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savid J. Darrow 11/20/68 2olitical Science pest. CONY, New York. N.Y. 10031
Dear David,
erofessional Historians and political scientists, like those of us you regard
as an ignorant rabble to be talked down to, are entitled to your biases and prejudices
and preconceptions and, absent self-re.traint, are licensed to indulge(Ab you do in ye-
Appal day's Washington Post Jock World,But this does not extend to ignorance and
your flaunting of your own ignorance. (Please excuse my worse than usual typing; I'm
recovering from eye surgery.)
Aside from perhaps the belief that you know all there is to know about anything,
what qualifies you to all or any part of:
V...an ongoing fascination- at least on the paryof authors and publishers- with the real and imagined minuae of the Kennedy assassination itself, a fascination that shoW7S no sign ok diminution even as the most determined conspiracy theorists flirt with science fiction in their overheated imaginings...To anyone who has followed even in a half-hearted fashion the evolution of the burgeoning literature on7iii7ohn Kennedy's shooting, the sinkin4 feeling that less is known with each passing year - and arriving book- becomes inescapable."
Do you, personally, qualifieas the "heii-hearted" student of the literature?
Your language in this diatribe reflects ignorance/ not even half-hearted knowledge.
Aside from this, what 1 have no reason to believe troubles you at all, it is grossly
unfair and misleading and in some respects it is false.
What in the world do you mean by "minuOle?" The backbone of hist96 and of law
and justice is not what is commonly referred to as "minugae?" Or is this an ignoramus
way of seeking to put down what ho cannot address on the basis of fact add his personal
knowledge? Or of seeking to diminish the solid works of years ago by bracketing them
with the current nonsense of the Devises aOd the Scheima? How can the appearance of
such junk make less be known when there is what you ignore, solid works ofl the past?
What do you know of either the Warren CommissiOn, the books about it or what
I am confident David 'kin largely noresjwhat those of ua you and he seek to put
down have brought to light from official suparession, that entitles you to offer the
opinion that Delia is "per2uasivelt in his defense of his own past 'hat you and he
refer to as his defense of the Commission? Do you know enough about Bolin to hold an
intolligeent opinion about him and what he says and has laid and done, including in other
than his own self-serving version, what ho did and did not do on the 4.notfollig
What do you really know, in other than a Belinesque veradcer-df "the ph cal
facts of the Kennedy shooting to say to so large and trusting an audience, not to
mention trusting editors, that "for all practical purposes" these "physical facts
can no longer be disputed?"
CC klhq liN 1'13A Vi Harold Weisberg
Sine elYr
2
mints no words on this - you lie and it is an ugly, CI-----'1isgusting lie coming
from one of your discipline when in the real context you ignore you are talking about
the most subversivo crime possible in u society like ours.
What 1F anztlIng at all do lag, realty know of the physical facts, the actualities, not the selfliserving representations of the Beans or his Commission?
Do you know, or is this part of what you seek to dismiss as "minut6," that on the most Jasic of facts about the assassination, what shots hit who, to this day
both the Secret Service and the FBI disagree and as of my last knowledge sneered to ji
themselves about the Commission's version. And this, by the way, you 'eminent ignoramus,
sir, is the actual theorizing, the officials' of all levels, as you'd know if you had
read and understood the Warren report itself.)
In any translation of your closing words into everyday, dispassionate English,
you actually gall for an end to critical writing on this subject, this most sub-
versive of crimes, this most dubious official inquiry into what, contrary to the
other opinions you offer, turned the world around. For shame, Dabid! You belittle yourself, you demean your discipline, you
Orwellize when more than at any time I can recall, and I've lived a third as long
as ouY country, the people have an urgent need to know what is real gad true about so much,, including how their government serves than and their system of self-gpvernmenl:,
IhkAA- realry,,oito-freedom.
L'his outrageous stuff comes with even pporer grace from one whose own work was
to a large degree made possible by those he deprecates for without the effort of which
you are well aware and to which neither you nor any other professional historian or political scientist contributed in any way, those records would not have been available to you and others under the fieedom of Information act. Dane by a "conspiracy
theorist." was it, IJavid? Some of that "imagined min 444" Perhaps "science fiction
in their overheated imaginings?"
