Reading for Oct. 11-13: JFK

We are still on JFK, obviously, so see the previously posted assignment. Please note that I just revamped the JFK document page with a more varied and interesting set of materials that also happens to relate more closely to the lectures. Please go look again if you already checked that page, and do it again in a few days in case I locate something else. I will also paste some of the links below.

Let me also urge students again to rent and watch Oliver Stone's JFK if you haven't already. I say this not because it contains much in the way of accurate facts, but it is a fantastic distillation of 3 decades worth of conspiracy theory in which you will see many of our course themes reflected. I will be glad to loan out my VHS copy as long as I can get it back by Monday.

NEW MATERIAL FROM THE JFK DOCUMENT PAGE

Politics of the JFK Conspiracy Theories

• Far Right reactions: Revilo P. Oliver, "Marksmanship
  in Dallas" -- this is also excerpted in the Davis reserve
  reading assignment


• Liberal Consensus reactions: Editorial
  from The New Yorker (7 December 1963)


• Left-wing reactions
  
  
  
  • Nation "The
    American Condition" (21 December 1963)
  
  
  • Mark Lane, "Oswald
    Innocent? A Lawyer's Brief"
    ( December 1963)
  
  
  • Edward Jay Epstein, "Who's
    Afraid of the Warren Report?" (December 1966)
  
  
  • The British Left
    
    
    
    • M.S. Arnoni, "Who
      Killed Whom and Why?" (January
      1964)
    
    
    • Bertrand Russell, "16
      Questions On The Assassination"
      (September 1964)
  
  
  • Split
    on the left: Radical journalist I.F.
    Stone defends the Warren Commission & responds to
    Russell
  
  
  • Student radicals: Todd
    Gitlin remembers