When I saw the movie "JFK" over 30 years ago, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I remember a wave of criticism and ridicule leveled at Oliver Stone in its wake, particularly from a smirking George Will (who I respected as a very smart man at the time). Will basically dismissed the film as stacked conjecture. It's been a while, but my recol…
When I saw the movie "JFK" over 30 years ago, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I remember a wave of criticism and ridicule leveled at Oliver Stone in its wake, particularly from a smirking George Will (who I respected as a very smart man at the time). Will basically dismissed the film as stacked conjecture. It's been a while, but my recollection is that Stone ultimately laid this at Johnson's feet.
My first sight of the Zapruder film also hit me like a ton of bricks. I told myself that the coup de grace came from the front, and that no one would EVER change my mind about that. Years later, I saw a documentary film that I WISH I could find again, that whether legit or not, was an impressive graphical defense of shots only from the rear.
It suits the purposes of spooks and assassins to have on display an array of theories and explanations. Perhaps the IC cooked up most themselves. I'm a big boy now; withholding these truths after more than 60 years is quite obviously NOT for the purpose of protecting my psyche, but rather for protecting the guilty, whose spirits live on in the federal government, even if their bodies do not.
The LBJ library and museum is in Austin. I wonder what the atmosphere is like there at the moment; whether new findings would be put on display there; and whether the staff spends part of its day on job search sites.
When I saw the movie "JFK" over 30 years ago, it hit me like a ton of bricks. I remember a wave of criticism and ridicule leveled at Oliver Stone in its wake, particularly from a smirking George Will (who I respected as a very smart man at the time). Will basically dismissed the film as stacked conjecture. It's been a while, but my recollection is that Stone ultimately laid this at Johnson's feet.
My first sight of the Zapruder film also hit me like a ton of bricks. I told myself that the coup de grace came from the front, and that no one would EVER change my mind about that. Years later, I saw a documentary film that I WISH I could find again, that whether legit or not, was an impressive graphical defense of shots only from the rear.
It suits the purposes of spooks and assassins to have on display an array of theories and explanations. Perhaps the IC cooked up most themselves. I'm a big boy now; withholding these truths after more than 60 years is quite obviously NOT for the purpose of protecting my psyche, but rather for protecting the guilty, whose spirits live on in the federal government, even if their bodies do not.
The LBJ library and museum is in Austin. I wonder what the atmosphere is like there at the moment; whether new findings would be put on display there; and whether the staff spends part of its day on job search sites.
Interesting muses on your part.