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May
14, 2003
Assassinating JFK, Again
Neocon
Media Strategy: Trash Kennedy; Hype Bush
By WAYNE MADSEN
Not content with gloating over the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy, the right wing and their neo-con
storm troopers are now out to once again assassinate the character
of our 35th President.
In his book about Kennedy titled "An
Unfinished Life," author Robert Dallek claims a 19-year-old
White House intern traveled with President Kennedy for the sole
purpose of providing him sexual gratification. Dallek hyped his
book on NBC's Dateline, on a network owned by the pro-Bush defense
giant General Electric. NBC's Dateline, it will be recalled,
has a history of inventing stories in the same manner as The
New York Times' former "ace reporter" Jayson Blair.
It was Dateline that faked a General Motors truck explosion in
1993 to prove that there was a critical design flaw with the
vehicle that resulted in  spontaneous gas tank explosions. Only
now, after ten years, is the co-anchor of Dateline, Jane Pauley,
finally getting the boot. Perhaps there should be a new journalism
award for fakery: we could call it the Blair-Pauley Award. Based
on his "evidence" about Kennedy, Dallek should be the
first honoree.
Dallek is the author who previously "exposed"
President Kennedy's persistent drug use. In his book, "John
F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, 1917-1963," Dallek claimed
that Kennedy took as many as 12 different drugs, including codeine,
Ritalin, methadone, and librium, at the same time, making him
a virtual zombie. Dallek even suggested on ABC's Good Morning
America that Kennedy's back problem may have cost him life. He
said the fact that JFK wore a back brace, making him sit up straight
in the limousine in Dallas, made him an easier sniper target.
Dallek suggested that without the brace, Kennedy may have been
saved. Nice fairy tale, but more on that later.
Dallek's first book on Kennedy was excerpted
in The Atlantic Monthly in 2002. The magazine is yet another
neocon outlet whose editor during the time it published the JFK
revelations was none other than the late Michael Kelly, who was
virtually beatified by the media after his accidental death while
hyping the war in Iraq in his role as a Pentagon "embedded"
journalist.
Dallek's only source for his current
scurrilous attack on President Kennedy is a 77-year-old yenta
named Barbara Gamarekian . A former White House aide for Kennedy,
Gamarekian told the neocon-owned New York Daily News that she
did not remember the intern's last name -- only her first name
-- which she would not reveal. In addition to Mort Zuckerman's
New York tabloid, other neocon muck mills, including Fox News
and RushLimbaugh.com, ran with Dallek's "revelations"
immediately.
Dallek's only documentation on the supposed
intern affair was a recently-unsealed oral history provided by
Garmarekian. No affidavits, no corroborating witness statements,
nothing. Other noted historians have told this reporter that
Dallek's "proof" is nothing more than hearsay and not
worthy of an academic-level research project. Dallek is ensconced
at Boston University, whose Chancellor, John Silber, is a noted
Democratic right-winger and neocon adherent.
Dallek's publisher of his latest tome
of Kennedy is Simon & Schuster, a part of Viacom-CBS, the
same mega-corp operation that fired Ed Gernon -- the director
of the forthcoming CBS "Hitler: The Rise of Evil" miniseries
-- for comparing Hitler's rise to power to America's lemming-like
support for George W. Bush. Gernon's insightful comments were
made in an interview with Rupert Murdoch's TV Guide, which wasted
no time in turning them over to its sister publication, The New
York Post. The Post quickly pilloried Gernon just as other neocon
outlets are now assassinating President Kennedy all over again.
It is obvious that the neo-cons are now intent on rewriting our
history --  President Kennedy
was a whoring, drug-induced rogue and George W. Bush is a saint
who, under no circumstances can be compared to Hitler. While
President Kennedy certainly had his share of extramarital affairs,
he managed to keep the planet from self-immolating itself in
a nuclear conflagration. On the other hand, Bush's antics are
very similar to those of Hitler's: the xenophobia, flag waving,
threats to other countries, and invocation of a greater calling
are all reminiscent of the German Fuhrer.This reporter is not
buying the revisionist garbage of the neocons.
Of course Simon & Schuster would
never want to commission a history of George W's father, who
was working for the CIA before and during the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Poppy Bush then worked for one Felix Rodriguez, the head of an
anti-Castro Cuban sabotage team. Bush, at the time, owned Zapata
Oil, an oil and gas company based in Houston. Not coincidentally,
the Bay of Pigs invasion was code named "Operation Zapata"
by the CIA. In addition, Bush's company took possession of two
Navy ship's from the CIA and renamed them the HOUSTON and BARBARA,
the latter named after Bush's wife, our former first lady.
Rodriguzez, Bush's Cuban interlocutor,
would turn up again as one of the principals in the Vice President
Bush-led Iran-contra affair.
In 1963, Poppy Bush was also tied up
with George DeMohrenshildt, a Byelorussian emigre and CIA agent
who took care of Lee Harvey Oswald upon his return to the United
States from his political "exile" as a Marxist true
believer. Interestingly, Oswald lived in Byelorussia, where he
married the daughter of a KGB colonel. It was DeMohrenshildt
who arranged Oswald's move to Dallas from New Orleans.
A Nov. 1963 FBI memo to the State Dept.
said there was concern that there might be another invasion of
Cuba by anti-Castroites. The memo went on to state that this
information was passed along to "George Bush of the Central
Intelligence Agency" the day after the assassination of
JFK. In 1977, just before he was to testify before the House
Select Committee on Assassinations, deMohrenshildt was found
dead of a gun shot wound. In his personal address book was found
the following entry:
"Bush, George H. W. (Poppy) 1412
W. Ohio also Zapata Petroleum Midland." DeMohrenshildt's
son-in-law told the Warren Commission that his father-in-law
was likely involved with JFK's assassination. That makes George
H. W. Bush a possible accomplice in aiding and abetting the murder
of our 35th President. So it isn't President Kennedy's record
that should be in question right now but that of Poppy Bush.
It is the Bush record of involvement with murderers in Dallas
and on the streets of Washington (the bombing murder of Chile's
former Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier) that should be the
topic of Simon & Schuster books, NBC Dateline interviews,
and the rest of the mega-corporation news media.
It is not the history of John F. Kennedy
that should be the subject of scandalous attacks by the neocon
media and their repugnant water bearers. Rather, historians and
the media should concentrate on the sordid history of the Bush
family. Through three generations, the Bushes have been the dots
who have connected American business to the Nazis (Prescott or
"Grandpoppy" Bush was a notorious financial underwriter
of Nazi German industries during World War II), the assassination
of President Kennedy, the Iran-contra scandal, the stealing of
an American presidential election, and now, sadly and according
to Florida Senator Bob Graham, may have had foreknowledge of
the September 11 terrorist attacks, the results of which, in
effect, abrogated the U.S. Constitution.
While this country tries to sort out
the terrible calamities visited upon it by the Bush-Cheney regime,
a note to the Bushes and their neocon bottom feeders: you've
done enough damage to the Kennedy family -- let President Ken
nedy rest in peace.
Wayne Madsen
is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist.
He wrote the introduction to Forbidden
Truth. He is the co-author, with John Stanton, of the
forthcoming book, "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of
George Bush II."
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
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