23-01-2014, 03:59 AM
As Harold Weisberg pointed out, the assassination is a specialized subject that requires a lot of study and a willingness to go outside the mainstream. Most academics don't have the time or motivation. The official story is too well-entrenched, and questioning it won't help their careers.
Once you've spent all that time and energy getting a position within the academic world, you don't want to mess it up. A lot of it is just laziness. Many historians deal with it in just a sentence or two, like Barbara Tuchman in The March of Folly.
Once you've spent all that time and energy getting a position within the academic world, you don't want to mess it up. A lot of it is just laziness. Many historians deal with it in just a sentence or two, like Barbara Tuchman in The March of Folly.