Prologue
[Bethesda Navy Hospital corpsman James] Jenkins said his experience of the president's autopsy changed forever his view of his own government.
"I was 19 or 20 years old, and all at once I understood that my country was not much better than a third world country. From that point on in time, I had no trust, no respect for the government".
The process of killing President Kennedy and covering up the conspiracy relied on parties whom the plotters knew in advance they could count on to enter into a conspiracy of silence. Those few witnesses who courageously broke the silence, such as Dr. Charles Crenshaw, suffered the consequences of being isolated and singled out. But the Dallas and Bethesda doctors who changed their testimony under stress, who lied out of fear for their lives or who followed orders in not probing wounds, and then stonewalling questions, were not alone. They joined in a larger conspiracy of silence that would envelop our government, our media, our academic institutions, and virtually our entire society from November 22, 1963, to the present.
The promoters of the systemic evil involved in killing President Kennedy counted on our repression and denial of its reality. They knew that no one would want to deal with the elephant in the living room. The Dallas and Bethesda doctors who saw the truth staring up at them from the president's dead body, and who then backed away from it, were not unique. They are symbolic of us all.
Source: "JFK And The Unspeakable: Why He Died And Why It Matters" by James W. Douglass, p. 315.
"I was 19 or 20 years old, and all at once I understood that my country was not much better than a third world country. From that point on in time, I had no trust, no respect for the government".
The process of killing President Kennedy and covering up the conspiracy relied on parties whom the plotters knew in advance they could count on to enter into a conspiracy of silence. Those few witnesses who courageously broke the silence, such as Dr. Charles Crenshaw, suffered the consequences of being isolated and singled out. But the Dallas and Bethesda doctors who changed their testimony under stress, who lied out of fear for their lives or who followed orders in not probing wounds, and then stonewalling questions, were not alone. They joined in a larger conspiracy of silence that would envelop our government, our media, our academic institutions, and virtually our entire society from November 22, 1963, to the present.
The promoters of the systemic evil involved in killing President Kennedy counted on our repression and denial of its reality. They knew that no one would want to deal with the elephant in the living room. The Dallas and Bethesda doctors who saw the truth staring up at them from the president's dead body, and who then backed away from it, were not unique. They are symbolic of us all.
Source: "JFK And The Unspeakable: Why He Died And Why It Matters" by James W. Douglass, p. 315.
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