Seven of the eight books Weisberg published after Whitewash were about the Kennedy assassination. His first book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report (1965), was the first critical study of the government's official version of what happened in Dallas on Nov. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the Kennedy and King assassinations. Review: 'Station Eleven' by Emily St.Weisberg, an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, U.S. But he left behind some interesting stories. Howard Hunt died in 2007, so there’s no way to get his opinion on things. Ayanna Pressley’s torn-out panic buttons, why folks are pushing off-the-wall conspiracy theories - that may lead to some dark places. There are many loose ends and unexplained events - Rep. I don’t know what we’ll find out about January 6. ” ‘I’m better than anybody because I’m white, Protestant and went to Brown, and since I’m in the CIA, I can do anything I want.’ “ “He was a complete self-centered WASP who saw himself as this blue blood from upstate New York,” says his son in the Rolling Stone article. And Hunt himself was the kind of guy who didn’t flinch about such things. Gordon Liddy about their idea of smearing LSD on muckraker Jack Anderson’s steering wheel? I can see that. Hunt very well could have been one of the “three tramps” in Dallas that day (many sources say otherwise), but he also fingers Lyndon Johnson as one of the conspirators, and having read the most recent volume in Robert Caro’s LBJ biography, I don’t buy that.īut as part of the CIA? Allen Dulles‘ CIA? The place that tried to get Fidel Castro’s cigars to explode? Which had an operative who met with Hunt and G. I’m not going to get into the details of Hunt’s confession - that’s why I’m linking to Erik Hedegaard’s story. On the other hand, it’s always seemed odd that an eccentric figure named Gavrilo Princip killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and helped kick off World War I when the archduke’s car, having avoided a thrown grenade not long before, flukily went past him as he was waiting near a delicatessen. Surely he must have been connected to something - the Mob, the CIA, Texas oilmen, maybe the whole racket. It’s always seemed a little odd that an eccentric figure named Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, killed JFK on November 22, 1963. Now, I’m an agnostic on the Kennedy assassination. The last, from a 2007 story in Rolling Stone, is at the center of my Sunday read. He wrote dozens of spy novels, some highly praised. He’d helped bring down the government of Guatemala in 1954. Hunt had a history well before Watergate.
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