SO the conventional wisdom is that news magazines are finished and useless. I suggest you look at Time’s two stories by David Von Drehle (“Broken Trust”) and Jack Dickey’s (“The Debunker Among the Buffs”) on what the last 50 years means in terms of one of the most traumatic memories of recent times. It will perhaps occur to you to call it up on the Internet but this print edition is worth holding in your hands and keeping.
The reporters cited above did the most compelling wind-up of what JFK’s assassination caused and how it has produced spates of information for the conspiracy theories that are still being formulated.
“The suspects” are named — Lee Harvey Oswald, the “lone gunman” ... The Warren Commission ... Oil-rich Texans who despised Kennedy ... Lyndon Johnson ... the Mafia ... the CIA ... Castro. And on and on.
And we are told about a new book a minute. My own tendency is to use Lamar Waldron’s newest “The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: The Definitive Account of the Most Controversial Crime of the 20th Century.” (Counterpoint books: www.counterpointpress.com, distributed by Publisher’s Group West.)
Waldron’s is a theory I believe in, how the New Orleans godfather Carlos Marcello had the President killed, working with his mob ally, Tampa godfather Santo Trafficante ... all this from Marcello’s own words, uncensored FBI files and many FBI informants and agents. And it follows the connection of Lee Oswald, David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, as well as the attempts to kill Fidel Castro by the CIA. This is really riveting stuff and writer Waldron is authentic. Possibly a fanatic, but a considerable researcher.
This is the most trust-worthy — to my way of thinking — of the conspiracy theories. It includes info on the murders following JFK’s of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy.
Read the book, but be sure you see Time magazine. I also urge you to watch for “Parkland,” a feature movie I have mentioned before which deals only with what exactly seems to have happened that day in Dallas when JFK and Oswald both died in the same hospital within 48 hours of one another. (The material in this film of Oswald’s brother and mother is alone worth the price of admission.) This excellent film was released in October in a limited manner. It is now on DVD. Google “Parkland.” Fabulous actors abound in it. |
