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It's good to be asked to address JFK's party members - Joseph McBride - 13-05-2014 [size=12][/SIZE] [size=12][/SIZE] [size=12]San Francisco Progressive Democrats of America
[size=12][size=12][size=12]The JFK Assassination Fifty Years On [size=12]What Do We Know? What Does It Matter? [/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE][/SIZE] Thursday, May 22, 7:00 PM Joseph McBride, a professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University and a journalist since 1960, has been a lifelong sceptic of the official Warren Commission version of the Kennedy assassination. More importantly, he has dedicated significant time to trying to uncover the true story of the events in Dallas in November, 1963. In 2013, he published the results of his half-century effort in Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit. Please join us to hear him share his findings and perspective.
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[/SIZE] [/SIZE] It's good to be asked to address JFK's party members - Dawn Meredith - 13-05-2014 What is amazing to me is that there are "progressive Democrats" who actually care. For the most part they are totally ignorant- by choice- on this case. At least that has been my experience the last 50 years. So sock it to 'em Joe. Perhaps the trend will spread. Dawn It's good to be asked to address JFK's party members - Magda Hassan - 13-05-2014 Hey, wouldn't that be good? It's good to be asked to address JFK's party members - Drew Phipps - 13-05-2014 Hopefully someone will record the speech and post in on the internet...(hint) It's good to be asked to address JFK's party members - Joseph McBride - 24-05-2014 I had a rewarding experience speaking last night to the Progressive Democrats of America, San Francisco. I spoke on my research into the assassination and the Tippit killing and why the events of November 1963 were a coup d'etat and why that matters so much today, because that delegitimizing of our government had led to all of our current problems. The audience was most attentive and concerned and asked excellent questions, so we had a good discussion. Readers of this forum will be especially pleased to learn that I started by taking a poll of the group's views on the events of November 1963. There were eighteen people in the audience. Not one person raised his or her hand when I asked who thought a lone gunman or Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy. Every hand in the room went up when I asked who thought the assassination was a conspiracy. One person thought Oswald may have had some involvement in the plot. Two people thought Oswald killed Tippit. And that was before I laid out my case for Oswald's innocence in both murders. So it was a most promising sign to spread the word to a thoughtful and committed group from JFK's party who still believe in working within the system we have to spread their progressive views. The PDA is trying to get Bernie Sanders to run for president as a Democrat rather than as an independent. While I am less persuaded that the system is workable, I applaud their continued belief in trying to change it. When one woman remarked since that the pain of 1963 is so horrible, should we not try to put it behind us, I said yes, it's still horrible, but we can't put it behind us because it has led to what we now live in, which is not the country I thought I was being raised in when I worked for Kennedy in 1960. I said we can't change that world without facing the truth about the Coup of 1963. I received a respectful hearing on that point, and there seemed to be considerable agreement. This experience made me realized that we researchers ought to reach out more to speak to groups outside our "base." We might be pleasantly surprised with what we find, with how receptive people have become. I told the PDA group that I found more anger and opposition from friends and others when I expressed my views about the assassination in the past, until recent years when our situation became more obvious with 9/11, W, the surveillance state, Obama and his assassinations by drone, etc. I said the mainstream media are as big a problem as the government, or worse, but that three-fourths of the public still know better. And I found that the leader of the PDA in San Francisco, Tom Gallagher, became interested in the JFK case by reading Computers and Animation long ago and by sharing thoughts with his longtime friend Carl Oglesby, whose THE YANKEE AND COWBOY WAR I strongly recommended to my listeners as a deeply insightful book that is prescient about what came after its publication. The book is now freely available in PDF format online. Since people expressed interest in seeing my talk outside San Francisco, I recorded it on video, and if it comes out OK, I will try to post it somewhere. |