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agent Oswald, in which he was allegedly an FBI informant tracking illegal arms trade
involving anti-Castro Cubans. 594
Texas journalist Jim Marrs, in his 1989 book Crossfire: the Plot that Killed
Kennedy, synthesized much of the conspiracy literature. This was one of the books
Oliver Stone used as the basis of his movie JFK. On the frontispiece of the book, Marrs
included the Adolf Hitler quote that “The great masses of the people will more easily fall
victims to a great lie than to a small one.” 595 The “great lie,” in this case, would be the
Warren Commission’s version of the assassination: that “Kennedy’s death was the result
of a tragic meeting between a powerful national leader and a warped solitary young man
wanting to be somebody.” 596 Marrs outlined his own theory of the assassination, in
which all of Kennedy’s enemies apparently had a role to play, and Oswald was a patsy
set up through his connections to U.S. intelligence. Marrs even accused Kennedy’s
successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, of complicity, having the ultimate power, along with
J. Edgar Hoover, to cover up the real story of the assassination, Oswald’s links to U.S.
intelligence, and his own role in the murder.
On point after point, Marrs took issue with the Warren Commission portrayal of
Oswald’s life, beginning with his childhood and his mother, Marguerite. “Despite much
conjecture,” Marrs wrote, “there is little evidence that Lee’s childhood was any better or
594
Ray and Mary La Fontaine, Oswald Talked: the New Evidence in the JFK
Assassination, (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Company, 1996).
595
Jim Marrs, Crossfire: the Plot that Killed Kennedy, (New York: Carroll & Graf:1989),
v.
596
Marrs, xi.
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