28-11-2011, 06:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 28-11-2011, 09:02 PM by Adele Edisen.)
Excerpted from Albert Doyle's reference containng the citation of Gerard Colby's book, DUPONT DYNASTY. pp. 324-330:
"Indeed, Butler's testimony was at first subjected to a shower of ridicule. Even the New York Times, which had described the Liberty League's founding as having "a real chance to be useful"75 hurriedly dismissed the "so-called plot of Wall Street interests" as having "failed to emerge in any alarming proportion," while Time, the leading anti-New Deal publication of J. P. Morgan's trusted friend and journalist protégé, Henry Luce, called it a "plot without plotters ... no military officer of the United States since the late tempestuous George Custer has succeeded in publicly floundering in so much hot water as Smedley Darlington Butler."
Thanking their stars for having such sure-fire publicity dropped in their laps, Representatives McCormick and Dickstein began calling witnesses to expose the 'plot.' But there did not seem to be any plotters. . . Mr. Morgan, just off a boat from Europe, had nothing to say but partner Thomas Lamont did: 'Perfect moonshine! Too utterably ridiculous to comment upon!' "76
Significantly, among Time's leading stockholders at the time was Luce's college chum, Henry P. Davison, like Lamont, a partner of J. P. Morgan & Company.77 Morgan's friend Grayson M.-P. Murphy derided Butler's charges as "a joke-a publicity stunt" and received wider coverage than Butler's own testimony or Van Zandt's and French's corroboration. Then a curtain of silence fell. When the House Committee released its report, there was little comment from the press. Of all the country's large newspapers, most of which were (and are) controlled by well-financed syndicates, only the liberal New York Post, French's Philadelphia Record, and two New Jersey papers printed the details of the conspiracy and the corroborating testimonies. Not a word of the plot was printed in Delaware's Du Pontcontrolled press, and the "MacGuire Affair" slipped into the fog of unrecorded history."
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The mainstream press, owned and controlled by Wall Street interests, managed to mock and ignore this story of treason. Most historians omitted it from their textbooks so a half-century passed before Americans began to learn of this important event. Today we can see the parallel in the cover-up of the Kennedy assassination by the same mainstream publications who continue to protect the guilty criminals and perpetuate the myth of the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald who was found by the Dallas police to have no nitrate flecks on his cheeks, indicating that he had not fired a rifle or carbine that day.
If we had a Free Press, more courageous reporters, and forensic criminal investigators, the murder of John Kennedy could have been solved within a year or two, and the American people would have known the truth. Instead we are still bombarded with falsehoods, ambiguities, and the lack of justice. Our government and its agencies have been stymied or have refused to act, and they, too, protect the guilty.
Adele Edisen
"Indeed, Butler's testimony was at first subjected to a shower of ridicule. Even the New York Times, which had described the Liberty League's founding as having "a real chance to be useful"75 hurriedly dismissed the "so-called plot of Wall Street interests" as having "failed to emerge in any alarming proportion," while Time, the leading anti-New Deal publication of J. P. Morgan's trusted friend and journalist protégé, Henry Luce, called it a "plot without plotters ... no military officer of the United States since the late tempestuous George Custer has succeeded in publicly floundering in so much hot water as Smedley Darlington Butler."
Thanking their stars for having such sure-fire publicity dropped in their laps, Representatives McCormick and Dickstein began calling witnesses to expose the 'plot.' But there did not seem to be any plotters. . . Mr. Morgan, just off a boat from Europe, had nothing to say but partner Thomas Lamont did: 'Perfect moonshine! Too utterably ridiculous to comment upon!' "76
Significantly, among Time's leading stockholders at the time was Luce's college chum, Henry P. Davison, like Lamont, a partner of J. P. Morgan & Company.77 Morgan's friend Grayson M.-P. Murphy derided Butler's charges as "a joke-a publicity stunt" and received wider coverage than Butler's own testimony or Van Zandt's and French's corroboration. Then a curtain of silence fell. When the House Committee released its report, there was little comment from the press. Of all the country's large newspapers, most of which were (and are) controlled by well-financed syndicates, only the liberal New York Post, French's Philadelphia Record, and two New Jersey papers printed the details of the conspiracy and the corroborating testimonies. Not a word of the plot was printed in Delaware's Du Pontcontrolled press, and the "MacGuire Affair" slipped into the fog of unrecorded history."
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The mainstream press, owned and controlled by Wall Street interests, managed to mock and ignore this story of treason. Most historians omitted it from their textbooks so a half-century passed before Americans began to learn of this important event. Today we can see the parallel in the cover-up of the Kennedy assassination by the same mainstream publications who continue to protect the guilty criminals and perpetuate the myth of the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald who was found by the Dallas police to have no nitrate flecks on his cheeks, indicating that he had not fired a rifle or carbine that day.
If we had a Free Press, more courageous reporters, and forensic criminal investigators, the murder of John Kennedy could have been solved within a year or two, and the American people would have known the truth. Instead we are still bombarded with falsehoods, ambiguities, and the lack of justice. Our government and its agencies have been stymied or have refused to act, and they, too, protect the guilty.
Adele Edisen