26-12-2013, 10:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 26-12-2013, 11:02 PM by James Norwood.)
Good satire will always have an aura of truth and raise awareness about a serious matter, no matter how absurd or funny it appears on the surface.
Russ Baker's spoof on the Sixth Floor Museum initially fooled me and others who visited his website:
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/12/24/fun-las...or-museum/
The truth lying beneath the humor is that the Sixth Floor Museum does not provide a fair sampling of scholarly materials on the JFK assassination. Currently, two of the books appearing on its "Books and Media" section on the Sixth Floor website include Chris Matthews biography, Jack Kennedy--Elusive Hero, and Stephen King's novel, 11/22/63!
To its credit, the museum promotes John Kelin's outstanding Praise From a Future Generation about the earliest researchers into the JFK case. But there are none of the excellent books from the past decade, including those of James Douglass, Jim DiEugenio, John Armstrong, and Douglas Horne, that address the most recent research into the case.
This museum has unlimited potential for outreach to schools in the goal of raising consciousness about the assassination. Unfortunately, it hasn't reached its potential as of the 50th anniversary of the death of President Kennedy.
James
For a glance at the "real" items featured for sale by the Sixth Floor Museum, see:
http://store.jfk.org/category_s/42.htm?s...=40&page=2
Russ Baker's spoof on the Sixth Floor Museum initially fooled me and others who visited his website:
http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/12/24/fun-las...or-museum/
The truth lying beneath the humor is that the Sixth Floor Museum does not provide a fair sampling of scholarly materials on the JFK assassination. Currently, two of the books appearing on its "Books and Media" section on the Sixth Floor website include Chris Matthews biography, Jack Kennedy--Elusive Hero, and Stephen King's novel, 11/22/63!
To its credit, the museum promotes John Kelin's outstanding Praise From a Future Generation about the earliest researchers into the JFK case. But there are none of the excellent books from the past decade, including those of James Douglass, Jim DiEugenio, John Armstrong, and Douglas Horne, that address the most recent research into the case.
This museum has unlimited potential for outreach to schools in the goal of raising consciousness about the assassination. Unfortunately, it hasn't reached its potential as of the 50th anniversary of the death of President Kennedy.
James
For a glance at the "real" items featured for sale by the Sixth Floor Museum, see:
http://store.jfk.org/category_s/42.htm?s...=40&page=2