I'm sorry for you the you are capable of something as indecent, as dishonest,
as this is,
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noti
ng th
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st g
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pro
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Peo
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whi
ch
had
com
e to
rui
n on
ly m
onth
s af
ter
his
assa
ssin
atio
n.
As
a gr
oup
that
had
wit
ness
ed it
s sp
irit
ed, opti
mis
tic
bir
th i
n t
he
Dee
p S
outh
, we
wer
e ap
pall
ed a
t th
e sl
ow
, gru
esom
e dea
th o
f th
e
Rob
ert C
. May
nar
d, e
dito
r of
the
Oak
land
Tri
bune
, cov
ered
the
civi
l ri
ghts
mov
emen
t as
a re
port
er f
or
The
Was
hing
ton
Pos
t.
wit
h u
s to
th
is d
ay. T
wo
deca
des
afte
r his
dea
th, m
any
peo
ple
are
sa
tisf
ied
in t
heir
ow
n m
inds
as
to
how
muc
h of
Mar
tin
Lut
her
Kin
g's
min
istr
y w
as a
div
ine
insp
irat
ion
and
how
muc
h w
as h
isto
rica
l acc
i-de
nt. F
or th
ose
stil
l unc
erta
in, T
ay-
lor
Bra
nch'
s ne
w b
ook,
Par
ting
the
Wat
t= A
mer
ica
in th
e K
ing
Yea
rs,
1954
-63,
off
ers
ampl
e am
mun
itio
n to
kee
p th
e de
bate
ali
ve.
In t
his
fir
st o
f tw
o v
olu
mes
, B
ranc
h ha
s se
t out
on
an im
pres
sive
an
d am
biti
ous
mis
sion
: He
seek
s to
pla
ce K
ing i
n t
he
conte
xt
of
his
ti
mes
.. —
Con
tinue
d O
PP pa
ge .1
John
F. K
enne
dy a
nd th
e M
ytho
logy
of C
amel
ot
By D
avid
J. G
arr
ow
EV
ER
Y F
IFT
H N
ov
emb
er-1
98
3,
1988
—no
w w
itne
sses
a m
ajor
ann
iver
- ,
sary
of
John
F. K
enne
dy's
ass
assi
nati
on
in D
alla
s on
Nov
embe
r 22
, 196
3. E
ach
anni
-:
ver
sary
—an
d s
eem
ingly
ever
y s
ucc
essi
ve
pres
iden
tial
cam
paig
n—al
so w
itne
sses
a f
ur-
ther
bur
nish
ing
and
invo
catio
n of
the
jFK
_ im
-ag
e. N
ot
only
does
eff
usi
ve
cele
bra
tion o
f K
enne
dy's
Whi
te H
ouse
yea
rs e
xpan
d fu
rthe
r an
d fu
rthe
r w
ith e
ach
new
cro
p of
han
dsom
ely,
pr
oduc
ed p
ictu
re b
ooks
—e.
g. L
IFE
in C
ame-
lot T
he
Ken
ned
y Y
ears
—bu
t ea
ch e
lect
ion
Dav
id j
Gar
row
is th
e au
thor
of
"Bea
ring
the
Cra
ss. M
artin
Lut
her
Kin
g, J
r., a
nd th
e So
uth-
ern
Chr
istia
n L
eade
rshi
p C
onfe
renc
e" w
hich
w
ort t
he 1
987
Rob
ert F
. Ken
nedy
Boo
k A
war
d an
d th
e 19
87 P
ulitz
er P
rize
in b
iogr
aphy
.
year
pro
vide
s a
wid
er a
nd w
ider
ran
ge o
f of
-fi
ce-s
eeke
rs e
ager
to
clai
m s
ome
vers
ion
of
the
Ken
nedy
lega
cy a
s th
eir
own.
