01-10-2013, 01:44 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:I can't emphasize enough how for many liberals, the JFK assassination is a conspiracy too far. It means, first of all, hurting Earl Warren's reputation (a hero to most of them, including myself when I was much younger). That stops most of them right there. You can try to explain that Warren only thought he was preventing WWIII and a new Red Scare at home, but it doesn't help.
Also, many liberals still want to have faith in federal government institutions, and this case doesn't make any of them look good. So it's an ideological mindset that they can't change, a new paradigm they can't accept.
That is exactly why it was so important to have the fake commission headed by Earl Warren. He was a respected jurist. (In spite of what he did to the Japanese). It had to be someone like him to get people to have faith in it. The story goes that LBJ convinced him by terrifying him about a potential nuclear war with Russia, that he left the room in tears. I have never believed this tale. I believe they had something on him and it was blackmail. Personal opinion only with no evidence to back it up. Just that the tale they gave sounded totally phony. Did Warren ever express any doubts later in life about the dubious Commission that bore his name? That Commission is his legacy, in spite of all the advancements made for defendant's rights during his tenure at head of the Supreme court.
Dawn