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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.
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I am familiar with the whole October Surprise occurrence and have read more than one book on it. And am familiar with Trento. But the more I read about Riconosciuto, the more I see that the film cut out his credibility problems. And it looks like Danny fell for him. Which makes the scene about the fake Z film very appropriate.
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I watched it last night and I am doing some research on the case. As Stu says, this is a complex case because there is a lot of extraneous stuff that was applied to the Inslaw case, much of it by Hamilton and Michael Riconosciuto. The latter's story about the October Surprise seems just simply wrong to me. And if you can buy it he was also involved with the MJ 12 case. To call him a "spinner" is maybe giving him too much credit. I also wonder about the whole Trapdoor angle to Promis.
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I thought you had complained about this before Vince. This just reinforces it. Shame. And thanks about the film and book. -
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Karl: How can anyone ignore Wecht's explication of how Tomlinson found the Magic Bullet--or whatever it was-- on the gurney? For many people that was a highlight of the film. -
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BTW, since we will be talking about the book tonight, I just talked to Daniel Jones. He is the Tampa podcaster who did a two hour interview with me about JFK Revisited. I wanted him to do one about The JFK Assassinations Chokeholds with Paul Bleau. He told me that he would rather not since You Tube is suppressing his JFK assassination stuff. Whew. Did not VInce Palamara make this same complaint on this forum? -
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Well, its kind of natural to assume Stu. -
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Bill, Ron and Stu, I was just told by Oliver's producer that this is a different Sean Stone that just passed away. Not his son. -
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Oliver and myself will be on Coast to Coast tomorrow night from 10-12 PST with Richard Syrett. The book The JFK Assassination Chokeholds will be the ostensible subject. But since Stone is on we will discuss the scope and impact of JFK Revisited. Right now it is number 8 on Amazon for documentaries. This is over a year and a half after its initial release. And I found out from the producer that the film has now sold in the following countries and territories: All of North America, meaning US and Canada. The UK and Ireland. France Spain Italy Germany Mexico, Central America and South America Australia and New Zealand Greece India Poland The former area of Yugoslavia Japan Hong Kong Depending on how you count them, that is 18 nations and territories. It is safe to say that no JFK documentary has ever had this scope and impact. Always remember: When it first came out, Steve Roe said it would go straight to You Tube. 😀 -
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Mark Flanagan was the assistant to Purdy. Purdy was the chief investigator on the medical side for Blakey and Baden.