My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Joseph McBride]

Hi,
My first post here. I am a 50 year old man from Norway, and I have been studying the JFK-case quite a lot for the last 3 years. This book looks interesting to me. Is there any chance it will be published as an ebook as well as paper edition?

The ebook edition of INTO THE NIGHTMARE is coming soon. Thanks for your interest.

[Jim Hackett II]

Old fashioned fellow that I am, I'll turn paper pages most likely.

Very intriguing.
Jim

[Charles Drago]

A question haunting contemporary Fascists:

Are e-book readers combustible, or is "Kindle" not meant to be taken literally?

[Bernice Moore]

Joseph; Pleasant surprise, I received a notice today, that a copy of your book is in the mail, much earlier than previously thought, good news...b:wavey:

[Joseph McBride]

Joseph; Pleasant surprise, I received a notice today, that a copy of your book is in the mail, much earlier than previously thought, good news...b:wavey:

Thanks for letting me know, Bernice. Yes, I hear the copies of INTO THE NIGHTMARE are getting around pretty quickly when ordered through Amazon. I am glad you will be reading it.

[Joseph McBride]

The first review of my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE: MY SEARCH FOR THE KILLERS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
AND OFFICER J. D. TIPPIT is now out, a thoughtful and gratifying piece by Joseph Green on OpEdNews:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/A-Perso...6-953.html

[Joseph McBride]

A new interview on my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE by Ray Kelly of Masslive.com and the Springfield (MA) Republican:

http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/in...cart_river

[Anthony Thorne]

I liked this choice of quote from the (very good) OpEdNews review:

"The effect is a pervasive atmosphere of unreality surrounding postwar American history, a willed decision by most citizens (even some who know better) to live in a fantasy America rather than the far messier place we actually inhabit. The fact that none of the official explanations for all the major events in modern American history -- the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Vietnam War; Watergate; Iran/contra; the Gulf War; 9/11; and the Iraq War -- makes sense when the evidence is examined with care should be enough to make even the most trusting American citizen realize he or she is being duped by our own government. "

Absolutely spot on.

As an aside, there's a review on the Amazon page, but it's pretty nondescript. I'd recommend DPF members shoot over to Amazon and add their thoughts there if and when they read Joseph's book.

[Charles Drago]

A new interview on my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE by Ray Kelly of Masslive.com and the Springfield (MA) Republican:

http://www.masslive.com/entertainment/in...cart_river

Joseph,

This interview closes with the following comment made by you:

"The beneficiaries were Johnson and the military-industrial complex that owned him and which he helped enrich with the Vietnam War. Through my extensive research, I shed new light on the murderous political context of the case, including the hatred against Kennedy by Texas right-wing extremists, and I demonstrate that Officer Tippit was one of the key ground-level functionaries in that high-level plot."

With all due respect -- and a great deal indeed is due -- I find that your conclusions expressed above reveal A) the absence in your work of a viable conspiracy model upon which research of the complexity and significance you proffer must be stretched if it is to assume a form conducive to the formulation of deep political insight, and B) a fatally narrow identification of the "beneficiaries" of the assassination.

May I humbly suggest that you think about the following as presented most recently (post 169) at:

https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/sho...#post71393


In order to save inordinate amounts of time and angst, we should agree on some basic definitions. When I use the terms Sponsors, False Sponsors, Facilitators, and Mechanics, I do so within the context of what has come to be known as the Evica-Drago Model for the JFK conspiracy:

SPONSORS -- Those with the authority and motive to sanction the assassination and the connections to engage facilitating agents and systems. Among them in my opinion: the most powerful supra-national entities who were -- and are -- above Cold War and Clash of Civilization cosmetic differences.

FALSE SPONSORS -- Selected primarily from involved high-level FACILITATORS and otherwise uninvolved entities who logically might have come under suspicion. Among them in my opinion: LBJ, the CIA, the Mob, anti-Castro Cubans, Big Business, Big Oil, Castro, Khrushchev, etc.

FACILITATORS -- From the "princes" who directly and/or through buffers routinely interacted with and carried out the agendas of the SPONSORS and who created the plot in all its complexities, through high-level members of facilitating organizations, to mid- to low-level functionaries who performed the heavy lifting. Among them in my opinion: LBJ, James Angleton, Edward Lansdale, David Atlee Phillips, David Sanchez Morales, Lucien Conein, Gerald Patrick Hemming, "William Bishop" and other CIA officers and agents, Santos Trafficante, Johnny Rosselli, Jimmy Hoffa, certain Secret Service, FBI and military intelligence officers and agents, individuals intimately linked to Big Business and Big Oil, certain Dallas elected officials and members of the DPD, certain members of the print and broadcast media, certain heads of state, etc. etc. etc.

MECHANICS -- The gunmen and support personnel on-site who carried out the attack and escape-evade procedures. Among them in my opinion: possibly a team from Pakse Base, former Wermacht/SS sniper(s), etc. Think the most skilled hunters of humans on the planet.


Within this model, LBJ is appropriately placed within the "False Sponsors" and "Facilitators" groupings.

Tippit, as I believe you realize, is justly considered to be a low level "Facilitator."

You have every right to focus on the model the full and considerable force of your critical faculties and to ask after the identities of the "Sponsors" as I perceive them.

In re the latter: The best I can do at this point in time is to quote from my Introduction to George Michael's A Certain Arrogance:

Haunting the pages of A Certain Arrogance in the company of the shades of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald is a revelation so menacing in its assault on convention as to provoke a reflexive shielding of our eyes from its searing light. Yet the author cannot spare us the psychic pain that is the unavoidable side effect of his scholarship, insofar as such suffering remains the sine qua non for the eradication of our common malady and the return to robust good health.

Within the nucleus of the disease, Professor Evica has discovered "a treasonous cabal of hard-line American and Soviet intelligence agents whose masters were above Cold War differences."

In light of this revelation, we are left with no choice but to embrace a new paradigm of world power.

Professor Evica reveals the universally accepted vertical, East v. West Cold War confrontation to have been a sophistic construct, illusory in terms of its advertised raison d'etre, all too real in its bloody consequences, created by the powerful yet outnumbered manipulators of perception to protect what they recognized to be an all too fragile reality. The true division of power, he teaches us, then as now is drawn on a horizontal axis.

Envision the earth so bifurcated, with the line drawn not at the equator, but rather at the Arctic Circle. Above the line are the powerful few the "Haves." Below the line, in vastly superior numbers, are the powerless many the "Have-Nots."


I hope that you will find the time to respond.

Best,

Charles

[Joseph McBride]

I liked this choice of quote from the (very good) OpEdNews review:

"The effect is a pervasive atmosphere of unreality surrounding postwar American history, a willed decision by most citizens (even some who know better) to live in a fantasy America rather than the far messier place we actually inhabit. The fact that none of the official explanations for all the major events in modern American history -- the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.; the Vietnam War; Watergate; Iran/contra; the Gulf War; 9/11; and the Iraq War -- makes sense when the evidence is examined with care should be enough to make even the most trusting American citizen realize he or she is being duped by our own government. "

Absolutely spot on.

As an aside, there's a review on the Amazon page, but it's pretty nondescript. I'd recommend DPF members shoot over to Amazon and add their thoughts there if and when they read Joseph's book.

Thank you for all these kind words, Anthony. I appreciate it.