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In reply to the discussion: GHW Bush, JFK's assassination, the CIA and drugs [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)subscribed to Oliver Stone's version of what happened and who was responsible. (Bugliosi simply demolishes Stone in his penultimate chapter.) It just makes me so sad and I was knee-high to a grasshopper back in 1963. Sad for JFK, his wife and kids, sad for Marina and her two kids, and even weirdly sad for Lee Harvey Oswald who, Bugliosi says, cared more about politics than all the other employeees of the Texas School Book Depository put together and who was right to be outraged at the bullshit we were pulling on Castro's Cuba at the time (even if he didn't know all the sordid details that would only emerge with the Rockefeller and Church Committee hearings).
But I'm saddest for the people of the world (including myself) who lost a great leader who clearly was growing in the position and was poised for strides of greatness in 1964 and thereafter.