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Shame though that he was such a WC apologist - what a powerful and influential voice he could have been in the media in countering the usual lone nut academics like Dallek and the rest of the establishment historians.On the 100th anniversary of John F. His 1980s book about his friend JFK, A Bright Shining Moment, includes the interesting but credible conclusion that Kennedy was a greater statesman than Churchill. Great writer and historian otherwise, and what a book it might have been. It would be fascinating to see that draft and/or his notes, but to my knowledge these have never been made public. I also liked Henry Hurt's Reasonable Doubt, a dramatically-written good overview of the case as of the mid-80s.Īs for Manchester in the Worst list, I never could finish that book too depressing and by the time I got around to trying to slog through it, I was already aware of how he was forced to substantially alter his first-draft comments about LBJ.
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The early critics of the WC have long interested me, and at the time I was a little too young to catch much of it, with the exception of seeing Mort Sahl ca 1967 take the Commission to task often on his nationally syndicated tv show.Īs for your Best Books List, concur with all picks, read them all. Might take a while though.ītw, re the eerie Lincoln-Kennedy similarities (in 9th grade civics in the late 1960s we got that handout, the only time, iirc, the JFK assassination was ever alluded to in school), the one which sends chills down my spine is the one where Lincoln security people in 1861 called in the NY Superintendent of Police to help thwart the Baltimore plot, then again SoW Stanton in 1865 calls him back to help investigate the assassination. A breakthrough can happen no matter how deliberately muddled the evidence. Their breakthrough book in 1988, Come Retribution, appears to not only have withstood challenge, but is probably the major factor which in 2000 led the dean of Lincoln assass'n historians, Wm Hanchett, to step out of the old paradigm of simple conspiracy that he espoused for years and into an embrace of the grand conspiracy point of view.
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And it took 3 independent, non-professional historians, all with a civil service and intel background, to crack the case and bring the Confed govt conspiracy - the grand conspiracy - back into play.
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That view held for over 130 years by my non-expert count. The simple conspiracy view was so dominant and confidently asserted by historians that, as you note, it almost became a simple lone nut murder case with the other conspirators a footnote at best. In the Lincoln case, the original botched attempt to hold Confed officials accountable for Lincoln's murder enabled the false portrait to emerge of a simple conspiracy involving only Booth leading a small band of ne'er-do-wells while the Confed govt conspiracy angle appeared fully discredited.
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It wouldn't surprise me that the JFK plotters had a good knowledge of how the Lincoln assassination investigation played out, which for the higher-up Confed plotters turned out rather well, partly by their own surreptitious intervention in the trial stage (shades of CIA intervention with a bogus witness in the Garrison case) and partly by luck in getting an aggressive, authoritarian Stanton type who was secrecy-prone and unwilling to let the full investigative record come to light.