[PDF file]: […] Milteer was in Quitman at the time of the assassination. By providing false information, someone essentially gave an alibi to a suspect known to have planned to kill the president. (p. 60) (Emphasis in the original.) Another possibility, in fact the only other possibility, is that there was no ‘someone’, and McMahon had outright […]
[PDF file]: […] culture’. On the eve of the Iraq war Bush could say, ’I don’t care what the international lawyers say, we are going to kick some ass.’ (I kill, therefore I am.) This, Professor Boggs comments, was merely a reflection of a deep-seated national exceptionalism and shared political consensus. Congress even passed a law in […]
[PDF file]: […] face’. (p. 176) She describes one rally where Trump actually pondered having journalists killed in front of his cheering supporters: ‘I hate them, but I would never kill them’. He ‘pauses **again** and makes a so-so gesture with his hand, as if entertaining a bloodbath in the press pen’, but then rules it out, […]
[PDF file]: […] to write what became Legend at a time when the CIA was under intense scrutiny for a series of illegal activities, most famously a CIAMafia plot to kill Fidel Castro. The political climate led to investigations by the Senate Church Committee and the creation of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). The CIA […]
