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What Cass Sunstein and the New Yorker get wrong about conspiracy theories

Jefferson Morley September 19, 2016

Ezra Klein and Cass Sunstein have some sensible things to say about the disturbing prevalence and power of conspiracy theories in this Vox video, especially about the toxic combination of conspiracy theories, ignorance, and extremism. So does the New Yorker. But these opinion-makers are wrong–or rather, underinformed–about the JFK story. …

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

Jefferson Morley September 17, 2016

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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Thomas Mallon asks, did ‘the climate of hate’ kill JFK?

Jefferson Morley January 13, 2016

‘Communism killed Kennedy’ remains one of the few defensible statements that the John Birch Society ever issued.

Source: The John Birch Society’s Lasting Influence – The New Yorker

The theory that one man alone killed President Kennedy has a tenacious hold on a respectable minority of JFK writers, including novelist Thomas Mallon, writing in the current New Yorker. …

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When the Cold War made Georgetown hot

Jefferson Morley November 7, 2014

“… one of the most zealous of the anti-Communist crusaders who turned the agency into an enormous, squid-like meddler in global affairs.”

via Luke Menand in the New Yorker: “When the Cold War Made Georgetown Hot.”

POLITICO is the latest to pick up on JFK Facts story

Jefferson Morley October 13, 2014

POLITICO has picked up on a story that I first reported on JFK Facts in May 2013.

In a Magazine story headlined, “Was RFK a JFK Conspiracy Theorist?” (Spoiler alert: Yes), former New York Times reporter Phil Shenon writes: …

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New Yorker writer on the official JFK story: ‘It beggars belief’

Jefferson Morley December 17, 2013

Who says journalists don’t get the JFK story?

Last month, John Cassidy, a staff writer for the New Yorker, broke ranks with his colleagues to explain why he doesn’t buy the official lone gunman theory of JFK’s death.

from “A Word In Favor of J.F.K. Conspiracy Theories“.

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Bowing to CIA, National Archives won’t review secret JFK records

Jefferson Morley December 3, 2013

When David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, solicited comment on U.S. declassification policy on Monday, he failed to mention that the Archives has already decided that the release of ancient secret U.S. government records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is not a priority.

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Summers’ question for the New Yorker

Jefferson Morley November 12, 2013

Anthony Summers, author of a new edition of his JFK book, “Not In Your Lifetime,” has a letter in the current issue of the New Yorker, responding to critic Adam Gopnik’s recent JFK essay. Summers questions the magazine’s faith in the lone gunman theory, firmly but politely, while dismissing far-fetched conspiracy theories that only confuse people.

Summers closes with a reasonable question;

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Eustace Tilley’s JFK assassination theory

Jefferson Morley October 29, 2013

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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