Fi
ve y
ears
ago
a G
allu
p po
ll fo
und
that
Ken
-ne
dy w
as t
he m
ost
retr
ospe
ctiv
ely
popu
lar
Am
eric
an p
resi
dent
. Mor
e po
inte
dly,
65
per-
cent
of
the
Gal
lup
resp
onde
nts
said
the
y be
-li
eved
that
the
Uni
ted
Sta
tes
wou
ld h
ave
been
"m
uch
diff
eren
t`—
and
pres
umab
ly b
ette
r—if
K
enne
dy h
ad n
ot b
een
kill
ed. A
s R
ober
t Mac
-N
eil w
rite
s in
his
intr
oduc
tion
to T
he W
ay W
e W
ere:
196
3, T
he Y
ear
Ken
nedy
Was
Sho
t, "W
e ar
e m
ourn
ing
our
own
unfu
lfil
led
prom
ise,
"
mos
t par
ticu
larl
y "i
he s
piri
t of
hop
e an
d op
: ti
mis
m t
hat
ring
s th
roug
h th
e fe
elin
gs A
mer
-ic
ans
had,
and
ret
ain,
abo
ut t
hat
tim
e—an
d at
trib
ute
to K
enne
dy.'
The
attr
ibuti
on o
f su
ch r
ose
ate
rem
em-
bran
ces
of p
ast h
opes
and
exp
ecta
tion
s to
the
Ken
ned
y p
resi
den
cy l
ies
at t
he
cente
r of
Am
eric
a's
ofte
n m
audl
in a
nd h
isto
rica
lly b
lind-
ered
cel
ebra
tion
of
JFK
. "S
ymbo
ls o
ften
em
-b
od
y n
eed
s th
at r
end
er l
iter
al f
acts
irr
ele-
vant
," T
hom
as B
row
n ap
tly
note
s in
JF
K H
is-
tory
of
an I
mag
e, a
nd n
o r
eader
of
Bro
wn's
sm
all b
ut e
min
entl
y us
eful
vol
ume
is li
kely
to
fini
sh it
sti
ll be
lievi
ng th
at R
onal
d R
eaga
n's
was
the
first
"T
eflo
n pr
esid
ency
.' N
o se
riou
s sc
hola
r co
uld
succ
essf
ully
con
-te
nd th
at th
e ac
tual
ach
ieve
men
ts a
nd p
olic
ies
of
the
Ken
ned
y p
resi
den
cy a
ccount
for
the
trem
endo
us p
opul
ar r
egar
d in
whi
ch J
FK
is
now
hel
d. I
nste
ad, a
s B
row
n su
ccin
ctly
put
s it
, "I
t is
the
cir
cum
stan
ces
of K
enne
dy's
dea
th
rath
er t
han
the
even
ts o
f his
lif
e th
at h
ave
elev
ated
him
to a
pri
mar
y pl
ace
in th
e po
liti
cal
cons
ciou
snes
s of
Am
eric
ans.
" H
owev
er, i
t is
no
t the
ass
assi
nati
on a
lone
that
has
sti
mul
atea
th
e m
ytho
logy
of
"Cam
elot
,' bu
t the
ver
y pr
e-m
atur
e an
d su
dden
pas
sing
of
that
pre
side
nt,
from
the
nat
iona
l sc
ene
that
has
all
owed
his
re
cord
in
offi
ce t
o be
nefi
t fr
om T
eflo
n qu
al-
itie
s th
at w
ill l
ong
outl
ast t
hose
of
the
Rea
gan
pres
iden
cy.
In f
all
of
1963 t
he
Ken
ned
y p
resi
den
tial
re
cord
was
far
fro
m a
sm
ashi
ng s
ucce
ss.
In
Iate
ign
affa
irs.
the
—
Con
tin
ued
or
page
10
The
boo
ksdi
scus
sed
in th
e ac
com
pany
ing
essa
y in
clud
e so
me
of th
e fo
llow
ing
wor
ks, a
ll o
f w
hich
hav
e be
en r
elea
sed
or r
eiss
ued
in c
onju
ncti
on w
ith
the
25th
ann
iver
sary
of t
he a
Tsf
it-
sina
tion
of P
resi
dent
Joh
n F
. Ken
nedy
.
