My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Joseph McBride]

Thanks, Tom. Great series Len has put together. Jeff Carter
does excellent work as videographer. I am happy to have
been asked to do the episodes on the media and on Tippit.
The mainstream media's failure to cover the assassination honestly
has always been one of my main areas of interest. It is one
of our biggest problems as a society. Most mainstream historians
have fallen down on the job as well. I admire Robert Caro's first
three volumes on Johnson, but he blew it on the fourth volume
and printed flagrant falsehoods (e.g., the story about Rufus Youngblood
jumping over the seat to cover LBJ with his body on the
way to Parkland, which Senator Ralph Yarborough, who was riding
in the back seat with LBJ and Lady Bird, described to me as "a cock-and-bull tale"). Caro's poor performance shows how much of a taboo there
is to upheld on the subject of the assassination in the MSM if you want the prestige
and the big bucks. I sent Caro my book but haven't heard back from him.