JFK and the Unspeakable

George...I recall meeting you once or twice with Jade and David. As to the JFK "conspiracy," recall Occam's razor, or the simplest explanation with the fewest assumption usually is correct. As someone who labored long in the vineyards of government, it is illogical to me to believe that a conspiracy of such magnitude could be either put together or kept a secret after all these years. Recall that conspiracy theories still exist about Lincoln; and not too far back, a former president, Tyler I think, was exhumed for DNA evidence to check a theory that he had been poisoned by arsenic. He wasn't. Lee Harvey Oswald fits the profile of misfits who commit such acts as he did. There are more important things in the world than sifting the dead ashes of a long-ago event....Best, Phil True

[Thanks very much, Phil, for your comment. I really cannot recommend highly enough to you James W. Douglass' book JFK and the Unspeakable. (Indeed, I'll be happy to bring you a copy.) For someone with your background, you'll immediately see how the connections make sense. Just to pick up on your example regarding Oswald, and this is suggested by your former colleague Victor Marchetti, the explanation for the documented phone call that Oswald made to a "John Hurt" in Raleigh, NC, on Saturday night, Nov. 23d, the day after the assassination while Oswald was in custody, was that Oswald was trying to contact his case officer through a cut-out. (Hurt, a former army counterintelligence Special Agent, denied knowing why Oswald would try to contact him.) ONI, however, had an operations center in Nags Head, NC, "for agents who had been sent as fake expatriates to the Soviet Union — corresponding to Oswald's background." (Page 366 in Douglass, footnotes 842-50.) Anyhow, as you know very well, Phil, people can keep secrets. ☺ Best, g.]

Before Mr True locks his opinions in cement he might take a look at a book written by Michael Parenti called History as Mystery. In it he has a very provocative chapter on the exhumation of the body of President Zachary Taylor, who died in 1850. In fact, Parenti's observations on who writes history and for whose benefit are worth reading.

George, why not have him on your show? He's a knowledgeable, articulate guy who gets almost no exposure on the MSM.

I, too read the JFK book and my reaction was the same as yours. Finally, someone put the killing in a credible context.

Many thanks for your show...

bill morancy
montpelier, vermont

George,

I want to thank you so much for recommending this book. I am about 2/3 through it at this point and simply amazed by the way Douglass has gathered up all the fragmented evidence and knit it together to give us a clear picture of what happened on 11/22/63 and why.

If this capability existed in 1963 (and again in that decade with RFK and MLK), then the remaining arguments for rejecting 911 conspiracy theories vanish into dust.

I suppose this may serve to excuse Obama for not acting decisively to actually end our mistaken wars and take over the banks and push through credit card reform and EFCA. If this is what happens to a progressive President, it is little wonder we haven't had one in the last 46 years.