12-12-2013, 04:14 PM
I know that on the scale of conspiracy theories about JFK, this one is probably the scariest. It's a long way from where I used to be (mobsters, rogue CIA, Cuban exiles). It's scarier than LBJ/Hoover/Castro or whoever did it. Watching that documentary "Militainment Inc." reminded me of our news "presstitutes" and the Pentagon's liason office with the entertainment industry. Could a movie like Seven Days in May be made today?
Unfortunately this theory has the benefit of explaining why the cover-up has lasted for so long, why the media is even more firmly on board with the official story, why the US military machine has exploded out of control in the last 50 years, why our popular culture is ever more militarized.
Look at that 1971 interview with LeMay, where he says he was "off some place" at the time of the assassination. The dripping contempt for the Kennedy crowd ("who expected to be stepped on like the cockroaches they were").
As Harold Weisberg, that most cautious of researchers said in his unpublished manuscript for Whitewash VI:
"How can mature people consider what we have just seen and not wonder if there had been a military conspiracy to get rid of the President or a multi-faceted conspiracy that required the burning of those autopsy materials as soon as it was known that Oswald was killed and there would be no trial at which the autopsy materials would have to be produced and subjected to cross examination?"
"Aside from the grossest improprieties in taking over a medicolegal function required to be completely independent, especially when that is an inquest into how a President was assassinated, can this threatening, this ordering of what must be left out or altered, do other than feed conspiratorial belief about the involvement of the military in some kind of plot?"
"That a "red" was the assassin was automatically widely accepted, particularly by the major media during those days of the "cold war" that Kennedy was trying to end."
Unfortunately this theory has the benefit of explaining why the cover-up has lasted for so long, why the media is even more firmly on board with the official story, why the US military machine has exploded out of control in the last 50 years, why our popular culture is ever more militarized.
Look at that 1971 interview with LeMay, where he says he was "off some place" at the time of the assassination. The dripping contempt for the Kennedy crowd ("who expected to be stepped on like the cockroaches they were").
As Harold Weisberg, that most cautious of researchers said in his unpublished manuscript for Whitewash VI:
"How can mature people consider what we have just seen and not wonder if there had been a military conspiracy to get rid of the President or a multi-faceted conspiracy that required the burning of those autopsy materials as soon as it was known that Oswald was killed and there would be no trial at which the autopsy materials would have to be produced and subjected to cross examination?"
"Aside from the grossest improprieties in taking over a medicolegal function required to be completely independent, especially when that is an inquest into how a President was assassinated, can this threatening, this ordering of what must be left out or altered, do other than feed conspiratorial belief about the involvement of the military in some kind of plot?"
"That a "red" was the assassin was automatically widely accepted, particularly by the major media during those days of the "cold war" that Kennedy was trying to end."