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History Will Not Absolve Us : Orwellian Control, Public Denial, & the Murder of President Kennedy

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This little-known book contains the distilled thought of a group of prominent and well-respected lawyers and psychiatrists, who were convinced as early as 1963 that Kennedy was shot by the CIA (at the behest of the military-industrial complex) for his increasingly "soft" stance toward Cuba and the USSR. The book contains facts that are both obvious and sinister, and lends credence to Schotz's assertion that almost everyone in America today "believes" in some conspiracy to kill Kennedy, but doesn't really want to know. The book's only weakness is its occasionally overly-complex language; this is not unexpected, given the profession of its authors. No, this is NOT the ravings of another internet-conspiracy-theorist! Read it and you'll agree.

Presents a cohesive theory of the assassination, one that implies that the individuals investigated by Jim Garrisson were only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

The thrust of History Will Not Absolve Us though is not so much sifting through the considerable evidence in a careful, rational manner, but suggesting that some rather special psychological problems exist for ignoring or willfully dismissing what the slightest logical engagement of the mind would show to be the truth. The author is especially interested in why key figures on the political left, notably the editors of The Nation and well known academics/writers such as Noam Chomsky and I.F. Stone, represented that the Warren Commission was authoritative and worthy of acceptance: "It is patently obvious that pigs flew out of that man's butt... (and anyone who disagrees is a conspiracy nut)."

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Brian Wright
Copyright 2008

Blockbuster book. Buy it - it is worth every penny.

Anything that has Vincent Salandria and Martin Schotz in it commenting on the 1963 Coup d'Etat and its cover up is a must read.

Basically, these are brilliant left wing intellectuals who walk you through the JFK assassination and its cover up. They focus like a laser on the role of the left wing such as the Nation Magazine and I.F. Stone in particular in the cover up of JFK's murder.

The Nation magazine especially comes off looking very bad and very coopted by by CIA.

There are resources in this fabulous fine boutique book that are no where else in JFK research - such as the text of Fidel Castro's speech on 11/23/63 in which he does a pretty good job of deconstructing the JFK assassination in real time.

It is pretty sad that Fidel Castro in 1963 was a better more accurate source on the realities of the entire American MSM for the next 48 years.

Buy this book!

another book for (people) and romantics who want to believe JFK was not the hardbitten, unreflective, Cold Warrior he was.