[lbo-talk] Churchill update: Thomas Brown can cheer

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Fri Mar 25 10:44:36 PST 2005


Doug Henwood

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Thomas Brown, a professor of sociology at Lamar University, in Texas, has argued that Mr. Churchill has falsely asserted that the U.S. Army knowingly distributed smallpox-infested blankets to Mexican Indians in 1837. Mr. Brown has written: "One must reluctantly conclude that Mr. Churchill fabricated the most crucial details of his genocide story."

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CB: If I can get a clarification, is Thomas Brown claiming that the U.S. Army distributed smallpox-infested blankets to Mexican Indians, but that the U.S. Army didn't know they were smallpox-infested ? Or is Brown saying the U.S. Army just did not in fact distribute smallpox-infested blankets to Mexican Indians at all ?



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