Univ. of Texas history professor Jeremy Suri indicts Oswald for the murder of JFK - Time magazine 7/14/24

[Robert Morrow]

[Correction: the correct spelling of Jeremi Suri is .... "Jeremi Suri" and not "Jeremy." - RM 7/15/24]

I hesitated to post this because you can read many similar MSM takes like this but I decided to show you how the mainstream media STILL treats the murder of John Kennedy, 61 years after the event.

By that, I mean they still indict Lee Harvey Oswald for the JFK assassination and say that he acted alone.

However, across many major media platforms, I have seen a growing moderation on this topic, a growing willingness to not indict Oswald for the JFK assassination or to say that the topic is still hotly debated today. Off the top of my head, 3 of the worst Lone Nutter offenders are 1) The Washington Post 2) The Dallas Morning News 3) Time magazine, the Daily Beast and any show or talking head on NBC or MSNBC. FOX is pretty bad too but that seems to be changing with the views of Tucker Carlson (now gone) and Jesse Waters.

Professor Suri is also a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Naming a "school for public affairs" after the spectacularly corrupt and greedy political criminal LBJ is like ... naming a middle school girl's volleyball team after Jeffrey Epstein.

Three of the worst groups (meaning most hewing to the Lone Nutter line) are 1) Any member of the Council on Foreign Relations 2) Time magazine and 3) any professor of history or politics at almost any university but especially at the University of Texas in Austin. Jeri Suri hits the trifecta: he is a History professor at the University of Texas and he is recently coined LIFE MEMBER of the Council on Foreign Relations and he writes essays for Time Magazine. Here is Suri's 2024 indictment of Lee Harvey Oswald:

QUOTE

Lee Harvey Oswald, probably the most notorious assassin, murdered President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, for reasons that appear to be personal, not part of a larger conspiracy.

UNQUOTE

[“How the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump Fits Into America’s Violent History,” Jeremi Suri, Time, July 14, 2024]

Web link: https://time.com/6998436/trump-rally-shooting-america-violence-history/

Jeremy Suri, Time magazine essay, July 14, 2024:

QUOTE

American society was formed from violence, and it has remained violent ever since. From settlement to independence to nationhood, the United States has required force to build its institutions. Americans have always owned guns and used them to project strength and vigor—think of the gun-slinging cowboy or the gun-carrying lawman immortalized in Hollywood. And guns have been central to our politics, including the settlement of native peoples’ lands across the United States, the importation of slavery, a civil war, and the rise of America as a global superpower. Guns have influenced the politics of every era—from the death of Alexander Hamilton to the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., among many other figures. The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13 was part of this long history. Understanding this can help us to make sense of this horrific event, and find a way forward.

Violence is persistent in American society, but its targets vary over time. For the first 150 years of U.S. history, Americans directed violence primarily against those who challenged the expansion of the nation and the growth of slavery. President Andrew Jackson, the most popular political figure of the early 19th century, was famous for his prowess as a fighter of Indians and a defender of slavery. He was a brawler, beloved by rural settlers, Southern plantation owners, and urban immigrants—all trying to get ahead with the help of righteous force. Jackson fought for them, they believed.

During the Civil War and in the decades after, violence was much more controlled by the state. The Union Army was the largest land army in the world, and the first national military organization in the United States to conscript citizens to carry guns against an enemy. The Union Army destroyed large parts of the South, killed tens of thousands of citizens, and eventually ended slavery. The United States experienced what some historians call a “Second American Revolution” from the barrels of breechloaders and other weapons. 

The Union Army was not, however, the only American organization to harness violence for political purposes. States, especially in the former Confederacy, created militias to enforce their rules and protect power for their favored populations. The Ku Klux Klan, founded in Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War, was one of many state-supported paramilitaries that systematically attacked former slaves, immigrants, and others who tried to open businesses, buy property, and vote in various communities. The Constitution granted all citizens certain legal rights, but violent groups —often operating with support from local and state governments—determined what those rights meant in practice. That dynamic still applies in some communities, especially for poor and disadvantaged citizens.

