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eforms. Gelb and other commentators pointed out that there is no way of knowing what
Kennedy would have done regarding Vietnam.
Former President and Warren Commission Gerald Ford and Warren Commission
counsel David Belin also denounced JFK in an article published in the Washington Post.
Ford and Belin objected to Stone’s film as well as a documentary called The Men Who
Killed Kennedy that aired on the A&E network and its sister station, the History Channel.
Ford and Belin wrote that “The Common denominator of these commercial productions
is the big lie – the assertion that the top echelons of our government were conspiratorially
involved in that assassination and that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the lone gunman who
killed President Kennedy and Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit.” 714
Another defender of the Warren Commission, William Manchester, the author of
The Death of a President, wrote the New York Times to scold Stone for his rendition of
the assassination. Manchester compared the Holocaust to the Kennedy assassination. “If
you put six million dead Jews on one side of a scale,” Manchester wrote, “and on the
other side public the Nazi regime…you have a rough balance: greatest crime, greatest
criminals. But if you put the murdered President of the United States on one side of a
scale and that wretched waif Oswald on the other side, it doesn’t balance.” He claimed
this was why people have sought to find a conspiracy that “would invest the President
death with meaning.” There was no evidence of such a conspiracy, Manchester
concluded. 715
714 JFK: The Book of the Film, 253.
715 JFK: The Book of the Film, 452.
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