Flashback to the 40th (2003)

[David Josephs]

What annoys me more than anything is when I run into self-satisfied people who've read a few articles about this subject, watched a couple of "specials" on TV, and think they know Oswald did it. Any rational person knows that, for God's sake, I mean they proved it using computer technology! Computers are never wrong! They know better because they get their information about the world from Matthews/Maddow/Cooper/O'Reilly/Limbaugh or whoever.

And one day these people will be herded like sheep and turned into Soylent Green.

Try arguing with someone who refuses to read anything because he "prefers to do his own thinking". And I'm talking about a professor at a prestigious university. When challenged about what he has read or is willing to read, the response was he wasn't all that interested. This fellow, by the way, had just returned from a trip to Dallas and had visited the 6th Floor "Museum", and began to spout off all this crap as if that visit made him an expert.

Or try this one: a colleague who decides to investigate the case by reading the Warren Report, and then deciding that the whole thing points to Oswald because 1) a witness identified him (Brennan); 2) there was a palmprint on the rifle; 3) Oswald was the only one missing; 4) Oswald pulled his gun in the Texas Theatre. "That's all you really need to see he's guilty". Yep.

I mean, I can excuse the sheep who have been sheared by the media machine. But members of a "class" who are purportedly distinguished for their critical skills? There is no hope, I say.

Albert...

you might want to remind your WCR colleague that this same report was not admissible as evidence in the Claw Shaw Trial due to its worthlessness as a piece of evidence.... that is was "fraught with hearsay, unsworn testimony and contraditions" ("American Grotesque," by James Kirkwood (Simon and Schuster, NY), p114; "Oswald in New Orleans," by Harold Weisberg (Canyon Book, NY), p.242-3)

Just sayin....