Effie Perrine

My father-in-law sent my husband an article called “Lee Harvey Oswald & the Liberal Crack-Up.” I’m guessing he also meant for me to read it though it wasn’t addressed to me…but since I am part of the “Crack Up” I thought I would read it.

The article is written by a guy named James Piereson. I haven’t been so bored by anyone’s vitriol since I forced myself to read “Reclaiming History” by Bugliosi.  The article was such a waste of time, especially for those who are looking for real research and answers to difficult questions.

He basically says the Kennedy assassination splintered the real liberalism which in some ways was moving to the right. Yeah-an assassination can do that, can’t it? Brilliant deductions on his part! The assassination of an Archduke can set off a world war but the death of the President of the United States is inconsequential? Please.

He also claims liberalism was splintered by Jacqueline Kennedy’s emphasis on projecting the ideal of Camelot on to the Kennedy Administration. His reasoning is that because Camelot is unattainable-liberals thought their ideals unattainable after Kennedy’s death. Blaming a grieving and possibly unhinged Jacqueline Kennedy for splinting liberalism in the wake of assassination is ludicrous.

I liken the Kennedy administration to any other political governing entity whose head of state is killed. Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Archduke Ferdinand and others have suffered the same fate with similar consequences to the state of the nation and the world.

James Piereson is not a truth-seeker. He glides over any real scrutiny by writing, “There is little point in rehearsing the many criticisms of the Commissions work…” Along with merely citing books which support the Commissions conclusions, he avoids answering “all” serious inquiry into the murder of President Kennedy.

The death of President Kennedy represents a coup-d’-etat with Oswald as merely one player. The truth lies not in whether or not Oswald actually took a shot killing Kennedy but in our ability to use rudimentary critical thinking skills to ascertain some conclusion. It is clear Piereson is still sucking the teat of serenity in the Commission’s liberal fairy tale.

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