Today, because of increased technology, we can locate, apprehend, and prosecute criminals who, even 50 years ago, would have remained at large for years. DNA, fingerprint, gun databases, facial recognition software, and behavioral analysis, combined with the worldwide web, are used by law enforcement agencies around the globe to catch criminals guilty of any number of crimes. However, in spite of all this knowledge and technology, some of the greatest crimes, to this day, remain unsolved.
What is possibly the greatest crime in America during the 20th century was the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This crime was committed in public, in broad daylight, with thousands of people watching—some lining the cavalcade route, others watching on television. The press took pictures and filmed the event; citizens lining the street took home movies and snapshots. Yet, still to this day, the truth regarding this assassination remains hidden. How does this happen?
In his book, JFK Conspiracy of Silence, Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D., one of the attending physicians on duty on November 22, 1963, at Parkland Hospital in Dallas when President Kennedy arrived in their emergency room, writes the following:
“ ‘I have nothing to add. Now, if you would excuse me.’ With that, I turned and threaded my way through the crowd of people toward the emergency room. At that moment, I entered the conspiracy of silence. I wasn’t asked or told to do so, nor was any overt pressure ever placed upon me. I was acting from an instinctive survival feeling … . To do otherwise would equal saying … ‘Oswald didn’t shoot him in the head because the President was shot from the front.’ None of us doctors were willing to do that. … I reasoned that anyone that would go so far as to eliminate the President of the United States would surely not hesitate to kill a doctor.” Conspiracy of Silence, 152–154
Whether this crime remains unsolved or has been solved and the details merely kept hidden from the public, a day is coming when everything hidden will be revealed.
So here is the question we must ask ourselves: “Is there anything I have hidden away that must be confessed?” If so, I must make it right before probation closes. Otherwise, it will be publically revealed when it is too late for me to be forgiven, and I will be doomed, lost forever.
Now is the time to make things right, friend. Don’t wait until it is too late.