30-01-2015, 09:16 PM
I'm in the middle of reading Chuck Helppie's novel Kennedy Must Be Killed. Anyone else familiar with it? It's pretty well done. The plot is told from the point of view of the Grassy Knoll gunman (fictional character Patrick McCarthy), how he is recruited into the plot by "The Patriots," and then later (during the HSCA) how he worries about being killed by them.
McCarthy is an idealistic all-American Boy Scout type, coming of age at the beginning of the Cold War, convinced that Communism is threatening America. He rises rapidly in the CIA and participates in many major covert operations. He also becomes a first-rate sniper. The Patriots are powerful men convinced that the America they know is threatened by JFK, whom they view as dangerously naive in his policies, reckless and undisciplined in his personal life, and on too many drugs to deal with his health problems. He is a security threat, in other words. I remember Noel Twyman advancing this theory in Bloody Treason.
McCarthy is an idealistic all-American Boy Scout type, coming of age at the beginning of the Cold War, convinced that Communism is threatening America. He rises rapidly in the CIA and participates in many major covert operations. He also becomes a first-rate sniper. The Patriots are powerful men convinced that the America they know is threatened by JFK, whom they view as dangerously naive in his policies, reckless and undisciplined in his personal life, and on too many drugs to deal with his health problems. He is a security threat, in other words. I remember Noel Twyman advancing this theory in Bloody Treason.