07-05-2016, 07:06 PM
Hi everyone -- I'm the daughter of Thomas G. Buchanan, and have joined this forum so as to be able to correct any misinformation there is here about my father. For instance:
This kind of speculation spreads false information, because people tend to forget that what they're reading is indeed totally speculative. The facts are very different:
Nobody fed my father any conspiracy information to be leaked. His book was not written "too quickly" for the kind of mind he had. His theory is based on reasoning about the 'facts' presented in the media and in the interviews he conducted or meetings he had (such as the ones with Katzenbach and Willens). Some of the information in the media was contradictory, especially comparing early reports to later ones, so when analyzing it all, there was a choice to be made about which information to take as fact, which to take as a mistake that was later corrected, and which to suspect might have been deliberately changed or omitted. The analysis also involves making narrative sense out of the bits and pieces of the material one deems factual.
So if my father's theory seems to have "way too much right" to you, it's not an indication of him having insider knowledge, it's an indication that you come to the same conclusions as him when formulating your own theory about what happened. You may be trusting the same information he did, separating the wheat from the chaff in the same way he did, understanding certain socio-political dynamics in the same way, etc. Those who don't share those ways of looking at the same available information can come to totally different conclusions.
In setting the record straight on another forum, a few years ago, I gave a more detailed explanation about the timeline of the writing of Who Killed Kennedy? and what contact my father had with which government officials. You can read the blog post version of that forum response here:
[URL="http://thomasgbuchanan.com/setting-the-record-straight/"]http://thomasgbuchanan.com/setting-the-record-straight/
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I hope this helps clarify things you might have been wondering about.
:-)
Marian Buchanan
Albert Doyle Wrote:This book was written in March 1964 and nailed a lot of the conspiracy evidence before the Warren Report came out.
It is possible that Buchanan was fed conspiracy information by Washington insiders who could have investigated the assassination early-on. This may have involved Bobby Kennedy who, because of his position, could not release information he had gathered so he chose Buchanan as a leak. Buchanan wrote the book too quickly and got way too much right to not have been assisted by serious insiders. This means that there could be a whole unknown history of an inside investigation that went on immediately after the assassination of which there is no record. It is possible that it was conducted by Bobby and covered-up by CIA with his assassination. Since Buchanan got his information out before conspiracy research had began it suggests that perhaps he got his information from directly knowledgeable persons or even participants like Ruby:
http://www.amazon.com/Who-killed-Kennedy...F+Buchanan
This kind of speculation spreads false information, because people tend to forget that what they're reading is indeed totally speculative. The facts are very different:
Nobody fed my father any conspiracy information to be leaked. His book was not written "too quickly" for the kind of mind he had. His theory is based on reasoning about the 'facts' presented in the media and in the interviews he conducted or meetings he had (such as the ones with Katzenbach and Willens). Some of the information in the media was contradictory, especially comparing early reports to later ones, so when analyzing it all, there was a choice to be made about which information to take as fact, which to take as a mistake that was later corrected, and which to suspect might have been deliberately changed or omitted. The analysis also involves making narrative sense out of the bits and pieces of the material one deems factual.
So if my father's theory seems to have "way too much right" to you, it's not an indication of him having insider knowledge, it's an indication that you come to the same conclusions as him when formulating your own theory about what happened. You may be trusting the same information he did, separating the wheat from the chaff in the same way he did, understanding certain socio-political dynamics in the same way, etc. Those who don't share those ways of looking at the same available information can come to totally different conclusions.
In setting the record straight on another forum, a few years ago, I gave a more detailed explanation about the timeline of the writing of Who Killed Kennedy? and what contact my father had with which government officials. You can read the blog post version of that forum response here:
[URL="http://thomasgbuchanan.com/setting-the-record-straight/"]http://thomasgbuchanan.com/setting-the-record-straight/
[/URL]
I hope this helps clarify things you might have been wondering about.
:-)
Marian Buchanan