Roger Feinman on CBS's cover up of the JFK case

[Richard Coleman]

Such much of the world we live in came out of the inferno of World War II. That whole generation in particular was shaped by the experience of it, and America suddenly becoming the dominant superpower. To many of them, the strategic "national interest" was more important than the truth and the facts about any one event.

So true. I would only add that guys like these identified with elite power, and were part of its apparatus. Democracy, the right of citizens to know what their government is up to, and the job of a free press to expose the wrongdoings of government became a quaint foolishness to be chuckled over during after-dinner brandy and cigars.