Gail Raven’s timeless story about her admiring friend Jack Ruby stays in it perennial spot at #1, followed by a discussion of former White House information czar Cass Sunstein and the state of the case.
1) Ex-flame says Jack Ruby ‘had no choice’ but to kill Oswald (March 21, 2013)
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From Eric Schlosser, The Truths Behind ‘Dr. Strangelove’ in The New Yorker.
“Although ‘Strangelove’ was clearly a farce, with the comedian Peter Sellers playing three roles, it was criticized for being implausible. An expert at the Institute for Strategic Studies called the events in the film ‘impossible on a dozen counts.’ ….The first casualty of every war is the truth — and the Cold War was no exception to that dictum. Half a century after [Director Stanley] Kubrick’s mad general, Jack D. Ripper, launched a nuclear strike on the Soviets to defend the purity of ‘our precious bodily fluids’ from Communist subversion, we now know that American officers did indeed have the ability to start a Third World War on their own.”
Secrecy spared us all that terrifying knowledge. Are you grateful?
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the secrecy systemRead More »
The assassination of President Kennedy was, among other things, a seminal event in the history of mediated imagery.
From the moment Abraham Zapruder captured the gunfire that killed the president to Olvier Stone’s 1991 hit “JFK”, to the present when Hollywood still seek to explore, exploit, and explain November 22, 1963, projected film has been a key–perhaps the key–to the way we visualize and understand JFK’s death. …
At JFK: The Continuing Inquiry Chris Gallop presents a steady stream of links to interesting JFK news and, while I can’t vouch for everything that appears, there seems to be low tolerance for bad information.
Between now and the 50th anniversary of the Warren Report in September 2014, we need more such social media coverage of JFK assassination..
“On August 30, 1963, the New York Times ran a story about a then-upcoming story in the Superman comic book in which J.F.K. enlisted the aid of the Man of Steel to help promote physical fitness.”
The story is impossibly complicated, inevitably sad, and illustrative of JFK’s unique impact on American popular culture.
From Adam Gopnik’s, The Assassination of J.F.K., Fifty Years Later in The New Yorker.
“The notion that the Cold War national-security state, which Eisenhower warned against, might have decided to kill the President is not as difficult to credit as one wishes. There were C.I.A. operatives prepared to kill foreign leaders, some of them previously friendly, for acts they didn’t like, and to recruit gangsters to do it, and generals who were eager to invade Cuba even at the risk of nuclear war, and who resented Kennedy for restraining them.”
Gopnik continues:
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Here’s the 21st century way to get the JFK assassination story — via an iPhone app, now available at the iTunes App Store for just 99 cents.
Developed by Colorado-based developer Marlene Zenker, the app offers “a wealth of facts and resources to start your own research.”
Zenker says she hopes the app will “pass the torch to the younger generation who basically know nothing about [JFK’s assassination] except that the government was probably involved.”
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The five most viewed pages on JFK Facts over the past year represent a cross-section of what this site is about: timely news, reliable sources, and authoritative analysis.
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From Ian Couch in The New Yorker.
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More grief for my inclusion of Professor John McAdams’s website on my list of best JFK Web sites.
“Case Closed on Jefferson Morley,” says Len Osanic. That epitaph suggested with Posnerian certainty (and credibility) that I am somehow unreliable as a source of information about the JFK story. Then Professor Jim Fetzer fingered me on Facebook as a shifty character, which did not overly concern me. He’s expert at those sorts of things and entitled to his opinions.
But now comes Lisa Pease, a writer who has added to my understanding of the CIA, to read me the Riot Act about McAdams. I respect Lisa for her wisdom and passion, so I listened carefully.
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I’ve been taking heat for my inclusion of Professor John McAdams website on this site’s list of “Best JFK websites.” So I’ve been thinking carefully about what my critics have to say.
One commenter, A Wendt, said McAdams’ site is “quite masterful’ in a perverse way, and I couldn’t agree more. …
With the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination barely three months away, the New York Times appears to have solved one lingering question: the provenance of a curious gravestone that appeared next to Lee Harvey Oswald’s final resting place in Ft. Worth’s Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery about 15 years ago.
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Here come snapshots from Tom Hanks’s upcoming JFK flick, courtesy of the Hollywood blog, Rope of Silicon.
Among the star-studded cast, Paul Giamatti plays Abraham Zapruder, the Dallas dressmaker who filmed the fatal motorcade. It sure looks like the movie will replicate the look of 1963 with the panache of “Mad Men.”
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I’ve never seen a photo compilation of the November 22, 1963, motorcade so skillfully edited as this LiveLeak video.
The extended evocation of panic after the gunfire is especially powerful. The number of people rushing up to the stockade fence atop the grassy knoll is always impressive and, to my mind, hard to scant. I had never seen the footage of deputy press secretary Malcolm Kilduff pointing at his temple — as if shot from the front — and saying “a bullet right through the head.”
In the cinema of JFK’s assassination, the new TV documentary “Letters to Jackie” promises pure escapism.
Featuring Hollywood actors reading from the letters sent to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy after the death of her husband, the movie offers an escape from the interminable loop of an unsolved true crime story. As the trailer (produced by Steven Speilberg) indicates, “Letters to Jackie” frames November 22, 1963, as a family tragedy — a personal, not political, event.
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