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Retired teacher, MA in American History, editor and publisher at Kennedys and King.com, author and/or co-editor of Destiny Betrayed, The Assassinations anthology, The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today, and JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass. Wrote screenplays for Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited and JFK: Destiny Betrayed.
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Jim Gochenauer has Passed
James DiEugenio replied to James DiEugenio's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
I looked up p; 64 n the Zero Fail book. No objective person can interpret what she says there as dealing with the process of the Warren Commission inquiry. Its clearly Secret Service practices. I also talked to Randy T, a very good author on the subject, about Jackie during the Missile Crisis. She left for two days with her sister. Then JFK called her back. Jackie clearly had PTSD after JFK's murder. I will now put Robert Morrow on ignore, he has an agenda about a mile wide. -
Ron: First, do you really find any of those books convincing? Ragano, now there is a real BSer for you. Trafficante drove something like 300 miles to make a phone call with a kidney dialysis bag on his hip? And John Davis bought into him and wrote a brief book on this. Blakey and Billings did not reveal the fact that the alleged bookmaking connection to the Murret family was not such a connection since the guy was working on his own at the time and not for Sam Saia. That was in a two declassified interview which somehow Blakey and Billings forgot about. If you buy Waldron's C Day theory I have some prime beachfront property to sell you in Arizona. And the so called CAMTEX confession was from a guy with dementia who was hitting his head up against rocks while in prison. Jim Garrison closed about five saloons that were owned or operated by Marcello or one of his front guys in his B girl drinking clean up. He also circulated a memo to his staff about being on the lookout for any kind of Mafia leads. But Jack Ruby did not live in New Orleans. Garrison ended up thinking that there was a mob connection, although he thought it was the Lansky/Trafficante end of the Mob. The idea that a second tier mob guy like Marcello--who was not even on the national commission-- could pull of the murder of Kennedy is so bizarre that I really think its misleading.
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Trump on releasing the JFK records
James DiEugenio replied to K K Lane's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
I like the judge and think he is a fair guy. But can we believe Trump on this? What did they show him? Why would they show him compromisng stuff? -
Jim Gochenauer has Passed
James DiEugenio replied to James DiEugenio's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Incredibly, after he did his dirty work with Perry and Parkland, Elmer Moore became like the aide de camp to Earl Warren! Can you imagine that? Mr Cover up artist then becomes the chief assistant to the guy who is supposed to be finding out who killed Kennedy. Whenever you think the Warren Commission cannot get any worse, it does. Let us not forget what Elmer Moore said to Jim about Kennedy being Moscow's man. -
Jim Gochenauer has Passed
James DiEugenio replied to James DiEugenio's topic in JFK Assassination Debate
Sandy, Moore did not do his pressuring for the HSCA, it was for the Warren Commission. According to JIm, it was Moore and Roger Warner who went to Parkland. See, although the film of the Perry/Clark press conference somehow disappeared (Hmm) the Secret Service had the transcript. So Moore was called in, I think he was in Seattle, and he was going to be their initial guy on the cover up, clearly endorsed by Rowley and Kelly. -
I just learned of this from Jeff Meeks and Phil Singer. He was 77. I am glad that we got him in JFK Revisited. He was so important to that story and the cover up in the Secret Service by Elmer Moore. We found each other by accident almost at a CAPA Conference. I did not know he was going to be there, but someone told me he was and he was looking for me. So I talked to him and Oliver was at that conference and I told him we had to have him in the picture. When he came in we were doing the last round of interviews. I was talking to him, but what he was saying was so compelling that Oliver came out of his office and that was, I think, the only interview that we both conducted. When Moore showed up for the Church Committee, he brought his lawyer since he knew about Jim G.
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Picking up on that Paul. In Pittsburgh I talked about how Truman had altered FDR's foreign policy in more than one place. But the USSR was certainly one area. Anthony Eden gave an interview to a Roosevelt biographer. When Eden saw it, he would not let the guy print it. Because he was very angry about how Truman and Churchill had changed the relationship with the USSR in a disastrous way. It would not have happened if FDR had lived. I then explained how Kennedy started off as a Truman Democrat, but clearly by 1957 and the great Algeria speech, had become a Roosevelt Democrat. The Stone/Kuznick book Untold History does a nice job spelling this out.
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Robin is correct, The Book of the Film is invaluable as a chronicle of just how schizoid our so called democracy is on the JFK case. It includes the two earliest attacks on the film by Jon Margolis and George Lardner. This was over a half year before the film was released. It was like watching a national nervous breakdown take place, centered in the MSM and spreading outward. Suddenly, Oscar winning director and writer Oliver Stone was evil incarnate. And David Belin and Jerry Ford were allowed to take their bows and trash his film. Tom Wicker was especially sickening. The Ny TImes published something like 33 stories up until the premiere of the film. Incredible.
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Is it not a miracle of serendipity that the publisher of the book met Oliver at a Havana film festival and handed him this book. She said, "Do I have a book for you!." And that was the beginning of a level 9 earthquake that went on throughout the country in every institution of our society for over a year. The likes of which had never been seen in the history of cinema. Attacking a film seven months before anyone saw it. And then David Belin writing Variety magazine in an anonymous letter on the eve of the Oscars, pleading with the academy not to give JFK the Best Picture honor. It was almost like a spasm of mass hysteria out of Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudon. Except on a national scale not local.