John Wilkes Booth, the actor and Confederate sympathizer who shot Abraham Lincoln, was the first presidential assassin, but not the last. As the federal government became effective at using violence to force changes throughout the country, men like Booth resisted by targeting the commander-in-chief. Booth believed he was slaying a tyrant, and his dastardly act was glorified in Southern newspapers. He became the first martyr for countless men in later decades who believed they could defend principle and find glory by using violence against the figure who commanded the most force in the country. 

A motley group of characters followed Booth as assassins and would-be assassins of Presidents. Charles Guiteau, an unsuccessful man with delusions of grandeur, shot James Garfield in 1881 because he felt the President denied him a government appointment. Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist angered by the inequalities of wealth, fired two bullets into William McKinley in 1901. John Schrank, a tavern owner in Milwaukee who feared Theodore Roosevelt was becoming a dictator by seeking a third presidential term, attempted to murder the former President in 1912. Giuseppe Zangara, a man who wanted to kill “all capitalists,” fired five shots at President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in early 1933. He missed Roosevelt, but he killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was standing next to the President-elect. Lee Harvey Oswald, probably the most notorious assassin, murdered President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, for reasons that appear to be personal, not part of a larger conspiracy. And John Hinkley Jr., an unsuccessful songwriter, shot President Ronald Reagan in early 1981, hoping to win the affections of actor Jodie Foster. 

None of these assassins were part of violent militia groups; they all acted alone. They were, however, symptoms of the larger history of violence in the country. They attained their weapons easily, they echoed others around them who glorified violence, and they had reason to believe that their violent actions would be greeted with approval in some quarters. The vigilante assassin, like the cowboy and the lawman, is part of the fabric of American culture—a figure that appeals dangerously to individuals seeking to boost themselves and their cause. 

In recent years, our partisan politics have promoted this violent tendency in American society. Political candidates and elected officials frequently call their adversaries “traitors” and “threats to America.” In 2016 then-candidate Donald Trump advocated violence against his opponent, Hillary Clinton. On Jan. 6, 2021, President Trump called on his supporters to “fight much harder” and “fight like hell” as they marched to the Capitol and tried to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s election. Trump refused to call off or condemn the violence perpetrated by his supporters on that day, and since then he has treated the men and women convicted for law-breaking as heroes.  

In October 2022 David DePape, a Trump supporter, broke into then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and assaulted her husband. He told police that he was responding to Pelosi’s alleged stealing of the election from Trump: "I was going to hold her hostage and get her to tell the truth. If she didn't tell the truth, I'd break her kneecaps."

 That is the language of violent bullying (and male misogyny) long glorified in American history. DePape believed he was a courageous vigilante for principle and people like him. That is the defiant and violent message that Trump and his supporters send every day. It makes them popular because it resonates, and it encourages attacks and shootings, especially by young men seeking to boost themselves in the eyes of their peers. They just want to be heroes, like the gunfighters before them. 

We don’t yet know why Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots at Donald Trump on July 13. This assassination attempt has been condemned by political leaders from all sides in the United States. That is necessary, but also easy. The real question is whether we are willing to see how extreme rhetoric, particularly from Trump himself, has encouraged this pre-existing tendency to violence in our society. 

We have inherited a very violent culture in the United States. Moving forward, we have a choice. We can continue to encourage violence, or, we can step back and actively discourage personal attacks, bullying, and intimidation, knowing all too well where they can lead. This glorification of violence threatens us all. But we can push against our history.

UNQUOTE

 Jeremi Suri bio: https://lbj.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/jeremi-suri

 Education

• Ph.D. in History, Yale University, 2001
• M.A. in History, Ohio University, 1996
• A.B. in History, Stanford University, 1994

 

 

 

Edited 19 hours ago by Robert Morrow

[Benjamin Cole]

2 hours ago, Robert Morrow said:

I hesitated to post this because you can read many similar MSM takes like this but I decided to show you how the mainstream media STILL treats the murder of John Kennedy, 61 years after the event.

By that, I mean they still indict Lee Harvey Oswald for the JFK assassination and say that he acted alone.

However, across many major media platforms, I have seen a growing moderation on this topic, a growing willingness to not indict Oswald for the JFK assassination or to say that the topic is still hotly debated today. Off the top of my head, 3 of the worst Lone Nutter offenders are 1) The Washington Post 2) The Dallas Morning News 3) Time magazine, the Daily Beast and any show or talking head on NBC or MSNBC. FOX is pretty bad too but that seems to be changing with the views of Tucker Carlson (now gone) and Jesse Waters.

