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From the May-June 1999 issue (Vol. 6 No. 4) |
In this issue we feature a special section on Jim Garrison. In complementary fashion we present looks at two new books on that inquest. The first and longer section is the bad news. A new hatchet job on Garrison has just been published by one Patricia Lambert. Bill Davy and myself go after this new atrocity—a book as bad as Gus Russo’s—and expose it as the classic propaganda tract that it is. We feature an excerpt from a special report on James Phelan, exposing him even more as the government stooge he was. Significantly, Lambert basically ignores this aspect of Phelan’s career in order to hold him up as an honest reporter. We also begin to ask some more serious questions about Walt Brown, whose journal actually published an absolutely glowing review of Lambert’s book. Where does one draw the line here? And finally we should note that this section features the longest and most detailed look at the probable role of David Lifton’s buddy Kerry Thornley in Oswald’s New Orleans activities that has been adduced anywhere. Relying on newly released files, it raises some serious questions about Thornley’s role in the setting up of Oswald and begs the question as to why Lifton ignores all of this to this day.
On the positive side, Bill Davy’s new book on the Garrison case is due out very shortly. We feature a chapter from his extraordinary new book which focuses on Oswald’s activities in New Orleans in 1963. Unlike Lambert, Bill did not selectively filter the new files on this aspect of the case in order to come to a preordained conclusion. He did what any honest investigator would do: he followed the evidence where it led. In this case the evidence leads to Oswald being directly involved with a whole intelligence underworld in New Orleans in the summer of 1963. Bill exposes that underworld in more detail and depth than any other writer before him and that includes both Jim Garrison and myself. In our view, Bill’s book is the most valuable new volume based on the new files since John Newman’s Oswald and the CIA. We recommend it to all of our readers without qualification.
Elsewhere, Lisa Pease focuses her strong analytical skills on a case that is all but ignored: the shooting of George Wallace. To those in the know, a familiar verdict is outlined here: the physical evidence at the scene of the crime does not fit the official story. Magic bullets again make their appearance, as they have in the JFK and RFK cases. Also, Lisa examines the strange presence of Howard Hunt in this case quickly after the shooting, as well as his involvement in other areas of the political process in 1972. We also take a look at the strange testimony of Floyd Boring to the ARRB. The role of the certain people in the Secret Service gets more and more questionable as time goes on in this case. Vince Palamara is the foremost researcher on this aspect of the assassination and we are proud to offer his long and detailed look at the questionable Mr. Boring. Vince explodes some myths along the way as he enlightens us as to the strange behavior of the Secret Service in a time of extreme pressure.
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