Final_Judgment

Foreword: The Other Side of the Jigsaw Puzzle . . .
of the president, however, Frogue was so frustrated and disillusioned that he
instead joined the Marine Corps. A high school teacher and community
leader (and a part-time student of JFK conspiracy theories) Frogue thought
that an academic forum—through the auspices of the South Orange County
Community College District (of which he was elected president)—would be
an ideal way to debate the theory presented in Final Judgment, along with
other competing theories—including one that "The Nazis Killed JFK."
But the ADL thought otherwise. They had no desire to allow college
students and other interested participants to even hear what I had to say.
They considered the thesis of Final Judgment so dangerous that they did all
in their immense power to prevent me from being heard. Thus, Steve
Frogue's project was scuttled through a smear campaign against me and
against this decent man that he probably never imagined possible.
The Los Angeles Times did correctly report my comment that JFK was
involved in a fierce battle with Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
over Israel's efforts to build a nuclear arsenal. The young reporter, Mike
Granberry, had asked me specifically (and it was a good question, needless
to say): "My editors want to know why you think that Israel would be
opposed to John F. Kennedy?" So I told him and he reported my response.
What the Times did not report was that I had additionally noted that
upon JFK's death U.S. policy toward Israel under Lyndon Johnson did a
complete and immediate 180-degree turnabout and that—most importantly—
Israel's nuclear bomb program went forward unimpeded.
As I told the Times (but which was not reported): "Although there is
some debate about whether or not the U.S. would have remained involved
in Vietnam had JFK lived, there is absolutely no doubt whatsoever about
the drastic reversal in U.S. Middle East policy from which Israel was the
prime beneficiary." I pointed out to the Times that four prominent authors,
Seymour Hersh, Stephen Green and Andrew and Leslie Cockburn, wrote
extensively about JFK's policy toward Israel and that I relied almost
exclusively upon their findings.
I did not say, as the Times further reported, that I disputed the muchreported
figure that "six million Jews" died at the hands of the Nazis, nor
did I ever once allude to claims that the figure is actually much lower.
What I said was this: "First of all, my book is about the JFK assassination. It
has nothing to do with the Holocaust. The JFK assassination took place in 1963.
The Holocaust ended in 1945. My views on what did or did not take place
during the Holocaust have nothing to do with my book on the JFK
assassination. It is another subject altogether.
"As far as the numbers are concerned," I pointed out, "I have heard the
figure of Six Million all of my life. You can't turn around without reading
something about it in the press all of the time. However," I added, "in recent
years, some Jewish historians have claimed that the figure is as high as
seven million or even eight million. So I don't know what the figure is."
(For an example of such a claim that the figure may be as high as seven
million, see the ever-august Washington Post of November 20, 1996, the
issue of the highly reputable Jerusalem Post for the week ending November