True sponsors:Texan extremists & Military Industrial compex vs eastern establishment

[Seamus Coogan]

This is what Donald Gibson thought of the Oglesby book.
"According to Oglesby JFK was killed by a rightist conspiracy formed out of Anti-Castro Cuban exiles, the syndicate and a Cowboy Oligarchy supported by renegade CIA and FBI agents. The Cowboys were killing a Yankee President. Oglesby defined Yankee as Wall St., the CFR and Ivy League. Among the leading Yankees according to Oglesby were David Rockefeller and the Dulles brothers. This is a ludicrous idea. It is probably worse than that."
Donald Gibson, Assassination cover up, page 232

So i insist on my Global Power Corporation explanation given previously.

Its a shame Gibson had to say that.

Ogelsby was writing at a point in time in the 1970's when there was a lot of confusion about what was actually going on. He didn't have the luxury of the wealth of information available to him that Gibson had, to the best of my knowledge he moved away from JFK related stuff in the mid 90's anyhow.

Furthermore, Ogelsby was putting across (more or less) a philosophical treatise at the time and for my money Ogelsbys punt wasn't a bad one. In the sense he shows the differing factions residing within the United States power structure. Where Gibson (a researcher I greatly admire I might add and his book is excellent) I feel goes slightly overboard (and I agree that it was elements of the Eastern Establishment who were up to their neck in all this) is that its a bit dangerous I feel to put them all in agreement or having some sort of knowledge. I also get a little worried about this CFR sort of thing in particularly if people like Alex Jones start hammering it.

It was a group within these groups that had the say.

To his credit Ogelsby was always deeply critical of the 'Mob' line and one of the few at the time writing about it, indeed he predicted the direction the HSCA would go quite before any body else did. He also evolved his thoughts over the years and from what I have read he doesn't let the Dulles's off the hook in the slightest. Thus for Gibson too take a swipe at an HSCA era book that never pretended to be authoritative is a little obtuse.

Trust me there's kooks and cranks out there! Hell I've written at length about them but Ogelsby is certainly not one. Indeed he's one of the most rational and thoughtful people on the subject. Hence my quote at the bottom of the page. It's also interesting to note (now I maybe incorrect here) that I think Webster Tarpley (okay he's pretty cranky at times) but whose work on Bush Snr was a clever study free of BS and Jim Hougan found Ogelsby's book quite insightful in some cases.

When I get the time I'll try and find some links of his.