Word: castros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
DeLillo's hypothesis about the Kennedy assassination is similar. American intelligence officers, frustrated by the Bay of Pigs fiasco and Kennedy's diplomatic reconciliation with Castro, hoped to force Kennedy's hand. They planned to stage an attempt on Kennedy's life, a near miss. They would plant clues that would point back to Havana. Kennedy would be likely to believe a link to Cuba, because Kennedy had secretly ordered the C.I.A. to consider and research the assassination of Castro. If the plan succeeded, President Kennedy would be tricked into renewing hostilities with Cuba. Somewhere along the line, of course...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Amy Wilentz, Laurence Zuckerman...
...intricate plot with cinematic bravura. There are flashes back and forward in time, and jump cuts between the conspirators and Oswald, who is growing up to become exactly the kind of person the CIA renegades had planned to invent: a malcontent and misfit with a known fondness for Castro and guns. Slowly, dimly, Oswald begins to realize that he is being watched, people have designs on his destiny. Someone who knows what is cooking spells it out for him: "You're a quirk of history. You're a coincidence. They devise a plan, you fit it perfectly." The lecturer concludes...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Edward W. Desmond, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Amy Wilentz, Laurence Zuckerman...