Guido Preparata's website

[Jan Klimkowski]

Phil - thank you for posting that correspondence.

Prof Guido Preparata wrote:

even if we assume that it was a planned regicide (i.e. conspiracy, which it was), the question then becomes: why not, say, inoculate him with deadly poison at night in the utpost secrecy in the White House, and declare the following morning that he had suffered a heart attack? Why orchestrate that massive, pandemonium in Dallas? So in a sense that booklet was arguing something altogether different, and a bit crazy, which was what caught my attention (the total shift on perspective which occasionally allows one to solve the riddle): and that was that the murder was committed for its own sake as some kind of psychical preparation for an escalation of violence on the TV screen [think of the amount of violence perpeterated these days on TV], the collective habituation to which is capable of opening deeper portals in the art of (collective) mind control (I am also thinking of Cronenberg's Videodrome, of course). I don't know, just a thought.

This is essentially correct.

The assassination of JFK was a regicide, and crafted with the archetypal resonance appropriate for such an event.

It was a ritual slaughter, deliberately conducted in a public space.

It was designed to shock and traumatize the collective psyche.

I note that, through the eventual release of the "Zapruder film", the world was allowed to see the head of a President explode.

However, we are not allowed to see "Osama Bin Laden" (or some proxy) riddled with bullets.