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E i
n C
am
elot:
Th
e K
enn
edy
Yea
rs
Edi
ted
by P
hili
p B
. Kun
hard
t Jr
Lit
tle,
Bro
wn
319
pp. $
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JFK
and
Th
e M
yth
Of C
amel
ot
John
F. K
enne
dy w
ith h
is d
augh
ter
Car
olin
e
Con
tinu
ed f
rom
pap
I
mos
t not
able
eve
nt h
ad b
een
the
incr
edib
ly
inep
t mili
tary
and
hum
an d
ebac
le a
t the
Bay
of
Pig
s. O
n th
e do
mes
tic f
ront
Ken
nedy
had
be
en la
rgel
y un
able
to p
ersu
ade
Con
gres
s to
pa
ss a
ny tr
uly
sign
ific
ant l
egis
lativ
e pr
opos
-al
s. P
oliti
cally
the
1962
con
gres
sion
al e
lec-
tion
s h
ad w
itne
ssed
no
nota
ble
Dem
atic
or
Rep
ubli
can
gain
s, b
ut r
e-el
ecti
on tooc
r the
pres
iden
cy in
196
4 ap
pear
ed s
afe
only
if th
e R
epub
lican
s w
ould
be
so k
ind
as to
nom
inat
e B
arry
Gol
dwat
er.
,Tha
t muc
h w
as k
now
n on
Nov
. 22,
196
3.
How
ever
, any
one
of
seve
ral
thin
gs n
ow .
know
n w
ould
hav
e, if
reve
aled
, in
1963
or a
t an
y po
int d
urin
g th
e la
ter
life
of
a no
n-as
-sa
ssin
ated
Joh
n F.
Ken
nedy
, end
ed th
e K
en-
nedy
pre
side
ncy
and
left
the
ex-p
resi
dent
w
ith
a hi
stor
ical
rep
utat
ion
infe
rior
to th
at
of
Ric
har
d M
. N
ixo
n,
amo
ng
oth
eT
rs.
e
two
mos
t dam
agin
g ex
ampl
es w
ill s
uffi
ce.
Rev
elat
ions
of
any
part
of
the
Ken
nedy
-sup
-
port
ed C
LA
ass
assi
natio
n pl
ots
targ
eted
at
Cub
a's
Fide
l Cas
tro
likel
y w
ould
hav
e ha
d as
se
vere
a c
onte
mpo
rane
ous
polit
ical
impa
ct
as W
ater
gate
had
on
the
Nix
on p
resi
denc
y .
or t
he I
ran-
cont
ra s
cand
als
have
had
on
Rea
gan'
s. S
econ
d, e
ven
if th
e M
afia
's e
x-te
nsiv
e in
volv
emen
t in
thos
e go
verr
u-nen
t-
spon
sore
d pl
ots
had
not
on i
ts o
wn
been
en
ough
to g
ener
ate
call
s fo
r im
peac
hmen
t or
res
igna
tion
, rev
elat
ion
of a
n in
cum
bent
pr
esid
ent's
ext
ensi
ve s
exua
l inv
olve
men
t w
ith a
top
hood
lum
's gi
rlfr
iend
—Sa
m G
ian-
cana
's J
udit
h C
ampb
ell-
-cer
tain
ly w
ould
ha
ve. L
ooke
d at
with
the
cold
ret
rosp
ectiv
e ey
es o
f hi
stor
y, th
e as
sass
inat
ion
in D
alla
s m
ay w
ell h
ave
save
d Jo
hn K
enne
dy f
rom
a
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IA •1
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2CAR
AD K
ENW
DY
AS
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11M
tM86
1
real
m o
f m
otiv
e, b
oth
for
Osw
ald
and
f R
uby.
To
pict
ure
Rub
y as
a p
ossi
ble
oper
- or
ativ
e of
org
aniz
ed c
rim
e, g
iven
Rub
y's
back
-gr
ound
, is
not a
t all
dif
ficu
lt, a
ltho
ugh
to
expl
ain
Rub
y's
acti
ons
in th
e pe
riod
Nov
. 22
-24
as th
ose
of a
con
spir
ator
ial h
it-m
an is
di
ffic
ult i
f no
t dow
nrig
ht im
poss
ible
. Sim
-il
arly
, to
pict
ure
Osw
ald
as m
otiv
ated
by
poli
tica
l, e
.g.,
pro-
Cas
tro
desi
res,
rat
her
than
by
noni
deol
ogic
al id
iosy
ncra
sies
, is
also
ea
sily
pos
sibl
e in
ligh
t of
Osw
ald'
s qu
ixot
ic
hist
ory
as a
n em
igre
to th
e So
viet
Uni
on. T
o rk
wal
d to
any
con
spir
ator
ial s
pons
ors,
10
—
---
o ---- --
two
mos
t dam
agin
g ex
ampl
es w
ill s
uffi
ce.
