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How the stupid JFK conspiracy debate misleads us

The estimable Andrew Sullivan has weighed in on the JFK conspiracy question. He claims Oswald Killed Kennedy, Period. So has Slate’s Fred Kaplan. He argues that even the best JFK conspiracy theories are bunk.

Let me say I think Sullivan and Kaplan are among the very best online journalists we have. I’m glad to say I count them as friendly acquaintances. I’m sorry to say I also think they have fallen victim of JFK denialism: the very Washington impulse to dismiss troubling evidence in the JFK story. …

Robert Dallek, denial, and JFK assassination story

JFK and Curtis LeMay
JFK and Air Force General Curtis LeMay. (Associate Press)

 

In an intriguing new piece for the Atlantic, “JFK v. the    Military,” historian Robert Dallek picks up on one of the  most important JFK revelations to emerge since Oliver  Stone’s “JFK.”

But Dallek also avoids its implications. And therein lies a tale of how historians — and the general public — think about JFK’s assassination 50 years later. …

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