{"id":1319,"date":"2013-01-26T21:37:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T03:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1319"},"modified":"2015-05-31T12:46:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T18:46:19","slug":"jfk-and-the-unspeakable-why-he-died-and-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1319","title":{"rendered":"JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

by James W. Douglass, 2010, Touchstone<\/p>\n

I really don’t know what to say regarding this book.\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. Douglass has done a great deal of thinking and research on the Kennedy assassination and is convinced that the CIA orchestrated it because they felt Kennedy was moving toward disarmament and the end of the Cold War.\u00c2\u00a0 He frames his argument\u00c2\u00a0around some writings and predictions of Thomas Merton, a prominent Catholic priest and writer.<\/p>\n

Douglass presents a great deal of information that he attempts to tie together as proof of his theory.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I do not profess to be very knowledgeable about the assassination or the subsequent investigations, so I am not able to refute his facts or theory.\u00c2\u00a0 I finished the book with a great deal of skepticism, however, primarily because the author was so intent on presenting facts that supported his theory.\u00c2\u00a0 Many of the supposed witnesses that he cites are mental cases, heroin addicts, or just other somewhat shady persons.\u00c2\u00a0 In addition, some of the testimony is a bit hard to believe (such as the story of a C-54 cargo plane that left Andrews Air Force base in Maryland, flew to Dallas, landed in the Trinity River basin, and picked up an alleged Oswald double after the assassination.\u00c2\u00a0 Another story is about an alleged plan to assassinate Kennedy in Chicago in early November.\u00c2\u00a0 Only the cancellation of this trip apparently saved Kennedy at that time.\u00c2\u00a0 The question that popped into my mind was whether the President would have been travelling in an open car on an expressway in Chicago in November?<\/p>\n

In addition to my doubts about some of the information presented, the organization of the book was an absolute mess.\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than constructing the argument chronologically, the author randomly jumps around, making the entire story much harder to follow than it needed to be.\u00c2\u00a0 He also repeats information time after time, supposedly to prove his point.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of information in this book that was new to me and, for that reason, it was worthwhile.\u00c2\u00a0 It would have been a much better book if it had been written from a more objective point of view and if it had been organized much better.\"2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by James W. Douglass, 2010, Touchstone I really don’t know what to say regarding this book.\u00c2\u00a0 Mr. Douglass has done a great deal of thinking and research on the Kennedy assassination and is convinced that the CIA orchestrated it because …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,38],"class_list":["post-1319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-non-fiction","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}