Appearing on MSNBCs Now with Alex Wagner, Tom Brokaw disputed the media claim that Dallas is somehow responsible for the assassination of JFK and correctly placed the blame on the shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald.

During the show, Alex Wagner made reference to one of the many news reports this week that have been assessing these provocative accusations against the City of Dallas. It was written by New York Times reporter, Sam Tanenhaus. Guest Tom Brokaw quickly became the voice of reason amidst this media blitz.

Wagner: Certainly these were halcyon days for America and American society in some ways, but the civil rights question was very much a real one and there was a sense of - I mean - Sam Tanenhaus writing today in the New York Times talks about the sort of electric undercurrent of discontent that was still - that was palpable in and around the time that Kennedy was shot. And that Dallas was a very dangerous place to be at that moment. 

Brokaw: And Dallas didn't have anything to do with the assassination, which is the interesting thing. It was this lone misfit who'd gone to Russia. He was a far-left guy, not a far-right guy.

Blame for the assassination of President Kennedy lies in the hands of the sniper in the book depository, not carelessly slung onto those citizens of Dallas no matter what the "undercurrent of discontent" may or may not have been at that time.

Brokaw's correct assessment of the truth in this matter will hopefully ring loudly against the media's current misalignment of this past event with current events.