My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Charles Drago]

A few months back on this forum I took Vince to task vehemently -- some at the time thought violently -- for his ostensibly long-concluded affaire d'amour with Bugliosi and a lesser known, not-quite-public dalliance with Gerald Posner. In speculating on the motivations for such perfidy, I drew attention to Vince's narcissism (just yesterday, on his Facebook page, he breathlessly noted how many times he is referenced in the McBride book -- a disturbing and too-common behavior exhibited within the contexts of other JFK-related works over the years that cannot be explained as a one-off, pre-publication book promotion tactic). And I did not write off the possibility that darker agendas were at play.

Grand Guignol ensued.

Eventually an agreement was reached: I would exit stage left and wait in the wings until Vince's production was performed; only then would I come forward to offer my critique and help lead audience discussions.

Please do not read this post as a violation of my pledge. I simply wish to indicate that the points made above by Tracy Riddle are not necessarily without merit.

As for Joseph McBride: He might be better served if he exercised a more robust form of due diligence before endorsing his endorsers. Why? Because Vince's loving embrace of Phillip Nelson's "LBJ-as-JFK-assassination-'mastermind'" disinformation remains intellectually and morally indistinguishable from his previous make-out session with Bugliosi.

Time will tell.