https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/blogRSS for NodeSat, 29 May 2021 20:15:01 GMThttps://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/did-anybody-hear-rose-cherami-predict-the-jfk-assassination?lang=en60ae48d0217113001585c862Sat, 29 May 2021 11:18:26 GMTFred LitwinA previous blog post looked at Dr. Wayne Owens who conspiracy theorists maintain was a witness to Cherami s prediction. However, the evidence is clear that he did not directly speak to Cherami, but heard an account second
Warren Hinckle was the editor of
Ramparts Magazine, a fairly popular left-wing magazine from 194 to 1969. He wrote a really fun book, about the 1960s, called
If You Have a Lemon, Make Lemonade.
He devotes one chapter, Give Us This Day Our Daily Paranoia, to
the conspiracy theorists of the JFK assassination. His book is worth buying just for that chapter. Here is an excerpt about Jim Garrison:
My last communication with Garrison was on November 5, 1968. It was not untypical. I was interrupted in mid-explanation to an unhappy investor (Keating s stormy departure had not helped the money-raising situation). The investor was turning a tinge yellow at my suggestion that the only way to insure the return of the $20,000 he had previously loaned
Jim Garrison also read Crafard s testimony and he marked it up with comments.
Volume XIII, page 404-405. Garrison is interested in Crafard s stint in the U.S. Army. He was only in for thirteen months and was then discharged for medical reasons.
Volume XIII, page 408-409. Garrison makes a note about Crafard s remarkable memory and then wondered about Crafard s work at the carnival - as what? A sharpshooter? Then Garrison marveled at his memory once again, Did you ever see a memory
like this Every week in order. All Crafard was doing was just going over all of his places of employment.
The Outline for a George Lardner/Harold Weisberg Book on Jim Garrison/Oliver Stone From:
George Lardner of the Washington Post was the last person to speak to David Ferrie before he died of a berry aneurysm. Lardner would go on to cover Jim Garrison, and he worked with Harold Weisberg in exposing Oliver Stone s film JFK.
When going through
Harold Weisberg s Archive, I was surprised to learn that they had plans to write a book together. Here is the outline that Lardner submitted to a publisher.
Alas, it was not to be. Weisberg, prickly at the best of times, immediately sent a letter to Lardner with a variety of objections, and the project was off. Fortunately, a lot of the material that Weisberg would have provided to the project is still in his archi