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...symbolic importance of Kennedy's assassination explains our morbid fascination with his death. Though only a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald, was blamed for Kennedy's murder, since 1963, books accusing the Cubans, the Mafia, and even the CIA have become a veritable cottage industry. The worst of these have had all the marks of crack-pot conspiracy theories, delegitimizing the conclusion reached even by a 1979 government committee that Kennedy probably was the victim of a conspiracy...
...ones of substance as well as style. Scheim expertly rehashes previous arguments linking the Mafia to JFK's assassination, but it is difficult to tell which, if any, of his arguments are really new. In addition, Scheim rests his case on a tenuous and largely speculative connection between Oswald and the Mafia...
...must seriously question both the accuracy of both Mr. Rea's observations and the conclusions he draws from them. It seems clear to me that Mandery and Beroutsos engaged in a shouting match about as much as John F. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald engaged in a gunfight. Being the one who is shouted at is not the same as being the one who is shouting. Being attacked is not the same as being an attacker. And stepping down off the chair and leaving the meeting room in order to resolve a personal dispute is also quite different from standing...
...Oswald Tippo, former chancellor and provost of UMASS/Amherst, said he believed the letter to be accurate. "Dukakis has a wretched record as far as public institutions are concerned," he said. Tippo said he thought many of Dukakis' opponents would be reluctant to speak out because, "they have to go to the governor for their budgets...
...their goods." This rationalization provoked ridicule from Democratic critics. Congressman Richard Gephardt of Missouri, a champion of fair trade and a presidential candidate, labeled Reagan's argument "mush." Said he: "The trade deficit is an indication that we're not winning our share of the world economy." Rudolph Oswald, chief economist of the AFL-CIO, agreed. "Reagan must have been reading Alice in Wonderland rather than the U.S. trade figures. He's got everything upside down...