But in the half-century since a slight, sallow man named Lee Harvey Oswald killed President John F. Kennedy, so much continues to be said about the assassination that the various conspiracy devices and theories are nearly as familiar as the tragic event itself.
Hours after the car bomb explosion, Kashmir's finance minister, Muzaffar Hussain Beig, survived an assassination attempt when a remote-controlled device exploded in Baramulla, 34 miles north of Srinagar.
The justification for casting one of the most male of Shakespeare's plays – light on women characters and heavy on assassination and oration – is provided by a framing device well suited to the old warehouse that is the Donmar.
Now, the episodes that activists say they worry most about no longer stem from NATO aerial bombardments or special forces night raids but from the insurgents' indiscriminate use of suicide bombers, assassinations and improvised explosive devices.
While violence is down dramatically in Iraq compared to the worst days of the insurgency and sectarian violence in 2006 and 2007, the country still faces daily attacks in the form of car bombs, improvised explosive devices and assassinations.
Officers advance in rank by assassination, with Kirk possessing the choicest precision weapon: a device in his quarters capable of killing any person on board with just the touch of a button.
In September, for example, a United Nations expert on Al Qaeda warned policy makers in Washington that the type of explosive device used by a Yemeni militant in an assassination attempt in Saudi Arabia could be carried aboard an airliner.
After President Kennedy's assassination, X-100 was rebuilt, armored and fitted with security devices including a permanent hardtop with bulletproof glass and drive-flat tires.
Asim Kausar, 25, from Bolton, Greater Manchester, kept the information on a computer memory stick that contained details about the toxin ricin, assassination and torture techniques and instructions for making improvised explosive devices.
