 Oswald Rising, 1988, oil on canvas, 66" X 47". When I lived in Dallas, "the city that killed Kennedy" AKA "the city of hate," I participated in a university gallery show coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the assassination. I made this painting for the show, whoops, sorry, to express my deep feelings about an event that changed America. It was reproduced in the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star Telegram and Art Papers. On the 40th anniversary I find it amazing that webloggers like Steve Gilliard still buy the "lone nut" theory (scroll down to "Conspiracy Theories" on 11/21/03). Even if you don't believe all the evidence pointing towards a second shooter on the Grassy Knoll, the idea that a sleazy mob wannabe like Jack Ruby would suddenly get an attack of morality and kill Oswald out of "revenge" just stretches credulity. I'm with Gore Vidal that the shooting of the President with his wife in the car, in full view of everyone, was "classic Palermo style"--that is, a mob hit. Help from crazy anti-Castro Cubans and rogue CIA agents shouldn't be ruled out either. Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK is valuable not for its theory--that the military industrial complex whacked Kennedy because he was going to end the Vietnam War--but rather for its careful laying out of the many reasons the lone gunman hypothesis makes no sense.
I've always been just a little too young (33) to get into Kennedy conspiracy theory stuff. I wish deep throat had just come forward and told us all who the second shooter was. See, there's way too much work involved keeping it all straight. I think he was killed by the same people who faked the moon landing because Kennedy was about to expose the truth. You can see why a show like the X-files was A) successful and B) eventually unfulfilling. Kris thinks the whole affair is best left unsolved - it exposed and exposes the f'd upedness of the government for the first time. I think she knows something ….
apathy or paranoia
J-- That's what They want you to think. Seriously, there's enough uncomplicated evidence of a conspiracy at this point to believe in that, without a Deep Throat to explain it all. What I don't like is Steve Gilliard saying "Americans have to have a conspiracy because they can't handle the idea of a pointless murder." We're grownups, I think we can handle it. Only that's not what this was. The Mob helped Kennedy get elected, Bobby "double crossed" them with zealous prosecutions, they capped his brother (with help), end of story. David Talbot's interview with former House Assassinations Committee investigator Robert Blakey sums this up nicely for lucky Salon subscribers today.
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Oswald Rising, 1988, oil on canvas, 66" X 47". When I lived in Dallas, "the city that killed Kennedy" AKA "the city of hate," I participated in a university gallery show coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the assassination. I made this painting for the show, whoops, sorry, to express my deep feelings about an event that changed America. It was reproduced in the Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star Telegram and Art Papers. On the 40th anniversary I find it amazing that webloggers like Steve Gilliard still buy the "lone nut" theory (scroll down to "Conspiracy Theories" on 11/21/03). Even if you don't believe all the evidence pointing towards a second shooter on the Grassy Knoll, the idea that a sleazy mob wannabe like Jack Ruby would suddenly get an attack of morality and kill Oswald out of "revenge" just stretches credulity. I'm with Gore Vidal that the shooting of the President with his wife in the car, in full view of everyone, was "classic Palermo style"--that is, a mob hit. Help from crazy anti-Castro Cubans and rogue CIA agents shouldn't be ruled out either. Oliver Stone's 1991 film JFK is valuable not for its theory--that the military industrial complex whacked Kennedy because he was going to end the Vietnam War--but rather for its careful laying out of the many reasons the lone gunman hypothesis makes no sense.
- tom moody 11-22-2003 7:09 pm
I've always been just a little too young (33) to get into Kennedy conspiracy theory stuff. I wish deep throat had just come forward and told us all who the second shooter was. See, there's way too much work involved keeping it all straight. I think he was killed by the same people who faked the moon landing because Kennedy was about to expose the truth. You can see why a show like the X-files was A) successful and B) eventually unfulfilling. Kris thinks the whole affair is best left unsolved - it exposed and exposes the f'd upedness of the government for the first time. I think she knows something ….
- Joester (guest) 11-22-2003 8:14 pm
apathy or paranoia
- dave 11-22-2003 8:37 pm
J-- That's what They want you to think. Seriously, there's enough uncomplicated evidence of a conspiracy at this point to believe in that, without a Deep Throat to explain it all. What I don't like is Steve Gilliard saying "Americans have to have a conspiracy because they can't handle the idea of a pointless murder." We're grownups, I think we can handle it. Only that's not what this was. The Mob helped Kennedy get elected, Bobby "double crossed" them with zealous prosecutions, they capped his brother (with help), end of story. David Talbot's interview with former House Assassinations Committee investigator Robert Blakey sums this up nicely for lucky Salon subscribers today.
- tom moody 11-22-2003 8:41 pm
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