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Reclaiming Parkland - Magda Hassan - 05-07-2013 Posted for Jim D. Quote:James DiEugenio Reclaiming Parkland - Jim DiEugenio - 05-07-2013 Thanks Magda. I don't see the cover. Did you have a problem posting it? Anyway, when its up at Amazon, I will link. Tom Hanks and Bugliosi are going to hate my guts. Man, the stuff I dug up about them. But its all footnotes, so too bad. Reclaiming Parkland - Magda Hassan - 05-07-2013 Yeah, for some reason the image didn't carry over. I tried a few times... Reclaiming Parkland - Joseph McBride - 05-07-2013 Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Thanks Magda. Sounds fascinating. The way cultural products are used for propaganda to mislead the public in relatively subtle ways (more subtle than Bugliosi's book) is an important part of the problems surrounding the case and has been from the beginning. Propaganda is all the more effective when it doesn't seem like propaganda. Oliver Stone's JFK was a clear work of agitprop and had a major impact on public perception and on releasing documents even though the mainstream media viciously attacked him. This film PARKLAND seems to offer an opportunity to study the other side of the coin. By the way, Emilio Estevez's BOBBY was a real missed opportunity. It seems basically uninterested in the actual case and is a sub-Altmanesque soap opera about peripheral characters, poorly written and directed. Reclaiming Parkland - Magda Hassan - 05-07-2013 Joseph McBride Wrote:The way cultural products are usedAnd the deconstrustion of such stories and myths is vitally important. Joseph McBride Wrote:Propaganda is all the more effectiveThey attacked him even before any one had seen it. Just the temerity to deviate from the official script was a thought crime that could not go unpunished. Reclaiming Parkland - Phil Dragoo - 05-07-2013 Tom Hanks and Bugliosi are going to hate my guts. That's simply an added pleasure. Based on the thoroughly sourced exposure of the massive CIA operation to destroy Jim Garrison in Destiny Betrayed second edition, Reclaiming Parkland is sure to be a massive antidote to the ration of crap from Bugliosi lapped up and regurgitated with Hanks' bucks. I don't find a link or publisher. No doubt by design of search algorithms. Will welcome information posted here. Reclaiming Parkland - Anthony Thorne - 05-07-2013 Here's the cover: http://r13.imgfast.net/users/1311/11/27/67/album/pr/reclai10_800x600.jpg Reclaiming Parkland - Magda Hassan - 05-07-2013 Thanks Anthony! Reclaiming Parkland - Jim DiEugenio - 05-07-2013 Thanks Anthony. The stuff about Hanks that I unearthed was almost as interesting as the stuff on Bugliosi. This is where the McBride book on Spielberg came in handy. See, these two guys were really outsiders growing up. From Joseph's book, in Spielberg's case it was because he felt ashamed to be Jewish, and Hanks because of his fractured family. When they became successful, they wanted to be insiders. And they did. I mean, everyone, like Bugliosi, pummels Stone for using too much dramatic license in JFK. But how many people know that Saving Private Ryan is demonstrably 95% bullshit. The character played by Hanks, who is really the protagonist, never even existed. And there was no platoon organized to search for Ryan, and his name was not Ryan. Did Bugliosi ever attack that film? Did George Lardner? Did the NY Times and LA Times and Time and Newsweek ever scream, "Why Spielberg's film cannot be trusted?" Nope. Because Hanks and Spielberg play the game well. And their film is in the good old war picture genre that glorifies American efforts in Europe to liberate the continent from the Nazis. See, someone like Stone doesn't see it that way. In his series The Untold History of the United States, he tells the truth: It was not America that defeated the Nazis and rolled back their European empire. It was the Russians. It wasn't Eisenhower who should be the hero of WW 2, its Zhukov, the brilliant Russian general who organized the defense of Moscow and defeated the Nazis at Stalingrad. That battle, begun 2 years before Spielberg's D Day, was the real turning point of the war. And that is why France was so weakly defended in 1944. Because Hitler lost so many men and tanks on the Russian front, where over 80% of the Wehrmacht was located. So not only is the Hanks-Spielberg film BS unto itself, its also not the truth in the gestalt. I will have a lot more to say about this in the book. Reclaiming Parkland - Phil Dragoo - 05-07-2013 Jim Ready at the first opportunity to preorder your Reclaiming Parkland I would add what we learn from Guido Giacomo Preparata, Conjuring Hitler, 2005, regarding the significant manipulation of Director of Bank of England (1922-1944) Montagu Norman. Norman in conjunction with London clubs and U.S. associates controlled the financial levers after the cunningly designed Treaty of Versailles to promote the rise of just such a nationalist party and leader as developed. The strategy was that of the Sea Powers to prevent alliance of Germany and Russia, keeping the World Island divided. Hence Barbarossa followed by Stalin's urgings delayed; finally the U.S. given the green light in 1944--the Bear had to be weakened before the Eagle could enter the continent. The standard story of the war will not treat the arrangement for the Cold War to begin from the defeat of the Axis Powers, nor the particular involvement before, during and after of U.S. agencies with the Nazi apparatus and key figures. Hence it is natural that Hanks who, as you explored, defends the myth there, would also willingly support the Big Lie of the Lone Gunman, etc. Fascinated to see your exposure of Bugliosi's treatment of Manson, as that event looms large in the legend of the American zeitgeist. Rosemary's Baby, Altamont, Tate-Bianca to prepare the unconscious for more dark gore--in the wake of the JFK, MX, MLK, RFK assassinations*. *The Assassinations, Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, 2003, recommended. Would also like to see Stone meet with Ed Haslam and work up a screenplay CHAVEZ--A CANCER ON THE PEOPLE At some point the people must be outraged |