Professor Suri is also a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Naming a "school for public affairs" after the spectacularly corrupt and greedy political criminal LBJ is like ... naming a middle school girl's volleyball team after Jeffrey Epstein.

Three of the worst groups (meaning most hewing to the Lone Nutter line) are 1) Any member of the Council on Foreign Relations 2) Time magazine and 3) any professor of history or politics at almost any university but especially at the University of Texas in Austin. Jeri Suri hits the trifecta: he is a History professor at the University of Texas and he is recently coined LIFE MEMBER of the Council on Foreign Relations and he writes essays for Time Magazine. Here is Suri's 2024 indictment of Lee Harvey Oswald:

QUOTE

Lee Harvey Oswald, probably the most notorious assassin, murdered President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, for reasons that appear to be personal, not part of a larger conspiracy.

UNQUOTE

[“How the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump Fits Into America’s Violent History,” Jeremy Suri, Time, July 14, 2024]

Web link: https://time.com/6998436/trump-rally-shooting-america-violence-history/

Jeremy Suri, Time magazine essay, July 14, 2024:

QUOTE

American society was formed from violence, and it has remained violent ever since. From settlement to independence to nationhood, the United States has required force to build its institutions. Americans have always owned guns and used them to project strength and vigor—think of the gun-slinging cowboy or the gun-carrying lawman immortalized in Hollywood. And guns have been central to our politics, including the settlement of native peoples’ lands across the United States, the importation of slavery, a civil war, and the rise of America as a global superpower. Guns have influenced the politics of every era—from the death of Alexander Hamilton to the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., among many other figures. The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on July 13 was part of this long history. Understanding this can help us to make sense of this horrific event, and find a way forward.

Violence is persistent in American society, but its targets vary over time. For the first 150 years of U.S. history, Americans directed violence primarily against those who challenged the expansion of the nation and the growth of slavery. President Andrew Jackson, the most popular political figure of the early 19th century, was famous for his prowess as a fighter of Indians and a defender of slavery. He was a brawler, beloved by rural settlers, Southern plantation owners, and urban immigrants—all trying to get ahead with the help of righteous force. Jackson fought for them, they believed.

During the Civil War and in the decades after, violence was much more controlled by the state. The Union Army was the largest land army in the world, and the first national military organization in the United States to conscript citizens to carry guns against an enemy. The Union Army destroyed large parts of the South, killed tens of thousands of citizens, and eventually ended slavery. The United States experienced what some historians call a “Second American Revolution” from the barrels of breechloaders and other weapons. 

The Union Army was not, however, the only American organization to harness violence for political purposes. States, especially in the former Confederacy, created militias to enforce their rules and protect power for their favored populations. The Ku Klux Klan, founded in Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil War, was one of many state-supported paramilitaries that systematically attacked former slaves, immigrants, and others who tried to open businesses, buy property, and vote in various communities. The Constitution granted all citizens certain legal rights, but violent groups —often operating with support from local and state governments—determined what those rights meant in practice. That dynamic still applies in some communities, especially for poor and disadvantaged citizens.

John Wilkes Booth, the actor and Confederate sympathizer who shot Abraham Lincoln, was the first presidential assassin, but not the last. As the federal government became effective at using violence to force changes throughout the country, men like Booth resisted by targeting the commander-in-chief. Booth believed he was slaying a tyrant, and his dastardly act was glorified in Southern newspapers. He became the first martyr for countless men in later decades who believed they could defend principle and find glory by using violence against the figure who commanded the most force in the country. 

A motley group of characters followed Booth as assassins and would-be assassins of Presidents. Charles Guiteau, an unsuccessful man with delusions of grandeur, shot James Garfield in 1881 because he felt the President denied him a government appointment. Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist angered by the inequalities of wealth, fired two bullets into William McKinley in 1901. John Schrank, a tavern owner in Milwaukee who feared Theodore Roosevelt was becoming a dictator by seeking a third presidential term, attempted to murder the former President in 1912. Giuseppe Zangara, a man who wanted to kill “all capitalists,” fired five shots at President-elect Franklin Roosevelt in early 1933. He missed Roosevelt, but he killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was standing next to the President-elect. Lee Harvey Oswald, probably the most notorious assassin, murdered President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, for reasons that appear to be personal, not part of a larger conspiracy. And John Hinkley Jr., an unsuccessful songwriter, shot President Ronald Reagan in early 1981, hoping to win the affections of actor Jodie Foster. 

