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 | | From: | Hottie 4 Dik | | Subject: | Re: third time around....works rather well | | Date: | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:03:42 GMT |
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he was in charge of the Dallas doctors testimony in the JFK case.
One of his assignments as liaison for the Warren Commission seems
to have been talking Dr. Malcolm Perry out of his original
statement that the throat wound was one of entry, which would
have indicated an assassin in front of Kennedy. But another thing
Gochenaur related in his Church Committee interview was the
tirade that Moore went into the longer he talked to him: how
Kennedy was a pinko who was selling us out to the communists.
This went on for hours. Gochenaur was actually frightened by the
time Moore drove him home.
But there is another more insidious strain of the rightwing in
America. These are the conservatives who sometimes disguise
themselves as Democrats, as liberals, as "internationalists."
This group is typified by men like Averill Harriman, Henry
Stimson, John Foster Dulles and the like. The common rubric used
to catalog them is the Eastern Establishment. The Kennedy
brothers were constantly at odds with them. In 1962, Bobby
clashed with Dean Acheson during the missile crisis. Acheson
wanted a surprise attack; Bobby rejected it saying his brother
would not go down in history as another Tojo. In 1961, JFK
disobeyed their advice at the Bay of Pigs and refused to add air
support to the invasion. He was punished for this in Fortune
magazine with an article by Time-Life employee Charles Murphy
that blamed Kennedy for the failure of the plan. Kennedy stripped
Murphy of his Air Force reserve status but - Murphy wrote to
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