Now, earlier, certain dreamers in the CIA dreamed up the ridiculous scenario that is known as the Bay of Pigs invasion of Fidel Castro's Cuba. The CIA dreamers had hoped to trap the young President Kennedy into deciding to provide air cover for this ridiculous invasion. But President Kennedy did not act as they had hoped he would. As a result, the ridiculous invasion was a debacle. Nevertheless, President Kennedy took responsibility for the debacle because he had indeed signed off on the ridiculous plan. (The plan had started to be developed under former President Eisenhower.)
Douglass has thoroughly researched JFK's assassination. The notes in his book run from page 396 to page 495.
Because of the sheer complexity of the events involved, Douglass provides a chronology of events from 1961 to 1963 on pages xxi-xxxi. In chapter one, pages 1-54, he gives us an overview. But in each subsequent chapter he dives in and gives us really detailed accounts of events involving an enormous number of people. Fortunately, his book includes a good index.
CONCLUSION
To this day, the news media in the United States are dedicated to endorsing the official myth about Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly being the lone gunman involved in President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas on November 22, 1963. But the news media are characteristically superficial. That's why Americans should read books with depth such as Douglass's book and Janney's book.
To this day, the conservative noise machine in the United States is dedicated to denigrating President Kennedy and his presidency. Unfortunately, the Camelot myth that President Kennedy's young widow helped set in motion gives conservatives an easy target to fire at. Conservatives today align themselves with the national security state that Douglass refers to, because they have a vested interest in maintaining the Manichaean view of the Cold War, which they have extended now into the so-called war on terrorism.
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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
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