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...defendants in homicides or assaults are acquitted on the ground of mental illness. Would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley's plea was accepted, but insanity claims by Hillside Strangler Kenneth Bianchi and mass murderer John Wayne Gacy were rebuffed. Experts predict Dahmer's bid will fail as well. "There is a point at which crimes reach such a magnitude that people don't care why someone did something," observes San Diego criminal attorney John Cotsirilos...
...remember reading this testimony, mesmerized by my sudden immersion in a carnival-sideshow underbelly of American life. (The 26 volumes of Warren Commission testimony are like a vast, inchoate Great American Novel in that respect.) I didn't feel I was any closer to solving the Kennedy assassination, but I did feel I had learned more about the America that produced both Kennedy and his assassin than was conveyed by the bland, complacent sitcom image of the nation and its institutions that prevailed in November...
...theories (bitterness by some agents over Kennedy's Bay of Pigs "betrayal" was an obvious motive). This year the first and most relentless conspiracy theorist of them all, Mark Lane, has come out with a book, Plausible Denial, which targets high-level CIA figures as the plotters behind the assassination. Lane presents what he calls new and conclusive evidence that the CIA was setting up Oswald in the months before the assassination by having an Oswald impersonator meet with Soviet and Cuban agents in Mexico City, the better to frame him as a Commie assassin...
...confess was Robert Easterling, a Mississippi ex-con who told journalist Henry Hurt in 1985 that he killed Kennedy on behalf of Fidel Castro. And then, in 1989, there was the son of a Dallas policeman who pushed his own (now dead) father forward as the grassy-knoll assassin, introducing some curious confessional documentation he claimed to have found in an attic. (The credibility problem of assassination buffs has not been enhanced by the double standard with which they seem to accept indiscriminately every self-proclaimed assassin or grassy-knoll eyewitness who comes forward, but tear to shreds any evidence...
...move forward a lot faster," he says. Until a few years ago, his top executives would hear Turner talk of suicide in moments of depression. At other times he was convinced he would be killed. "Years ago, I came up with what I was going to say to an assassin if he came to shoot me," he said recently. "You want to know what it is? 'Thanks for not coming sooner.' Pretty good...