"Anthony Marsh" <anthony_marsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Grizzlie Antagonist wrote:
>> On Jul 24, 7:11 am, john.mcad...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(John McAdams) wrote:
>>> From an e-mail correspondent:
>>>
>>> Max is still writing his book on the Warren Commission (which the Post
>>> article calls the Warner Commission):
>>>
>>>
http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/23/AR200...
>>>
>>> .John
>>> --
>>> The Kennedy Assassination Home Pagehttp://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm
>>
>>
>>
>> Holland seems to be basing his argument of a first shot before the
>> start of the Zapruder film simply upon his observation that "the
>> Secret Service guys in the second car are reacting to something just
>> as the film starts".
>>
>
> Jeez, any idiot can look at the Zapruder film and make up ridiculous
> theories based misunderstanding what it shows. For example the idiots
who
> said one of the lead cycles knew what was going on and peeled off
towards
> the TSBD. Or Robert Morningstar who claims that the Zapruder film shows
> contrails from the hot bullets in flight.
>
>> If that's all that he's relying on, then that's a poor foundation upon
>> which to base such a novel theory. There were a number of
>> disturbances that were acknowledged to have taken place on the
>> motorcade route even before it reached Dealey Plaza -- not so
>> remarkable in light of the crowd.
>>
>> Whatever they are reacting to at Z1 might have been one of them or it
>> might have been something that, in the end, turned out to be too
>> trivial to be remembered or recorded, especially in light of what
>> happened later.
>>
>> As for the JFK shooting representing a prime example of American
>> paranoia, as I have said before more than once, that can't be fully
>> understood without an understanding of the psychosis that drives the
>> American Left.
>>
>> It's just a continuance of other legal battles across the Left/Right
>> divide in which the Left -- always on the warpath against what it
>> considers to be the innate evil of the fascist beast known as
>> "Amerika" -- lines up behind a subversive and uses him to build a
>> cause celebre against "Amerika".
>>
>> Again, it goes back at least as far as Sacco/Vanzetti and through
>> Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs and through Oswald and now I suppose
>> that the latest incarnation would be the 911 conspiracy theories.
>>
>> But while Alger Hiss looked and behaved, on the surface, like a solid
>> card-carrying member of the establishment even as he was transmitting
>> secrets to the Russians, the Left today has taken on a grungier and
>> nastier appearance, due to behavioral influences set loose by the
>> 1960's.
>>
>> There's a slovenly "***, drugs, and rock & roll" look to leftist-
>> inspired conspiracy theorism now, and it poses its own form of
>> danger. Oliver Stone is simply the heir to the legacy spawned by
>> unkempt, long-haired and bearded young men whom I used to see on black-
>> and-white public television broadcasts with their charts of Dealey
>> Plaza.
>>
>> American paranoia can't be fully understood without an acknowledgement
>> of all this, and so the great American non-fiction treatment of this
>> phenomenon still has not yet been written and apparently is not being
>> written by Max Holland
>>
>> James Piereson's "Camelot and the Cultural Revolution" comes the
>> closest to getting it right.
>>
>
> You exhibit your own mental condition with these constant right-wing
jabs.
"What, art thou mad? Art thou mad? Is not the truth the truth?"
- Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act 2, Scene 4
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