Twitter. Com booktv. Joining us on booktv is james rustin junior. His newest book is called the accidental victim. Jfk, lee harvey, oswald and the real target in dallas. What do you mean by the real target in dallas . Its a congress con have a luted i think all of them are nonsense. I think we have to bring it down to the psychology and mind set of Lee Harvey Oswald the killer. What ive attempted to do is go to the core of his motive for picking up the weapon on november 22nd. You had to put two things together. The first is the attitude toward kennedy. Where he had absolutely no for the president at all. Admired the president for his policies. The change in military danger from honorable to dishonorable. He appealed to connelly to change it in 1962 and that hounded him to change him and hounded him for the next year and a half. And i believe he put the face of connelly on the frustration. He had a rage and anger against connelly. But not such an attitude toward kennedy at all. How did
Been demonized and morally unacceptable. The deliberate targeting was taken up in world war ii and ended in the deaths of millions. The bombing of european cities by both sides of the war and japanese cities by the u. S. As well as civilians and china and the philippines and korea by japan were consistent with and encourage by shermans precedent. The logic of saving lives and the long run seems to be refuted by history. Finally, if you scroll through this entry, the words related to William Sherman tags at the bottom includes collateral damage, murderer, terrorist, and war criminal. Let me be a little bit more honest and fair. This not the best source out there. It was written by somebody named text. It misquotes sherman at one time. If you look at the word association, it includes war hero. What it does represent is a popularly held view that william t. Sherman and the march through georgia and the carolinas through the final months of the civil war have something to do with the creat