Rev
elat
ions
of
any
part
of
the
Ken
nedy
-sup
-po
rted
CL
4 as
sass
inat
ion
plot
s ta
rget
ed a
t C
uba'
s Fi
del C
astr
o lik
ely
wou
ld h
ave
had
as
seve
re a
con
tem
pora
neou
s po
liti
cal i
mpa
ct
as W
ater
gate
had
on
the
Nix
on p
resi
denc
y or
the
Iran
-co
ntr
a sc
and
als
hav
e h
ad o
n
Rea
gan'
s. S
econ
d, e
ven
if t
he M
afia
's e
x-te
nsiv
e in
volv
emen
t in
thos
e go
vern
men
t-sp
onso
red
plot
s ha
d no
t on
its
ow
n be
en
-eno
ugh
to g
ener
ate
call
s fo
r im
peac
hmen
t or
res
igna
tion
, rev
elat
ion
of a
n in
cum
bent
pr
esid
ent's
ext
ensi
ve s
exua
l in
volv
emen
t w
ith a
top
hood
lum
's g
irlf
rien
d—Sa
m G
ian-
cana
's J
udit
h C
ampb
ell-
-cer
tain
ly w
ould
ha
ve. L
ooke
d at
wit
h th
e co
ld r
etro
spec
tive
ey
es o
f hi
stor
y, t
he a
ssas
sina
tion
in
Dal
las
may
wel
l hav
e sa
ved
John
Ken
nedy
fro
m a
po
liti
cal
dest
ruct
ion
that
wou
ld h
ave
been
ex
trao
rdin
arily
pai
nful
and
em
barr
assi
ng.
jOH
N K
EN
NE
DY
is o
f co
urse
not
the
on
ly m
ajo
r fi
gu
re f
rom
th
e 1
96
0s
who
se r
eput
atio
n in
dea
th h
as f
ar e
x-ce
eded
his
pop
ular
ity w
hile
-aliv
e or
his
li
kel
y p
op
ula
rity
had
he
liv
ed. T
he
sam
e is
eq
ual
ly t
rue
for
the
Rev
. M
arti
n
Lut
her
Kin
g Jr
., w
ho a
t the
tim
e of
his
dea
th
was
wid
ely
view
ed a
s bo
th d
ange
rous
ly r
ad-
ical
on
the
ques
tion
of
Vie
tnam
and
as
in-
crea
sing
ly l
ess
infl
uen
tial
wit
hin
bla
ck
Am
eric
a, a
nd f
or R
ober
t Ken
nedy
. who
at
the
tim
e of
his
ass
assi
nati
on w
as s
trug
glin
g bo
th t
o ev
ade
resp
onsi
bili
ty f
or t
he F
BI'
s re
cent
ly r
evea
led
wir
etap
ping
of
the
just
-de-
ceas
ed K
ing
and
to q
uell
the
resu
rgen
ce o
f 'b
ad B
obby
" an
alys
es th
at f
ollo
wed
fro
m h
is
entr
y in
to t
he 1
968
pres
iden
tial
cam
paig
n on
ly a
fter
Eug
ene
McC
arth
y ha
d al
l but
top-
pled
Lyn
don
John
son.
For
ML
K, d
eath
in
Mem
phis
res
ulte
d in
a s
udde
n en
shri
nem
ent
in A
mer
ican
his
tory
that
wou
ld h
ave
been
m
ost u
nlik
ely
had
he s
urvi
ved
thro
ugh
the
late
196
0s a
nd i
nto
the
1970
s, n
ever
min
d un
til t
he p
rese
nt d
ay. F
or R
FK
too,
pop
ular
hi
stor
y's
sym
boli
sm h
as b
een
kind
er t
han
wou
ld h
ave
been
in th
e ca
se h
ad h
e fa
iled
to
capt
ure
the
Dem
ocra
tic
nom
inat
ion
from
H
uber
t Hum
phre
y in
196
8 or
had
he
fail
ed
to w
in o
ut o
ver
Ric
hard
Nix
on.
