How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didnt Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History Roger Williams cannot enjoy fireworks on the Fourth of July anymore. He thinks about how the pitchers werent there - he ordered them to rest their arms - and how they had Republican staffers whod volunteered to help the team filling in. Those nine minutes were a near miss of modern American history, between the dark aftermath of a deadly, mass political assassination and our own reality, in which most people dont think very often about June 14, 2017, the difference between everything changing, and almost nothing changing at all. He kept thinking about movies, and how people die in movies, and he didnt think that he looked like that, even if the paramedics could see his heart. When they had the shooting in Vegas, I remember one of the persons they interviewed said that they will never forget the sound of those bullets going between those buildings.