Good morning, Whitewater.
Sunday in town will be mostly cloudy with a high of seventy-six. Sunrise is 6:48 and sunset 6:42, for 11h 54m 30s of daytime. We’ve a full moon this Sunday, with a supermoon lunar escape tonight. (There are stories that, unfoundedly, a small number of people are worried that this natural phenomenon of the created order somehow represents a sign of impending apocalypse. On the contrary, it’s evidence of the beauty of creation; claims to the contrary are wildly misplaced. If we’ve not too many clouds tonight, we’ll have something rare and beautiful to see.)
Rabbits are taking over a town in Washington, and most respondents (53.85%) to the Friday FW poll think that the result of their invasion will be a long, cold war between rabbits and humans.
On this day in 1964, the Warren Commission issued a report concluding, as reporter Anthony Lewis wrote, that
[t]he assassination of President Kennedy was the work of one man, Lee Harvey Oswald. There was no conspiracy, foreign or domestic.That was the central finding in the Warren Commission report, made public this evening. Chief Justice Earl Warren and the six other members of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy were unanimous on this and all questions.
The commission found that Jack Ruby was on his own in killing Oswald. It rejected all theories that the two men were in some way connected. It said that neither rightists nor Communists bore responsibility for the murder of the President in Dallas last Nov. 22.
Why did Oswald to it? To this most important and most mysterious question the commission had no certain answer. It suggested that Oswald had no rational purpose, no motive adequate if “judged by the standards of reasonable men.”
On this day in 1862, the 29th readies to defend the Union:
1862 – (Civil War) 29th Wisconsin Infantry Musters In
The 29th Wisconsin Infantry mustered in. It would go on to participate in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hill, the Sieges of Vicksburg and Jackson, the Red River Campaign, the siege of Spanish Fort and the capture of Fort Blakely, Alabama.