04-01-2011, 04:39 AM
BY the way, the significance of this letter is that it was the beginning of the end for Max Holland at The Nation.
It is quite disturbing of course that under both Navasky and Katrina Vanden Heuvel, the policy was always more or less anti JFK and no conspiracy.
Navasky had no trouble defending Alger Hiss to his grave, and beyond. But whatever one thinks of the Hiss case, the evidence for a conspiracy in the JFK case was even more overwhelming.
And Vanden Heuvel's father actually worked for RFK in 1968.
I should add The Nation's policy on this goes back to even before Navasky. Carey McWilliams refused to publish Mark Lane's initial defense of Oswald. So he had to publish it in the National Guardian. McWilliams then endoresed the Warren COmmission in 1964 through the infamous editorial written by Prof. Andrew Hacker, who woudl later guide Edward Epstein's master's thesis which became Inquest.
Then, Fred Cook, perhaps the finest investigative journalist of the era, decided to do a report on the Warren Commission. He had to fight for months to get permission to write it. And then, McWiliams allowed a reply to it. Cook was ready to resign.
This has always been quite puzzling to me. Which is why I have never been a member of this doctrinaire left in this country. They can't see the forest for the trees.
THey therefore left a huge opening for ALex Jones. ANd he took it.
It is quite disturbing of course that under both Navasky and Katrina Vanden Heuvel, the policy was always more or less anti JFK and no conspiracy.
Navasky had no trouble defending Alger Hiss to his grave, and beyond. But whatever one thinks of the Hiss case, the evidence for a conspiracy in the JFK case was even more overwhelming.
And Vanden Heuvel's father actually worked for RFK in 1968.
I should add The Nation's policy on this goes back to even before Navasky. Carey McWilliams refused to publish Mark Lane's initial defense of Oswald. So he had to publish it in the National Guardian. McWilliams then endoresed the Warren COmmission in 1964 through the infamous editorial written by Prof. Andrew Hacker, who woudl later guide Edward Epstein's master's thesis which became Inquest.
Then, Fred Cook, perhaps the finest investigative journalist of the era, decided to do a report on the Warren Commission. He had to fight for months to get permission to write it. And then, McWiliams allowed a reply to it. Cook was ready to resign.
This has always been quite puzzling to me. Which is why I have never been a member of this doctrinaire left in this country. They can't see the forest for the trees.
THey therefore left a huge opening for ALex Jones. ANd he took it.