Word: jfk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing makes Crane seethe more than when the discussion turns to the Kennedy Library. Here is a project that makes him wish he was back on the council. "That JFK Library is a real ripoff. We spent over $50 million to make that site available for the library. And then the ENEs came in overnight. They started throwing their spears after we got the green light. They were well-represented, and well financed...
MUCH OF SALE'S book is poorly substantiated and irresponsible. In his speculation on the assassination of JFK, Sale makes no specific accusations, only notes that there were certain Rimsters who had plenty to gain from his death--Carlos Marcello of the New Orleans Mafia and Jimmy Hoffa, both under investigation by Attorney General Robert Kennedy '48, anti-Castro elements in Florida, those who suspected that the President was wavering in his commitment to South Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson. These sorts of charges, lacking the necessary circumstantial evidence, lend credence to charges that Sale is just another left-wing paranoid...
...thing" coming out. But as Richard Helms irately replied when asked to cover up the burglary as a CIA operation, there was nothing left to expose about the Bay of Pigs fiasco. In the absence of another convincing explanation, this suggests that the Bay of Pigs-inspired assassination of JFK was on Nixon's mind...
...Weberman claim that things would have been very different had Kennedy lived: he would have kept us out of Vietnam, secured detente earlier, and inaugurated massive social welfare measures. This is difficult to swallow; the legislation of the Kennedy administration does not suggest real social reform, and while JFK might not have defended the American empire in Vietnam, there is no reason to suppose he had given up his Cold War policies and would not have defended it elsewhere. But the assassination and the CIA power it reveals certainly refute the claims that American democracy has effective political meaning...
Inquire: JFK Memorial Bomb Shelter. This show has been described as "a Bicentennial play for peace." When asked to elaborate, the man at the box office (he was actually only an electrician everyone else was out getting pizza, he said) would only babble, "I can't describe it, like, you just gotta see it, you know?" Tonight and Saturday at 8 at the Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont...