Thomas Powers Reviews "Marina and Lee" and "The Oswald File"
Updated: 12 hours ago
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It is not just easy, but almost irresistible, to make fun of the Kennedy assassination skeptics, with their Oswald doubles and triples, the ectoplasmic gunmen on the grassy knoll, the phantom C.I.A. agents hovering over Oswald's shoulder, the logical proof that Oswald, the so-so Marine sharpshooter, could not have fired the fatal shots. They remind me of those arguments that Marlowe or Bacon must have written "Hamlet," for no better reason, when you got down to it, than that writing "Hamlet" must have been beyond a bumpkin of no breeding from Stratford-on-Avon. But conspiracy-spinning isn't amusing, because it isn't a game. Doubt has become the last frontier of the American dissidents the point they will not yield. Once upon a time, they believed America might transcend racism, poverty, injustice and war; now they are hunting villains among the ectoplasm. If that strikes you as funny, well . . . it doesn't me.
Powers takes apart Michael Eddowes' book, The Oswald File. Eddowes was the writer who was convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald had been replaced and that an imposter was in his grave. Oswald's body was exhumed and his theory was found to be ridiculous -- the body was indeed that of Oswald's.
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Marina Oswald
Perhaps but he beat his wife.
The FBI bugged Marina's phone after the assassination, and here are the highlights.
Marina was interested in any development that would absolve her former husband of Kennedy's murder "for the sake of the kids."
Morley forgets to ask Marina the important questions.
Fletcher Prouty writes that Marina Oswald might have been involved.
Garrison writes to Marina Oswald.
Here is a memo written to Jim Garrison by Roger Craig.
Marina Oswald was fearful of Garrison's subpoena.
