14-06-2015, 08:12 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:Some Americans still read books, but Dulles was basically right most did not. Mainstream public opinion was influenced mostly by those two events IMO.Gordon Gray Wrote:The two most significant events in moving the country's understanding toward a conspiracy, were the Good Night America Z film showing, and the Stone film. It would take another event on that scale to move us again. Scientific evidence can be easily refuted by other "expert" witnesses, in the court of public opinion, as well as in court.
Actually, the first wave of skepticism was in 1966-68, when a barrage of books (Lane, Meagher, Weisberg, Thompson, Epstein, etc) came out and sold pretty well. That was back when Americans actually read books. The collapse of the Garrison investigation in 1969 caused the subject to become taboo for the next several years. Very few books on the JFK assassination were published between 1969 and 1974. Then the Z-film, Watergate, etc opened the floodgates again.