Tho
mas
Bro
wn
says
wit
h re
fere
nce
to th
e C
astr
o pl
ots
and
the
Maf
ia c
onne
ctio
ns th
at
"the
mos
t sa
lien
t as
pect
of
the
reve
lati
ons
was
thei
r la
ck o
f la
stin
g im
pact
on
the
Ken
-ne
dy im
age,
" an
d th
at c
oncl
usio
n, in
ligh
t of
FIN
AL
DIS
CL
OS
UR
E
Th
e F
ull
Tru
th A
bo
ut
the
Ass
ass
ina
tio
n o
f P
resi
den
t K
enn
edy
B
y D
avid
W. B
elin
Sc
rihn
ers.
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ER
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ia M
urd
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resi
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oh
n F
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y D
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eim
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JOH
N F
. KE
NN
ED
Y
An
d a
New
Gen
erati
on
B
y D
avid
Bur
ner.
Edi
ted
by O
scar
Han
dlin
both
the
Gal
lup
stat
isti
cs a
nd th
e on
com
ing'
fl
ow o
f re
vere
ntia
l pi
ctur
e bo
oks,
is
quit
e in
disp
utab
le. C
oupl
ed w
ith
it, h
owev
er, h
as
been
an
ongo
ing
fasc
inat
ion—
at le
ast o
n th
e pa
rt o
f au
thor
s an
d pu
blis
hers
—w
ith
the
real
and
imag
ined
min
utia
e of
the
Ken
nedy
as
sass
inat
ion
itse
lf, a
fas
cina
tion
that
sho
ws
no s
ign
of d
imin
utio
n ev
en a
s th
e m
ost d
e-te
rmin
ed c
onsp
irac
y th
eori
sts
flir
t wit
h sc
i-en
ce f
icti
on in
thei
r ov
erhe
ated
imag
inin
gs
of c
orps
e-ta
mpe
ring
and
Lee
Har
vey
Os-
wal
d lo
ok-a
like
s. T
o an
yone
who
has
fol
-lo
wed
even
in a
hal
f-hea
rted
fas
hio
n t
he
evol
utio
n of
the
bur
geon
ing
lite
ratu
re o
n Jo
hn K
enne
dy's
sho
otin
g, th
e si
nkin
g fe
elin
g th
at le
ss is
kno
wn
wit
h ea
ch p
assi
ng y
ear—
and
arri
ving
boo
k—be
com
es i
ncre
asin
gly
John
F. K
enne
dy w
ith h
is d
augh
ter
Car
olin
e
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tle,
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wn. 189 p
p. $16.9
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N F
ITZ
GE
RA
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e R
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n M
eyer
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un
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g P
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rs
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n F
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ines
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ble.
Hop
ing
to s
tem
thi
s de
volu
-ti
onar
y pa
th i
s D
avid
Bel
in, f
orm
er e
xecu
-ti
ve d
irec
tor
of t
he R
ocke
fell
er C
omm
is-
sion
's in
quir
y in
to C
IA m
isde
eds
and
a co
un-
sel t
o th
e W
arre
n C
omm
issi
on, w
hose
bas
ic
conc
lusi
ons
abou
t th
e K
enne
dy a
ssas
sina
-ti
on B
elin
per
suas
ivel
y de
fend
s.
For
all
"be
yond
rea
sona
ble
doub
t' pu
r-p
ose
s th
e p
hy
sica
l fa
cts
of
the
Ken
ned
y
shoo
ting
can
no
long
er b
e di
sput
ed. K
en-
nedy
was
ind
eed
kill
ed b
y L
ee H
arve
y O
s-w
ald
firi
ng f
rom
the
sixt
h fl
oor
of th
e T
exas
S
cho
ol
Bo
ok
Dep
osi
tory
; n
o o
ther
sh
ots
w
ere
rued
at
his
car;
the
re w
as n
o "s
econ
d gu
nman
." S
imil
arly
bey
ond
disp
ute
is J
ack
Rub
y's
kill
ing
of O
swal
d tw
o da
ys la
ter.
W
here
que
stio
ns c
an b
e as
ked
is i
n th
e
!KW
-4.
