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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780881846485ISBN:0881846481
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1993-01-21
ISBN-13:9780881846485ISBN:0881846481
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 1993-01-21
ISBN-13:9780881846485ISBN:0881846481
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Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780881846485ISBN:0881846481
Description: Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Spine, edges and corners bumped. 625 Pages clean and bright. Former owner name on fep. Text is clean & unmarked, binding is tight. read more
"Spoiler alert: The CIA did it. Now we can al rest easy. I read recently that it had become impossible to write an effective satire of American society because reality had become so perposterously absurd that any attempt to satirize it will strike the reader more as a prophetic nightmare than as a satirization. This is one of the primary texts Oliver Stone used to plot out the film JFK, and is basically the Encyclopedeia of JFK assassination theories. This also proves the satire quote from above, since the whole time you're reading this you think, "Oh my god! That could NEVER happen!" But it did. Or, at least, I think it did, which brings me to the main point of what is interesting about this book, the JFK assassination in particular, and conspiracy mythology in general. That Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy, that our own government murdered the president because he wanted to bring an end to the American military industrial complex matters very little as history, even if it is true. It matters not. What matters--why conspiracy theories are important to us--is as personal mythology. It doesn't matter if it happened. That so misses the point. What matters is that MILLIONS of Americans and HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people around the world believe it happened. They believe in the conspiracy to assassinate JFK like some people believe in Jesus or Quantum Mechanics. It is part of their personal mythologies. It explains the internal workings of their personal cosmology, the spiritual universe in which they live. Paranoia. Determinism. Shadowy forces. This is what we believe in. This is the world we believe, in our guts, we live in. It cannot be explained. It is not benevolent. It doesn't want to kill us, it just wants to control us. We're okay with that."
"One of the first books to explore the Kennedy Assassination conundrum and the first to be well-known, it is still one of the best places to start when exploring this subject. Along with anything by Harold Weisberg, brings the Warren Commission report into a glaring light and shows it cannot have happened the way they said it did."
"Crossfire is a great book! I'm not through with it yet, but what I've read is great! Many things have happened that JFK wasn't killed with. The Cubans did not kill him. The CIA was involved in his killing. Johnson helped kill him. The FBI helped kill him. I'll see what happens next!"
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