Douglas Caddy Posted August 21, 2021 Share Posted August 21, 2021 Whitewash II: the FBI's secret service cover up with Harold Weisberg (KPFK, 1966) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfw-ZpgUrl8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Coleman Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Tried reading the Whitewash books, very individual writing style, like he’s stood at the end of a bar shouting at you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Govus Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Flinty. His difficulties getting published perhaps extended to getting edited. Currently I'm listening to this interview about Whitewash II, while reading Whitewash III. Whitewash III is about the photographic evidence which should be in the Warren Commission exhibits, but was instead suppressed. Ironically or not, the .pdf reprint of Whitewash III itself has no photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Andrews Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 5 hours ago, George Govus said: Ironically or not, the .pdf reprint of Whitewash III itself has no photographs. Neither does the EPUB version, which is inexplicably 51MB in size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Mellor Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 5 hours ago, David Andrews said: Neither does the EPUB version, which is inexplicably 51MB in size. The title 'Photographic Whitewash' causes expectation of a Groden type publication. Sadly there are only two photographs in the almost three hundred page book & both are grainy b/w images of the TSBD. Weisberg's text documents the photographic evidence that WC never got to view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph McBride Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Remember how Weisberg tried to sabotage Oliver Stone's JFK while it was still shooting. You wonder what his actual allegiances were. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Govus Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 (edited) I'll have to get acquainted with that story, Joseph. Interesting that in the introduction to Whitewash III, Weisberg, writing in 1967, mentions effort on his part to stay away from what Garrison was doing in New Orleans, as a way of helping Garrison's cause. And here I was, getting all hepped up about Weisberg being a former O.S.S. analyst. One gets so tired of all these former O.S.S. types turning out to be suspects in Kennedy's murder. Edited August 25, 2021 by George Govus spelling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Mellor Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 I know nothing about Weisberg's 'sabotage' of Stone's movie, but I just don't see such a prolific author as being on the dark side. Something of a curmudgeon , but as Douglas' vid shows he was very articulate & firm in his beliefs. I have everything he published, can't see him as a false prophet. His belief in Oswald in the Altgens has long interested me & also Zapruder's claim his camera was set to 24fps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawrence Schnapf Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 He was a classic curmudgeon but his persistence helped change the Freedom of Information Act. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wengler Posted September 6, 2021 Share Posted September 6, 2021 Many of Weisberg books were self-published. That includes any typo errors. Oswald in New Orleans was published by Published by Canyon Books, 1967 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Allison Posted September 7, 2021 Share Posted September 7, 2021 (edited) I think Weisberg was upset by the direction Garrison ended up taking, so that might have something to do with it. Or maybe he was pissed he wasn't asked to be a consultant by Mr. Stone. Oswald in New Orleans is a really good book, very important for its time, as well as more readable than his others. Weisberg desperately needed an editor and his books were almost impossible to read because he refused to let anyone help him. A mistake on his part, IMO. Edit: Sounds like there is more to the story; I imagine Jim DiEugenio would know the details. But for now, Garrison wrote the forward to Weisberg's OINO, and Weisberg gave info to his Grand Jury: https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/garr/grandjury/pdf/Weisberg.pdf Weisberg had an early draft of the JFK script, and annotated it with comments for Stone. I reckon something went sideways at that point... https://archive.org/details/early-draft-of-jfk-by-oliver-stone-and-zachary-sklar.-handwritten-notes-by-resea/mode/2up Reading the early draft is fascinating though, as is his commentary (when it's legible enough to read). Edited September 7, 2021 by Matt Allison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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