22-11-2010, 05:34 PM
Egad! I thought we had worked through the semantics of "mastermind". As I have explained--and you have agreed--the publishers make decisions about titles, not authors. If you understand what I meant to this extent, then I--and that was my hope, when I published my post, where I had not expected Charles to persist like this!--am not going to debate this further.
Originally posted by James Fetzer:
He was the one person whose engagement was indispensable to [the assassination's] taking place. Everyone else was "replaceable", even Lee Oswald, except for LBJ. He, after all, was the person who would decide whether the full powers of the government would be unleashed to uncover and expose those responsible.
Addendum by Charles Drago:
I heartily agree. Although I would add the words "as it did" after "taking place."
The book by Phillip Nelson, LBJ: MASTERMIND OF JFK'S ASSASSINATION, is quite brilliant and vividly conveys the self-absorbed, dominating and mercurial, obsessive and disciplined mind of the man who would play the pivotal role in facilitating the assassination of his predecessor, the 35th President of the United State, John Fitzgerald Kennedy! I recommend it.
Originally posted by James Fetzer:
He was the one person whose engagement was indispensable to [the assassination's] taking place. Everyone else was "replaceable", even Lee Oswald, except for LBJ. He, after all, was the person who would decide whether the full powers of the government would be unleashed to uncover and expose those responsible.
Addendum by Charles Drago:
I heartily agree. Although I would add the words "as it did" after "taking place."
The book by Phillip Nelson, LBJ: MASTERMIND OF JFK'S ASSASSINATION, is quite brilliant and vividly conveys the self-absorbed, dominating and mercurial, obsessive and disciplined mind of the man who would play the pivotal role in facilitating the assassination of his predecessor, the 35th President of the United State, John Fitzgerald Kennedy! I recommend it.
Charles Drago Wrote:Johnnie Wayne Prewett Wrote:If you know of a scholarly work which you think would cause me to see another more likely mastermind, then I'd be glad to read it.
Emphasis added by Drago.
Why?
To illustrate the flowering negative impact of the LBJ/Mastermind book.
Efforts to trivialize the Kennedy assassination and all that it reveals about the real world once again are thriving -- in no small measure thanks to Nelson's "hypothesis."
By definition, the "scholarly" study of JFK's murder in which the "mastermind" idiocy is seriously postulated does not exist.
We are morally obliged to recognize, expose, and defeat the campaigns to render the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy as a cartoon.
Mastermind ... You can't say I didn't warn you.