzo's undercover bit was revealed early on in this season's shows. From what I've heard of my father's younger days,he was quite a bit like the DiNozzo character. I learned this from people that knew my father but only was told after he passed away in 1991 at age 84.

I have tried without success to get anyone from the Bellisario camp to tell me anything about DiNozzo's possible link to my father. They probably think I want to capitalize on it but I'm just curious. I like the show and I would never demand paymnent for using my father's character on the show. I'd just like some confirmation.

DiNozzo is played by Michael Weatherly. Ref

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/ncis/#

wow...that's pretty cool