The grand media myth-makers of America's past

[Douglas Caddy]

David Talbot wrote on Facebook on June 2, 2017:

Too soon? That's the gag line that comics sometimes use when audiences groan at what they think are jokes in bad taste...on topics from the assassination of Abraham Lincoln to 9/11. But "too soon" is clearly what the U.S. history establishment (including Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough) thinks, when it comes to confronting the truth about the assassination of President Kennedy, nearly 54 years after the gunfire erupted from more than o...ne location in Dealey Plaza. (Kennedy aides riding in the motorcade later told Attorney General Robert Kennedy that it felt like they were caught in a crossfire.) I'm thinking of this during the centennial of JFK's birth -- an occasion that the academic establishment SHOULD have used (like many other earlier anniversaries) to demand the release of thousands of pages of JFK-related documents still being locked away by the CIA, in violation of federal law. But the grand myth-makers of America's past slumber on, happy to be spotlighted on PBS and the cable news shows and given big book contracts and endowed chairs. Their willful ignorance is so easily purchased.