Bob Dylan - "Murder Most Foul"

I was born a year after the Kennedy assassination, and my parents at the time were so traumatized by the event (and the social/political upheaval that followed) that they had considered leaving the US to go back and live in Europe (my mother was Danish; my father is a US WWII vet).  They felt that their whole belief system had been subverted by what his murder/death personified.  The nation became quite divided (and still is), and social/economic inequalities became exacerbated as this country plunged itself down the path of neoliberalism.  I find the song to be quite haunting.  The lyrics for me cut like a knife - they are direct and unambiguous.  Death is unambiguous.  As to why Dylan chose to release this song right now I can only speculate.  On the surface the Kennedy assassination obviously impacted him (as the whole nation).  Covid-19 also conjures up fears of death.  As this country continually fails to have a meaningful discussion on the role government (I blame the tribalism that all political parties seem to embrace) we witness a staggeringly impotent response to this crisis.  To properly protect ourselves and appropriately respond to such crises, we have to be unified as a nation (it is in everyone’s best interest) otherwise the social/economic inequities will continue to surge and many more people will die than is necessary - Murder Most Foul.

orpheus10

JFK did more for African Americans than Abraham Lincoln  ... Unfortunately, those who reach a certain economic status become conditional "white people", who have no interest in the African Americans in the multitudes who have been left behind.

What a load of ugly racist nonsense. Perhaps you've been confined inside your ivory tower for too long.

Wasn’t it really mostly RFK anyway?