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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.


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