The Widening Crack in the Kennedy Case

There’s a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in (cont.)… Oliver Stone, whose new documentary on the JFK assassination premiered to standing-ovation audiences at Cannes this week, has again opened wide the crack on the long-shut Kennedy case. The U.S. intelligence establishment, trying desperately to uphold the mythology that sustains the rapidly declining American empire, is again distraught about Stone. But the filmmaker, whose 1991 dramatic film JFK began the process of national awakening about the violent overthrow of President Kennedy, is again capturing the media and public’s attention. Stone deserves a national medal.

The new zeitgeist of Kennedy truth-telling has also resulted in a sudden spike in sales for my book The Devil’s Chessboard. I must thank Joe Rogan and other podcasters for this renewal of interest in my book, which places the principal blame for the Kennedy assassination and coverup on Allen Dulles, the hardline CIA director whom Kennedy forced out of office. My book became a New York Times bestseller — despite a media blackout led by the Times. I take great satisfaction in that.

Here are some other books that I am reading this summer, to learn more about the dark side of U.S. power:

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties, by Tom O’Neill

A Drop of Treason: Philip Agee and His Exposure of the CIA, by Jonathan Stevenson

Dark Quadrant: Organized Crime, Big Business and the Corruption of American Democracy, by Jonathan Marshall

John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles