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The Kennedy Assassination Homepage is organised in a web like fashion, the pattern can viewed from a distance but once traversing a particular trail the whole subverts given boundaries to present tenuous links to associated reasoning and evidence. Sections of the site adhere to diverse organising principles, this does not however change the over riding web structure. Tables are used to present information in a clear and concise way. Tables are used to show the tabulation of earwitness testimony at the House Select Committee, to show witness inconsistency to document significant events in Lee Harvey Oswald’s adult life and other exmaples of evidence plus conclusion driven arguments.

The assassination of JFK is a narrative that has been subjected to such cultural and historical tampering that it is logical that McAdams “thick site” allows for the dislocation of events to appreciate the evidence. McAdams need not present his content chronologically as the central theme of his site is that the subject is controversial, that the phenomenal amount of “misinformation and disinformation surrounding the murder of JFK” demands that all evidence be evaluated, contextualised, understood and the order in which on views this evidence is irrelevant.



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