Versions: J.F.K.

           

I read the O’Reilly book a few years ago. Kennedy’s Last Days is standard narrative and does not present any rebuttal to the mainstream “lone gunman” theory. I have to say it is beautifully printed: quality paper, hi-def photos, attractive layout with well-spaced type that is easy on the eyes, but it is written at a 6th-grade level. It’s a good intro to the (discredited) Warren Report narrative for middle or high-schoolers.

I am partway through the Prouty book. It is far more dense and focuses on background details in the years leading up to JFK’s assassination. It  has a foreword by Oliver Stone which is very thought-provoking. Prouty was involved in decision-making for the Vietnam War and he knows the subject well. He offers a very different take on it than Bill O, who probably had his ghost-writer package info from the internet for him.

I challenge you to read them both and then tell me where YOU think U.S. tax dollars go after they skim off billions for the spooks at Langley VA.

GETS GOOD @ 6:45

Chapter One

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.

The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the beginning of heaven and Earth.
The named is the mother of the ten thousand things.
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery.
Ever desiring, one sees the manifestations.
These two spring from the same source but differ in name;
this appears as darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gate to all mystery.

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

Chapter 25

Something mysteriously formed,
Born before heaven and Earth.
In the silence and the void,
Standing alone and unchanging,
Ever present and in motion.
Perhaps it is the mother of ten thousand things.
I do not know its name
Call it Tao.
For lack of a better word, I call it great.

Being great, it flows
It flows far away.

Having gone far, it returns.

 

Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
Chapter 25

Translated by Gia-Fu Feng  馮家福  (1919–1985) and Jane English (1942 – )
Vintage Books, 1989