The real impact of Kennedy's assassination and the mishandled Warren Commission was to validate an elite politics of distraction and spark a fascination with conspiracy theories. All to avoid the obvious, that JFK was killed by an assassin enmeshed in a newly emerging movement later called the "new left." Instead, the event was treated a…
The real impact of Kennedy's assassination and the mishandled Warren Commission was to validate an elite politics of distraction and spark a fascination with conspiracy theories. All to avoid the obvious, that JFK was killed by an assassin enmeshed in a newly emerging movement later called the "new left." Instead, the event was treated as something to do with "right-wing extremism" or civil rights, rather than the Cold War. All the wackjob conspiracies later was just cashing in on the elite's own refusal to face facts.
The book to read on this impact is James Piereson's Camelot and the Cultural Revolution. The books to read on the facts of the assassination are those of Gerard Posner and Vincent Bugliosi.
The real impact of Kennedy's assassination and the mishandled Warren Commission was to validate an elite politics of distraction and spark a fascination with conspiracy theories. All to avoid the obvious, that JFK was killed by an assassin enmeshed in a newly emerging movement later called the "new left." Instead, the event was treated as something to do with "right-wing extremism" or civil rights, rather than the Cold War. All the wackjob conspiracies later was just cashing in on the elite's own refusal to face facts.
The book to read on this impact is James Piereson's Camelot and the Cultural Revolution. The books to read on the facts of the assassination are those of Gerard Posner and Vincent Bugliosi.
And The Third Bullet by Stephen Hunter. :) Fiction - but he's an amazing writer, especially if one geeks out on snipers