My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Charles Drago]

The scene is like
RASHOMON.

Yes, the whole case is resonant of that movie!

I add my voice to those raised in welcome, Joseph McBride. You appear to bring to these pages the all-too-rare investigative technique that answers the question, "Must our work be driven by rationality or intuition?" with a resounding "Yes!"

It was the late radical historian and JFK author George Michael Evica (And We are All Mortal; A Certain Arrogance) who first appreciated the JFK conspiracy as dramaturgy -- one vulnerable to studies by criminalists and literary scholars, but deeply understood only when both perspectives are equally valued and applied.

Given the literary inclinations and/or talents of three uber-suspects within the Facilitator level of the plot (James Jesus Angleton, David Atlee Phillips, and E. Howard Hunt) and one in the doggerel-eat-doggerel cheap seats (Clay Shaw), we should not be surprised.

I give a nod to all this in my Introduction to A Certain Arrogance. And I share a small excerpt from Evica's c.v. on this thread -- he taught Myth and Ritual in Literature, Genre Studies in Literature, Literary Criticism, Consciousness Development and the Symbolic Process, Linguistics, Film Studies, Creative Writing, Investigative Reporting, and Investigative History. He also studied Advanced Studies in Linguistics and Anthropology at Columbia University and Advanced Studies in Myth and Literature at Hartford Seminary Foundation -- to underscore my contention that the depth of one's investigation into the JFK assassination may be measured in direct proportion to the breadth of the mind conducting it.

We would benefit, I'm certain, from your thoughts on all this.

Also, you'll note above that I reference the "Facilitator" level of the JFK plot. At a certain point in any serious investigation of the assassination, the investigator must arrive at a working model for the conspiracy -- one based on fact and insight gathered to date, open to development and de-construction, and useful in the reverse-engineering of what we know to have taken place.

So as not to overload a single post, I'll go into detail a bit later.

Thanks so much for your attention.