My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Tom Huston]

Finally, I got to spend the entire day Saturday reading this book. There are things I take issue with, that I have discussed in private...as I don't wish to get into it yet again with an author to whom he gives too much credit, inho.
I LOVE the stuff on "Saint Mary". I have waited a very very long time to see her sorry ass busted. She fooled so many, and even in death continues to.
I loved the personal stuff...I so identified with it. I guess many kids from that era probably do. Especially the ones of us who had father issues. JFK became a father figure for me at 11. I adored him. His assassination changed my life completely. That event would drive me for the rest of my life. To seek justice, (thus law school), to connect the dots to all the deep events that followed.
And here we are. Basically a police state. Now, if you believe 9-11 was an inside job, you are considered a "terrorist". Fema camps next?

Dawn

Dawn, my sentiments exactly...I really believe for someone who did not live through the assassination it is difficult if not imposssible to know the way so many Americans actually felt about JFK. There has been no political figure that has come within a shadow of the respect and admiration common folk had for him. I just can't imagine people crying in the streets for Bush, Reagan, or any of the presidents since. We truly felt a real sense of hope and optimism for the future and it was snuffed out that day in Dallas.
I do have one more question for Mr. McBride though and that is in regards to Ed Hoffmann. Was there something about his testimony that bothered you? He was the one witness who said he actually saw the shooters that day. Having heard (TMHKK) his testimony and read his accounts that day I found him one of the most credible witnesses. Perhaps I am a bit biased in that I have hearing impaired son and I know first hand of the difficulties involved with deaf communication with hearing people. My personal feeling is it has been too easy to discount his testimony. I believe it was Helen Keller who was both blind and deaf that said if she could have one of the two senses back she would have the hearing back, not eyesight. The other thing with deaf folks is they tend to have super keen eyesight in that they use their eyes to see and hear. Perhaps there is something ese I don't know about his testimony but if I had to rely on two witnesses for a visual report on an event and one had normal hearing and the other was deaf I would take the deaf one's recollection hands down. Interested to know your thoughts...