-Caveat Lector- -----Original Message----- From: David Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.journalism,alt.journalism.students,alt.thebird Date: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 7:39 PM Subject: Dorothy Kilgallen and JFK >The point to be remembered in any assessment of her evolving skepticism is >that Dorothy [Kilgallen] was open-minded, accessible, and fearless. In this >regard, she was almost unique among heavyweight, establishment journalists >in the United States. What she was publishing has been made tepid by time, >but doubting the official version then verged on apostasy. > >The mindset of her colleague and friend Bob Considine was far more typical. >By March 6, only four months after the assassination and a half-year before >the release of the Warren Report, he denigrated the European press for >"still clutching to the long discredited notion that there was a dark >conspiracy involving JFK's death." He had apparently learned at some point >that Jack Ruby had had the opportunity to shoot Oswald on the day before he >actually did the crime. Using that datum as a kind of sealing wax, he >closed himself hermetically to any and all evidence that challenged the >lone-assassin theory. >---- >Of the handful of reporters who had the commitment, the clout, the >predisposition, and the intrepidity to go after what the government wanted >withheld, some were frightened. Thayer Waldo of the Fort Worth >Star-Telegram originally furnished to Mark Lane information that Officer >Tippitt, Jack Ruby, and Bernard Weissman (one of the signers of the >notorious black-bordered advertisement that ran in a Dallas newspaper on the >day of Kennedy's fateful visit, charging that the President had abrogated >the Monroe Doctrine and "sold out to Moscow") had met in Ruby's Carousel >Club eight days before the assassination. Waldo would not use the story >himself. Waldo also discovered that the Dallas chief of police had been >surprised by the course finally chosen for the President's motorcade and was >unable to fathom why the procession was instructed to take this more >vulnerable route. Nor did he use this story, though once again he made the >information available to Mark Lane. Thayer Waldo was not minimizing the >significance of his information. On the contrary, he told Lane that if he >published what he knew, "there would be real danger to him [Waldo]." >Dorothy eventually published what Waldo had uncovered but was afraid to run. > --Lee Israel, KILGALLEN, A BIOGRAPHY OF DOROTHY KILGALLEN (New York: >Delacorte Press, 1979) pp. 372-373 > >to be continued... > >"Open-minded, accessible, and fearless." What one of those adjectives >describes any prominent journalist in the United States today? Perhaps they >are just prudent. They have seen what happened to George Polk, Don >Hollenbeck, and Dorothy Kilgallen, and more recently to the less-prominent >Danny Casolaro. > >--------- >DC Dave >Author of "America's Dreyfus Affair, the Case of the Death of Vincent >Foster" >http://thebird.org/host/dcdave >news:alt.thebird > > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
