15-02-2011, 03:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 15-02-2011, 03:44 PM by Charles Drago.)
Sorry, Trowbridge, but either we're using two very different editions of The Search for the Manchurian Candidate, or you're confusing your source materials, or you're making the whole thing up.
This morning I closely examined the Times Book first edition of 1979.
The material which you claim can be found on pages 202-203 simply is not there.
The "last" Chapter 11 footnote which you claim can be found on page 244 is even more problematic. John Marks did not number his footnotes. And the final page of the above-referenced volume is Index page 242.
There are five Index references to JFK -- none of which address issues relating to his assassination.
And the only reference to "Oswald, Lee Harvey" comes on page 145, within a discussion of the Nosenko defection.
To extend to you the benefit of the doubt, I've just ordered the 1991 Norton paperback edition, which includes an Introduction by Thomas Powers that is not in the first hardcover edition.
Amazon.com provides access to the paperback's Table of Contents and Index. Other than a difference in pagination attributable to the addition of the Introduction, there is no indication whatsoever that textual changes are present that would account for the disparities between your citations and reality.
Again ... I've ordered the paperback. As soon as it arrives I'll review it carefully. If your citations pan out, I shall not hesitate to amend this post accordingly.
But for now ...
Trowbridge, we have a problem.
This morning I closely examined the Times Book first edition of 1979.
The material which you claim can be found on pages 202-203 simply is not there.
The "last" Chapter 11 footnote which you claim can be found on page 244 is even more problematic. John Marks did not number his footnotes. And the final page of the above-referenced volume is Index page 242.
There are five Index references to JFK -- none of which address issues relating to his assassination.
And the only reference to "Oswald, Lee Harvey" comes on page 145, within a discussion of the Nosenko defection.
To extend to you the benefit of the doubt, I've just ordered the 1991 Norton paperback edition, which includes an Introduction by Thomas Powers that is not in the first hardcover edition.
Amazon.com provides access to the paperback's Table of Contents and Index. Other than a difference in pagination attributable to the addition of the Introduction, there is no indication whatsoever that textual changes are present that would account for the disparities between your citations and reality.
Again ... I've ordered the paperback. As soon as it arrives I'll review it carefully. If your citations pan out, I shall not hesitate to amend this post accordingly.
But for now ...
Trowbridge, we have a problem.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene