Stone then started picking up conspiracy material from Prouty, who primarily promoted the Birch line rather than a "left" critique, although it is hard to call the Garrison book a "left" critique.
Chip Berlet Senior Analyst Political Research Associates http://www.publiceye.org
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> From: Bob Feldman [mailto:bob_jan at xensei.com]
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> Subject: [lbo-talk] Stone, Sheridan Press & Garrison
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> From: "Chip Berlet"
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> ".Are you supporting the John Birch
> Society theory (picked up by Oliver Stone) that Kennedy was
> killed by a conspiracy of the military industrial complex and
> that Jack Ruby was part of the vast plot when he killed Oswald?"
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> REPLY: Didn't Oliver Stone first get the idea for the JFK
> movie after one of editors at William Schaap and Ellen Ray's
> left-wing Sheridan Press gave Stone a copy of Jim Garrison's
> book (which they had published) when Stone was visiting Cuba?
> Mark Lane told an interviewer at the anti-war East Village
> Other newspaper in 1969 that "Robert Kennedy sent two
> emissaries to see Jim Garrison at two different times after
> he had declared for the presidency...Robert Kennedy wanted
> Jim to know that if he were elected President, he would
> apprehend and prosecute those responsible for killing his
> brother. He also wanted Jim to know that he supported the
> New Orleans investigation." Granma also reported in its
> September 13, 1995 issue that "General Fabian Escalante,
> director for the Cuban Center for National Security Studies
> stated that `according to Lopez Estrada, an expert on the
> CIA, the Dallas assassination must have been committed by
> approximately 30 persons.'" Actually, the first articles
> which questioned the validity of the Warren Commission theory
> on the JFK assassination appeared in the European and U.S.
> left-wing press.
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> bob
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