26-07-2013, 03:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 26-07-2013, 03:51 AM by Matthew Poe.)
Joseph McBride,
Thank you for answering, it was well worth the wait. In my follow-up, I was just clarifying that I had no problem with your thesis and was not attempting a sly dig at it by mentioning Buchanan's flawed work. Because while most sources maintain he was a blacklisted communist journalist working as a computer analyst in Paris there have been suspicions voiced (at least over at EF) that he was actually affiliated with the Agency somehow. Was not perhaps Sauvage (or was it Joeston?) raising that possibility when--in a review of "WHO KILLED KENNEDY?"--he mused that Buchanan had blamed every interest that could have potentially benefited from JFK's assassination except the big one--the one that mattered the most: i.e. the Warfare State. Any thoughts in that direction, i.e. that the book would have been an attempt to take highly skeptical Europeans in the wrong direction, away from the military/CIA to the southern racists is pure speculation however, not keeping in the spirit of your work. And no matter how you slice it looking back from the generations his hunch (inside info?) about Tippitt is indeed remarkable.
I look forward more than ever to reading your book and I'm glad you are busy doing press for it.
I recommend FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS to anyone enamored with classic movies and interested in studio history. Along with a couple of others, it is in my accounting, the highest manifestation of the genre.
Thank you for answering, it was well worth the wait. In my follow-up, I was just clarifying that I had no problem with your thesis and was not attempting a sly dig at it by mentioning Buchanan's flawed work. Because while most sources maintain he was a blacklisted communist journalist working as a computer analyst in Paris there have been suspicions voiced (at least over at EF) that he was actually affiliated with the Agency somehow. Was not perhaps Sauvage (or was it Joeston?) raising that possibility when--in a review of "WHO KILLED KENNEDY?"--he mused that Buchanan had blamed every interest that could have potentially benefited from JFK's assassination except the big one--the one that mattered the most: i.e. the Warfare State. Any thoughts in that direction, i.e. that the book would have been an attempt to take highly skeptical Europeans in the wrong direction, away from the military/CIA to the southern racists is pure speculation however, not keeping in the spirit of your work. And no matter how you slice it looking back from the generations his hunch (inside info?) about Tippitt is indeed remarkable.
I look forward more than ever to reading your book and I'm glad you are busy doing press for it.
I recommend FRANK CAPRA: THE CATASTROPHE OF SUCCESS to anyone enamored with classic movies and interested in studio history. Along with a couple of others, it is in my accounting, the highest manifestation of the genre.