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Bancroft Press in the MediA
Here's a letter we have sent to the editorial page
editors of the largest 236 daily newspapers in the United
States. It was not published in a single paper:
March 2, 1999
Dear Letters Editor:
How remarkable that in a media-dominated society where even
the smallest issues are subjected to intense debate, the chief
conclusions of an important new book about the fifth biggest
news story of the century (Newseum, February 22, 1999) have
seemingly been accepted without debate.
The news event? The assassination of President John F. Kennedy
in Dallas November 22, 1963.
The book's chief conclusions: That Lee Harvey Oswald committed
the assassination alone to advance the cause of Cuba and Castro.
And that the new President, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the former
president's chief advisor, Robert F. Kennedy, for different
reasons, determined that Oswald's chief motive was best kept
from the American public.
The book? Gus Russo's "Live by the Sword, the Secret
War Against Castro and the Death of JFK."
I write this letter on the eve of three critical anniversaries.
Almost 36 years to the day (March 31, 1963), Oswald persuaded
his wife to take a now-famous picture of him, standing with
rifle in one hand, and America's two most prominent Marxist
newspapers in the other. Almost 36 years to the day (April
10, 1963), Oswald attempted to assassinate Gen. Edwin Walker,
a notorious right-winger, then living in Dallas. Almost 37
years ago to the day, the U.S. launched the Bay of Pigs invasion,
a debacle that set in motion the "get-Castro" "kill
Kennedy" events that culminated in Dallas on November
22, 1963.
These facts are essential knowledge for citizens of a nation
still seriously considering the assassination of Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein.
Discussion of the underlying issues is clearly in the public
interest. And the issues are far too important to be neglected
the way they have been.
Sincerely,
Bruce L. Bortz
Baltimore, MD
Mr. Bortz's Bancroft Press published the book in November
1998. |