Fred Litwin: The pro-CIA Troll
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When troll Fred Litwin starts croaking, you know something significant has turned up that worries the anxious and isolated defenders of the lone gunman theory.
But what is revealing is that Morley now has a remarkable ability -- he can both honestly quote me and then distort the same quote in the same paragraph!
Check this out:
(Anyone that is except Fred Litwin. He writes of Lincoln, “Who really cares? She is entitled to her opinion, like anybody else. But she had no special knowledge of anything related to such a plot.” A rich phrase worth savoring. The woman had no special knowledge. The thinking of a woman who worked daily with JFK for 12 years has no more historical value for the JFK story than his own self-published insights. Does Litwin live on the wrong side of that fine line between blatant sexism and ordinary male cluelessness? Unproven. Is he a troll? Old news.)
Morley knows that my sentence about Lincoln's special knowledge is specific -- "she had no special knowledge of anything related to such a plot." (emphasis added)
I did not deny that Lincoln had some special knowledge related to her job. Yes, she knew when JFK drank coffee. She knew how his days were scheduled. She knew when he was mad or happy. She possessed all sorts of special knowledge. But, it was not related to any plot against JFK.
And Lincoln knew that. That is why she talks about conjecture:
It's interesting that Morley did not mention or uncover the 1994 letter that Lincoln wrote to Richard Duncan with her thoughts about the assassination. And the replies that Duncan received repeat exactly what I wrote in my article -- nobody found her "theories' worthwhile.
And then Morley makes an incredible leap:
Lincoln wrote that she wanted to address the two most frequent questions she had heard asked about JFK: his love life and his assassination. Blithe to moralists and armchair psychoanalysts, she condoned his prolific love life as “one of life’s pleasantries.” If we put aside the titillation factor (and Lincoln did), the Addenda shows us that she had access to the nuances of JFK’s hopes, doubt, fears, passions, suspicions, ambitions, and plans. She lived in his mental, emotional, and political universe. She inhabited his thoughts. The point is both obvious and subtle, which is to say, profound: She thought like JFK.
In his 2020 JFK assassination dirge, “Murder Most Foul,” Bob Dylan dared to put listeners inside the president’s mind on Nov. 22, 1963.
He said, “Wait a minute, boys, you know who I am?”
“Of course we do, we know who you are”
Then they blew off his head while he was still in the car
Like Dylan, Evelyn Lincoln puts us inside JFK’s mind on November 22. Her Addenda illuminates how President Kennedy would have analyzed his own assassination. No, it’s not a “smoking gun.” No, it’s not a popular conspiracy theory. No, it’s not legally admissible evidence. It’s more like common sense.
Lincoln "thought like JFK."
And from there, Morley writes that "Her Addenda illuminates how President Kennedy would have analyzed his own assassination."
So, now we know how JFK would have analyzed his own assassination.
Talk about a leap in logic.
And I should add, who really cares what Bob Dylan thought, or wrote, about the assassination.
My friend Gus Russo said that taking Dylan’s opinions about the assassination seriously would be like asking Yo-Yo Ma’s opinion of particle physics.
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