414
FiT
ICA
RK
.0 K
EN
NE
DY
45
NI
PM
EM
dCR
Mik
e
real
m o
f m
otiv
e, b
oth
for
Osw
ald
and
for
Rub
y. T
o pi
ctur
e R
uby
as a
pos
sibl
e op
er-
ativ
e of
org
aniz
ed c
rim
e. g
iven
Ru
by'
s lu
ck-
gro
un
d,
is n
ot
at a
l d
iffi
cult
, al
tho
ug
h t
o
expl
ain
Rub
y's
acti
ons
in t
he p
erio
d N
ov.
22-2
4 as
thos
e of
a c
onsp
irat
oria
l hit
-man
is
diff
icul
t if
not
dow
nrig
ht i
mpo
ssib
le. S
im-
ilar
ly, to
pic
ture
Osw
ald
as
mo
tiv
ated
by
poli
tica
l, e
.g.,
pro
-Cas
tro d
esir
es,
rath
er
than
by
noni
deol
ogic
al id
iosy
ncra
sies
, is
also
ea
sily
pos
sibl
e in
ligh
t of
Osw
ald'
s qu
ixot
ic
hist
ory
as a
n em
igre
to th
e S
ovie
t Uni
on. T
o ti
e O
swal
d to
any
con
spir
ator
ial
spon
sors
, ho
wev
er, a
nd e
spec
iall
y to
any
pos
sibl
e or
-g
aniz
ed c
rim
e sp
on
sors
, as
is
the
curr
ent
po
pu
lar
rag
e, h
as s
o f
ar n
ot
bee
n d
on
e in
an
y pe
rsua
sive
fas
hion
and
is
unli
kely
eve
r to
be
done
. Cou
nsel
Bel
in f
orth
righ
tly
puz-
zles
over
the
stil
l undet
erm
ined
poss
ible
re
leva
nce
of O
swal
d's
Sep
tem
ber
1963
tri
p to
Mex
ico
Cit
y, b
ut h
e ac
know
ledg
es t
hat
nei
ther
the
War
ren C
om
mis
sion n
or
the
Hou
se A
ssas
sina
tion
s C
omm
itte
e—no
r an
y-on
e el
se—
has
offe
red
a fu
lly
conv
inci
ng e
x-pl
anat
ion
of O
swal
d's
mot
ive.
As
ofte
n is
the
case
, q
ues
tio
ns
of
inte
nt
are
the
mo
st d
if-
ficu
lt t
o an
swer
, and
wit
h re
gard
to
the
rifl
e sh
ots
of
Nov. 22, 1963, per
hap
s th
e ti
me
has
mor
e th
an c
ome
for
us t
o ac
know
ledg
e th
at t
hey
nev
er w
ill
be
sati
sfac
tori
ly a
n-
swer
ed.
The
pop
ular
myt
holo
gy o
f "C
amel
ot"
and
the
popu
lar
appe
tite
for
unp
rove
n—an
d un
-pr
ovab
le—
cons
pira
tori
al e
xpla
nati
ons
for
John
Ken
nedy
's d
eath
in
Dal
las
now
see
m
des
tined
to e
nte
r th
e lo
ng-t
erm
annal
s of
Am
eric
an h
isto
ry, t
he f
acts
not
wit
hsta
nd-
ing. Jo
hn K
enned
y's
thousa
nd d
ays
in t
he
Wh
ite
Ho
use
wer
e n
ot
the
go
lden
ag
e o
f A
mer
ican
pre
side
ntia
l le
ader
ship
any
mor
e th
an N
ov. 2
2, 1
963,
wit
ness
ed t
he g
reat
est
consp
irac
y i
n h
isto
ry o
r th
e M
afia
's m
ost
st
unnin
g "
hit
," b
ut
unti
l w
e co
mm
it o
ur-
selv
es t
o a
mo
re c
riti
cal
and
les
s si
mp
le-
min
ded
ren
der
ing
of
ou
r h
isto
ry,
we
are
dest
ined
to
be s
addl
ed w
ith
reve
rent
ial
pic-
ture
boo
ks a
nd b
izar
re c
onsp
irat
oria
l tr
acts
. ■
The
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ks d
iscu
ssed
in th
e ac
com
pany
ing
essa
y in
clud
e so
me
of th
e fo
llow
ing
wor
ks, a
ll of
w
hich
hav
e be
en r
elea
sed
or r
eiss
ued
in
conj
unct
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h an
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y of
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E I
N C
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p B
. Kun
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. L
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, Bro
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E W
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r K
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