User blog comment:Ian678/What were the Beatles doing during the day of JFK's murder?/@comment-31924693-20140504173624

Moved this post because it is more appropriate as a blog post than as a message-wall post. I don't know why it has disappeared from my blog space (where it was temporarily created) without appearing in yours (as it is supposed to); maybe this reply will fix that problem.

As for the last point, the Beach Boys are a US band hence their referencing Kennedy is understandable — as is their not referencing British politicians such as Harold Wilson or Edward Heath, both of whom were name-checked in Taxman. This kind of thing is one of the many errors in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons; Gunther Glick, the so-called "British" journalist, amongst many other signs that he's an American pretending to be British, at one point imagines himself as Dan Rather. Even if his job as a TV journalist makes him one of the very few Brits to have heard of Rather, if he were really British he would have imagined himself as Trevor McDonald.