Email from Charles Drago

[Tracy Riddle]

That e-mail is disturbing and depressing. Forget about trying to change the minds of the mainstream media and the government. Too many in the research community can't even have a civil disagreement with each other. Look at any of the forums out there. We fight about big things and little things, but a lot of it is stupid crap, having more to do with our petty egos and personal agendas than actually trying to solve the case. People trying to promote themselves or make a career rather than get to the truth. All the particular theories that people cling to like security blankets, because it's so much easier to leap to conclusions rather than maintain an open, skeptical mind. "I don't know" - the three hardest words in the English language.

I bet that if the full truth of the JFK conspiracy was magically revealed to us, many researchers wouldn't accept it because it doesn't fit their pet theory, and those that did accept it would tear the others apart for being deluded or stupid, or accuse them of having been disinformation artists all these years. No, the full truth wouldn't heal us or the country; it would only set us at each others' throats some more, because that's basically what homo sapiens do best.

I go on investigating this case because I care about it personally, not because I expect anyone else to agree with me, or that it will have any impact on this mad world that's hell-bent on self-destruction. ::