So, Joe, your answer is "No" since the quote is just another complaint about how the "official version" is flawed. It is not a full-blown theory of who killed Kennedy. Thanks for being so clear and honest.
Now then, who was it that first promoted a full-blown theory of who killed Kennedy and where did it appear?
And just to cut to the chase, since so many people are tired of this, the answer is that the people on the "left" who blamed the CIA (such as Mark Lane) often ended up in bed with the people on the right who blamed the CIA, and they slipped off the sheets into the tarpit of anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, which were a subtext of the McCarthy allegations about the CIA, the State Department, and Big Business "elites." And these, in turn, are echoes of the basic set of anti-elite conspiracy theories rooted in the attack on the enlightenment and the anti-clerical disestablishment views of the Illuminati and Freemasons in the 1790s--which in turn were converted into the hoax document The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in the early 1900s.
This is why I say these anti-elite conspiracy theories are objectively right-wing junk.
And for the record, I researched a chapter in an assassination book in the 1970s, The Assassination Please Almanac. My task was to retrace the Warren Commission research at the Library of Congress and show how it was seriously flawed both on methodological and analytical grounds when it claimed that most political assassinations in the U.S. had not been tied to a political struggle and were carried out by lone gunman. They were only able to do this be not seeing the political basis of assassinations during Reconstruction and Redemption after the Civil War. So I will argue that I have done more substantive research and more actually published research on political assassinations than you have.
I have always welcomed and called for the full release of government documents concerning all the major political assassinations in the 1960s. I even hosted Phil Ochs and A.J. Weberman in my apartment while they attended the national Yippie conference on "Who stole Kennedy's brain?" This included the memorable Kennedy Brain Drain demonstration at the National Archives. A.J. stayed at my apartment in Washington, D.C. for many weeks while researching and writing his (lurid, exotic, unbelievable) book on the Kennedy assassination (we are still friends despite my critique of his book).
All of this is easy to establish because it is all in print in various articles and book chapter I have written. So I have to say either you are a lousy researcher, or you just like to demonize, insult, and misrepresent the facts about people who disagree with you.
Confusionist? Bah! Humbug!
Chip Berlet Senior Analyst Political Research Associates http://www.publiceye.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joseph Wanzala [mailto:jwanzala at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 10:55 AM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Bertrand Russell on JFK
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> 16 Questions on the Assassination
>
> By Bertrand Russell
>
> http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/The_critics/Russell/Sixteen_quest
> ions_Russell.html
> The Minority of One, 6 September 1964, pp. 6-8.
>
> The official version of the assassination of President
> Kennedy has been so riddled with contradictions that it is
> been abandoned and rewritten no less than three times.
> Blatant fabrications have received very widespread coverage
> by the mass media, but denials of these same lies have gone
> unpublished. Photographs, evidence and affidavits have been
> doctored out of recognition. Some of the most important
> aspects of the case against Lee Harvey Oswald have been
> completely blacked out. Meanwhile, the F.B.I., the police and
> the Secret Service have tried to silence key witnesses or
> instruct them what evidence to give. Others involved have
> disappeared or died in extraordinary circumstances.....
>
> ....In Britain, I invited people eminent in the intellectual
> life of the country to join a "Who Killed Kennedy Committee,"
> which at the moment of writing consists of the following
> people: Mr. John Arden, playwright; Mrs. Carolyn Wedgwood
> Benn, from Cincinnati, wife of Anthony Wedgwood Benn, M.P.;
> Lord Boyd-Orr, former director-general of the U.N. Food and
> Agricultural Organization and a Nobel Peace Prize winner; Mr.
> John Calder, publisher; Professor William Empsom, Professor
> of English Literature at Sheffield University; Mr. Victor
> Golancz, publisher; Mr. Michael Foot, Member of Parliament;
> Mr. Kingsley Martin, former editor of the New Statesman; Sir
> Compton Mackenzie, writer; Mr. J.B. Priestley, playwright and
> author; Sir Herbert Read, art critic; Mr. Tony Richardson,
> film director; Dr. Mervyn Stockwood, Bishop of Southwark;
> Professor Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern
> History at Oxford University; Mr. Kenneth Tynan, Literary
> Manager of the National Theatre; and myself.
> We view the problem with the utmost seriousness. U.S.
> Embassies have long ago reported to Washington world-wide
> disbelief in the official charges against Oswald, but this
> has scarcely been reflected by the American press. No U.S.
> television program or mass circulation newspaper has
> challenged the permanent basis of all the allegations-that
> Oswald was the assassin, and that he acted alone. It is a
> task which is left to the American people.
>
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