Tag Archive for Jean Davison

FLASH CANCELLED: What one of the last JFK files will tell us about Oswald

March 26, 2018 Assassination 9 comments
FBI memo

A less redacted FBI on Oswald

In response to my post, “FBI wide shut”, a faithful reader points out there is a “minimally redacted” version of a key FBI memo about accused assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Read more

The hazards of running a JFK joint in the era of Trump

September 17, 2016 Assassination, News 21 comments

Two JFK Facts commenters have recently criticized me personally, and I feel the need to respond. I know an editor should have a thick skin but a season of succesful conspiracy theorizing has opened up the real possibility that U.S. nuclear codes will soon be delivered into the hands of a racist buffoon. I’m feeling a little touchy.

So let me dispatch with these theories and theorists.

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Comment of the week

November 4, 2015 Assassination 53 comments
By Jean Davison  – October 28

Leslie (Oct. 24),

Your Dallek quote had only one statement from JFK himself: “How could I have been so stupid as to let them proceed?” Not “Dulles betrayed me” — that’s an interpretation, just as it’s an interpretation (opinion) that it was JFK’s “decorum” that led him to praise Dulles highly and refer to him as a friend. IOW, JFK didn’t mean what he said about Dulles, in your view.

Personally I like direct quotes, not interpretations. Arthur Schlesinger’s book on RFK says this:

“Allen Dulles handled himself awfully well, with a great deal of dignity,” Robert Kennedy said of the period after the Bay of Pigs, “and never tried to shift the blame. The President was very fond of him, as I was.”

— Robert Kennedy and His Times, p. 459

Editor’s note – A new comment of the week will be featured each Wednesday.

 

Fact check: Did Richard Nixon say the Warren Commission report was a ‘hoax?’

February 19, 2015 Assassination, Fact Check, Question 114 comments

No. Jean Davison sets the record straight on this Internet legend. Read more

A plausible explanation of Life’s Zapruder film fail

May 22, 2013 Assassination, Review 5 comments

In reponse to a poignant HuffPo piece, Jean Davison says the late Paul Mandel of Life magazine was wrong, but not necessarily lying, when he mistated some facts about JFK’s assassination.   Read more

Fact Check: Were Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s comments about JFK evidence accurate?

January 15, 2013 Assassination, News, Question 28 comments

RFK Jr.’s claims

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comments that his father did not believe that a “lone-gunman” killed his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, have now been covered by all four television networks (CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC), and gone viral on the internet. The remarks marked the first time a Kennedy family member has publicly questioned the official theory that JFK was killed by a lone gunman.

Were RFK Jr.’s remarks factually accurate?  Read more