None of these assassins were part of violent militia groups; they all acted alone. They were, however, symptoms of the larger history of violence in the country. They attained their weapons easily, they echoed others around them who glorified violence, and they had reason to believe that their violent actions would be greeted with approval in some quarters. The vigilante assassin, like the cowboy and the lawman, is part of the fabric of American culture—a figure that appeals dangerously to individuals seeking to boost themselves and their cause. 

In recent years, our partisan politics have promoted this violent tendency in American society. Political candidates and elected officials frequently call their adversaries “traitors” and “threats to America.” In 2016 then-candidate Donald Trump advocated violence against his opponent, Hillary Clinton. On Jan. 6, 2021, President Trump called on his supporters to “fight much harder” and “fight like hell” as they marched to the Capitol and tried to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden’s election. Trump refused to call off or condemn the violence perpetrated by his supporters on that day, and since then he has treated the men and women convicted for law-breaking as heroes.  

In October 2022 David DePape, a Trump supporter, broke into then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and assaulted her husband. He told police that he was responding to Pelosi’s alleged stealing of the election from Trump: "I was going to hold her hostage and get her to tell the truth. If she didn't tell the truth, I'd break her kneecaps."

 That is the language of violent bullying (and male misogyny) long glorified in American history. DePape believed he was a courageous vigilante for principle and people like him. That is the defiant and violent message that Trump and his supporters send every day. It makes them popular because it resonates, and it encourages attacks and shootings, especially by young men seeking to boost themselves in the eyes of their peers. They just want to be heroes, like the gunfighters before them. 

We don’t yet know why Thomas Matthew Crooks fired multiple shots at Donald Trump on July 13. This assassination attempt has been condemned by political leaders from all sides in the United States. That is necessary, but also easy. The real question is whether we are willing to see how extreme rhetoric, particularly from Trump himself, has encouraged this pre-existing tendency to violence in our society. 

We have inherited a very violent culture in the United States. Moving forward, we have a choice. We can continue to encourage violence, or, we can step back and actively discourage personal attacks, bullying, and intimidation, knowing all too well where they can lead. This glorification of violence threatens us all. But we can push against our history.

UNQUOTE

 Jeremi Suri bio: https://lbj.utexas.edu/directory/faculty/jeremi-suri

 Education

• Ph.D. in History, Yale University, 2001
• M.A. in History, Ohio University, 1996
• A.B. in History, Stanford University, 1994

 

 

 

RM--

Thanks for posting. I think keeping up with how the JFKA/RFK1As are presented in legacy media, or social media, is part of the EF-JFKA. 

In this case, the Trump attempted assassination event is leveraged to re-hash the old LN theory, especially since the Trump shooter appears (at this time) to have been a Lone Nut.  

Worth noting: It seems legacy media has narrated the Trump shooter as an LN within 24 hours, or less. 

The shooter is dead, and dead men tell no tales. 

[Robert Morrow]

6 hours ago, Benjamin Cole said:

RM--

Thanks for posting. I think keeping up with how the JFKA/RFK1As are presented in legacy media, or social media, is part of the EF-JFKA. 

In this case, the Trump attempted assassination event is leveraged to re-hash the old LN theory, especially since the Trump shooter appears (at this time) to have been a Lone Nut.  

Worth noting: It seems legacy media has narrated the Trump shooter as an LN within 24 hours, or less. 

The shooter is dead, and dead men tell no tales. 

Send me an email to Morrow321@aol.com and I will send you my entire Lone Nutter file - all the journalists, academics and media talking heads who have slurred Lee Harvey Oswald over the decades. I have been tracking them for years.

[W. Niederhut]

Thanks for posting this, Robert.

It's another obvious, atrocious example of how the CIA, et.al., have used academicians (and mainstream media contractors) to promote false narratives about U.S. government black ops.

These guys have no shame.

