House Select Committee on Assassinations, summarizes the evidenceįlatly, stating that Allen Dulles, the head of the C.I.A.,Īuthorized payment of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a plotĪgainst Castro involving Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana. Government and the Mafia remain shocking: one document, prepared for the United States can actually flourish quite well with “Communists right The obsession with Castro and Cuba is, given that we now know that the There are strange historical pleasures in sorting through the records. Record from his time in the Marines, is curiously sourced to a Cuban (This last fact, known already from Oswald’s service Of embassy staffers Lyndon Johnson never entirely bought the WarrenĬommission’s conclusion that Oswald had acted alone Oswald was a good, While he was there had contacts with Russian intelligence in the person Of mania Lee Harvey Oswald went to Mexico City in the fall of 1963, probably in order to try and get to Cuba, and Edgar Hoover was obsessed with American CommunistsĪnd with Martin Luther King, Jr.,’s purported ties to them, to the point was enlisting gangsters in an effort to assassinateĬastro (with what depth of knowledge on the part of the Kennedy brothers He admitsīeing somewhat intoxicated at the time and said the man also was in anĪnything more notable that’s turned up simply echoes what we already
Overheard someone in a bar in New Orleans offering to bet a hundredĭollars that President Kennedy would not be alive in three weeks’ time.īut, the document reads, “He does not recall ever seeing the man beforeĪnd is not certain that he would recognize him if he did. And that, two weeks before the assassination, one Robert C. Possibility that Jack Ruby was identical to a Florida racketeer named Rubin. That, two days after the assassination, the F.B.I. Well presented) documents, though, mostly reveals just what oneĮxpected: rumors and scuttlebutt, with uncertain sourcing. It’s always possible that some smoking gun of a document will reveal Than the names and addresses of any mentioned person who is still Night the President tweeted, “I will be releasing ALL JFK files other But that decision raised more suspicions, so on Friday Services not to release some three hundred of the remaining three Inįact, at the last minute, Trump listened to requests from the intelligence Kennedy is being heralded as Donald Trump’s decision-though it was simply hisĭecision not to prevent their release, which had long been scheduled. Government files of all kinds relating to the assassination of John F. Simon's investigation places assassination art and images within a historical context-one that helps us understand what the assassination has meant to American culture.The release last Thursday of previously classified, or at least unseen, In his new Preface to this edition of Dangerous Knowledge, Art Simon discusses public fascination with celebrity deaths and recent assassination-related media-from documentaries to scholarly books to the scandalous video game JFK Reloaded-to show that the assassination continues to inspire writers, artists, and filmmakers.ĭangerous Knowledge examines the seminal works of art associated with the assassination, including Andy Warhol's silk screens, the underground films of Bruce Conner, and provocative Hollywood films like The Parallax View and JFK.
The event fueled conspiracy theories and repeated viewings of Zapruder's film as seemingly everyone in the world searched for motive and conclusive proof of a single gunman. Kennedy shocked the world and focused attention to the 8mm footage shot by Abraham Zapruder. Fifty years ago, the assassination of John F.
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