Contents: History Will Not Absolve Us

Contents

Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	xvii

Preface R. Cardona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	xix

Introduction E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	1

Letter to Vincent J. Salandria April 5, 1995 E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	9

APPENDICES

I	Speech at American University June 10, 1963 John F. Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	39

II	Concerning the Facts and Consequences of the Tragic Death of President John F. Kennedy, November 23, 1963 Fidel Castro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	51

III	Analyses of the Warren Commission’s Evidence and Conclusions Vincent J. Salandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	87

	The Warren Report Analysis of Shots, Trajectories, and Wounds: A Lawyer’s Dissenting View Vincent J. Salandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	89

	A Philadelphia Lawyer Analyzes the Shots, Trajectories and Wounds Vincent J. Salandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	99

	The Warren Report? Vincent J. Salandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	117

	The Bullet Holes in the President’s Jacket and Shirt E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	173

IV	Internal Data on the United States Government’s Immediate Reaction to the Assassination E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	179

V	Oswald and U.S. Intelligence Christopher Sharrett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	193

VI	A “Political Translation” from Isaac Don Levine’s Mind of an Assassin E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	199

VII	The Nation and the Warren Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	205

	A Summary of The Nation’s Editorial Policy from the Assassination to the Warren Report E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	207

	The Truth is Too Terrible Fred J. Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	217

VIII	The Work of Ray Marcus Excerpts from Addendum B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	235

	Truman’s Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	237
	I.F. Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	239
	A.L. Wirin and the Liberal Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	239
	Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	248
	Five Professors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	248
	The New York Times, CBS, and the CIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	252

IX	The McCloy/Zorin Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	255

X	The Khrushchev-Castro Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	261

	Letter to Fidel Castro, January 31, 1963 Nikita Khrushchev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	263

	Discussion of Khrushchev’s Letter to Castro E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	279

XI	Notes on the Dynamics of Public Denial in the Assassination E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	281

	On the Theory of a Black Star at the Center of our Culture and Certain Psychological Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	283

	On the Psychological Process of Denial by Journalists When Confronted with Salandria’s Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	283

	The Battle of Belief Against Knowledge in the Struggle over Oliver Stone’s film JFK . . . . . . . . . . . . .	286

	With Regard to Salandria’s Correspondence with Chomsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	286

	The Vietnam Diversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	288

	The Centrality of Kennedy’s Cuban Policy to the Motivation for the Assassination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	289

XII	Two Dialogues E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	293

	Kennedy-Dulles Dialogue in Heaven: The Logic of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	295

	Einstein-Sonrobe Dialogue: A Search for the Logic of Peace and the Unified Field Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	301

XIII	With Hegemony and Intervention There Can Be No Peace or Social Development Fidel Castro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	311

References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	317

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .	321