[Stu Wexler]

His specialty is the Civil War which makes the comment that all of his named assassins--  including JOHN WILKES BOOTH-- that much more galling. Booth was part of a conspiracy with at least 7 other people that almost decapitated the executive branch. And there are some scholars who wonder if it was backed by the Confederate Secret Service. I never know how that one gets by--  all the way to Allen Dulles.

[Robert Morrow]

6 hours ago, Stu Wexler said:

His specialty is the Civil War which makes the comment that all of his named assassins--  including JOHN WILKES BOOTH-- that much more galling. Booth was part of a conspiracy with at least 7 other people that almost decapitated the executive branch. And there are some scholars who wonder if it was backed by the Confederate Secret Service. I never know how that one gets by--  all the way to Allen Dulles.

CFR Life Member and Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs Jeremi Suri specialty is writing suck up books about Henry Kissinger. It is hard to think of even ONE PERSON who is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations who comes anywhere close to truth on the JFK Assassination. John M. McCloy, one of the Warren Commission cover up artists was a longtime Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and he as known as "Chairman of the American Establishment."

Btw I misspelled Jeremi Suri's name earlier.

Henry Kissinger and the American Century: Suri, Jeremi: 9780674032521: Amazon.com: Books

QUOTE

What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.

Drawing on research in more than six countries in addition to extensive interviews with Kissinger and others, Suri analyzes the sources of Kissinger's ideas and power and explains why he pursued the policies he did. Kissinger's German-Jewish background, fears of democratic weakness, belief in the primacy of the relationship between the United States and Europe, and faith in the indispensable role America plays in the world shaped his career and his foreign policy. Suri shows how Kissinger's early years in Weimar and Nazi Germany, his experiences in the U.S. Army and at Harvard University, and his relationships with powerful patrons--including Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon--shed new light on the policymaker.

Kissinger's career was a product of the global changes that made the American Century. He remains influential because his ideas are rooted so deeply in dominant assumptions about the world. In treating Kissinger fairly and critically as a historical figure, without polemical judgments, Suri provides critical context for this important figure. He illuminates the legacies of Kissinger's policies for the United States in the twenty-first century.

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[Stu Wexler]

https://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Other-Means-Unfinished/dp/1541758544

[Ron Bulman]

A point for consideration.  A large part of academia is funded by grants from the government, both state and national.  Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Edited 18 hours ago by Ron Bulman

[W. Niederhut]

8 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

A point for consideration.  A large part of academia is funded by grants from the government, both state and national.  Don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Yeah, Ron, and I recall reading some old articles-- from the Church Committee era-- about CIA contracts with university professors.

We know that numerous academicians worked on Richard Helms' MK-Ultra project.

Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez also worked with the CIA on his pseudo-scientific Exploding Melon model of JFK's fatal head shot.

More recently, we had LSU historian Alecia P. Long's absurd "review" of JFK Revisited in the Washington Post.

They walk among us.

It's a like a professorial version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

[Robert Morrow]

6 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

Yeah, Ron, and I recall reading some old articles-- from the Church Committee era-- about CIA contracts with university professors.

We know that numerous academicians worked on Richard Helms' MK-Ultra project.

Nobel Laureate Luis Alvarez also worked with the CIA on his pseudo-scientific Exploding Melon model of JFK's fatal head shot.

More recently, we had LSU historian Alecia P. Long's absurd "review" of JFK Revisited in the Washington Post.

They walk among us.

It's a like a professorial version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Did someone mention Luis "The Jet Effect" Alvarez? Here he is receiving a medal from ONE of the murderers of John Kennedy in January, 1964: Lyndon Johnson

You better believe this guy sucked off of federal government contracts and salaries for a very long time.

https://repository.aip.org/islandora/object/nbla:289534

Abstract/Description:	Left to right: Luis Alvarez receiving the 1963 National Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson at a ceremony in the White House, "For his inspiring leadership in experimental high energy physics, continuing development of the bubble chamber, discovery of many states of elementary particles, and his contributions to National defense."
Subject(s):	Profile portraits Medals Presidents Awards Portraits, Group Washington (D.C.) Alvarez, Luis W., 1911-1988 Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Date Created:	January 1964
Credit Line:	Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, gift of Peter Trower
Catalog ID:	Alvarez Luis C14