[…] everything from Jack Nicholson qua Reichian to the latest on the on-going alien abduction story in the USA. Most important, I think, are two pieces about the Kennedy assassination. The first is an interview with the Chicago researcher Sherman Skolnick – with fascinating material on the fuzzy alleged 1963 assassination attempt on JFK planned […]
[…] establishing motives and the background of domestic paranoia about communism made the idea of a vast communist conspiracy irresistibly seductive to many of its advocates in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. In these examples government sources provided the basis for the fantasy. The inherent plausibility of the claims and the discoverable facts on the […]
[…] penetration of the White House: McCord’s CIA section had its own men amongst the White House Secret Service personnel – ponder the implications of that for the Kennedy assassination if there was similar penetration in 1963 – while Hunt appears to have been engaged in building character profiles of the White House staff for […]
[…] for information’, which he subsequently shared with Bing Spear. Abrams adds for good measure, ‘Stark had told me …..that he was seconded to the White House under Kennedy so he may have been there at the time of the Kennedy assassination.’ (Damn, not that again). Perhaps the weirdest single episode in Abrams’ story – […]
[…] the events the hypothesis seeks to explain in a wider historical context. Remarkably, for example, Andrew suggested that the international obsession with the assassination of John F. Kennedy was a good example of unhealthy interest in conspiracies. Now while the actual circumstances of the murder may be difficult to determine we can ascertain that […]
[…] 2001. In its final online release of material related to the conference, the National Security Archive has also posted audio recordings of two telephone conversations between President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, on March 2, 1963, in which they discuss concerns that a Senate investigating committee might reveal that the President […]
[…] of a feather flock together. I don’t know any squares that run with them. They may go down to look. The who shot John? Suddenly we’ve got Kennedy assassins all over the place. In August, the former Dallas policeman Roscoe White was identified as the shooter on the grassy knoll by his son, after […]
[…] savvy folk knew Gerry had a wayward way with facts from his book’s first sentence, which claims that more than 2,000 books have been written about the Kennedy assassination. The actual figure is somewhere under 400. Posner probably got the 2,000 figure from the struggling Assassination Research Center in Washington, DC, which does (or […]
[…] now known of the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro plots.Incidentally, as another example of how unwise it can be to automatically dismiss someone as paranoid, one 1964 account of the Kennedy assassination (Red Roses from Texas by Nerin E. Gunn) quotes, as an example of vicious anti-JFK propaganda, a rightist broadsheet headlined ‘Kennedy Keeps Mistresses’. I am […]
[…] agency. This suggests that ‘revelations’ like the tunnel-as-source-of-Soviet-misinformation are CIA-approved. It is in this light, then, that we might also regard McCarry’s ‘solution’ to the assassination of Kennedy – the subject matter of Tears of Autumn – namely, that Kennedy was killed by members of Diem’s family in revenge for his (Diem’s) own assassination […]
