Final_Judgment

496 The Battle of the Books [399]
SEYMOUR HERSH
Forget about who killed John F. Kennedy and why. Instead, you should
focus on JFK's personal peccadilloes. That's the message being put forth by
the controlled media in this country in the wake of the release of Seymour
Hersh's new book, The Dark Side of Camelot. Those who haven't heard
about Hersh's book attacking the character of John F. Kennedy, were not
reading the mainstream press at the time of the 34th anniversary of the JFK
assassination. The book was being promoted everywhere—including a cover
story on the November 17 issue of Time magazine.
The reviews—and even the article in Time—unanimously suggested
there are questions about Hersh's credibility, but even these reviews had the
impact of putting out so many "negatives" about JFK that readers almost
automatically assume that "where's there's smoke, there's fire."
What really is so new about Hersh's book? Nothing, actually. Dozens—
perhaps hundreds—of other books have talked about Kennedy family links
to the mob, JFK's womanizing, etc. Time itself points out (quite correctly)
that since the 1970's there have been a vast number of books doing what
Hersh's book does: "debunking JFK."
So why then the push to take another look at JFK's misdeeds? We all
have heard about the Kennedy family's antics—the subject of endless media
coverage for nearly thirty years. It's been that way ever since Mark Lane
started asking questions about who really killed John F. Kennedy and why.
Lane's book, Rush to Judgment, opened up some real problems for the
people who orchestrated the JFK assassination and cover-up. The response
by the "big media" has been to try to say, "Well, John F. Kennedy wasn't
really such a good guy after all." (Suggesting that maybe he deserved to be
shot, or, at the least, that he set the stage for his own demise.) And then
when in Plausible Denial Lane documented the CIA's link to the
assassination, the powers-that-be determined that conspiracy theories about
the assassination had to be contained. Those theories that are "acceptable"
say that "the Mafia did it" and place blame on long-dead mobsters.
Time magazine, which is promoting the new "debunking" of JFK, is
owned by the mega-rich Bronfman family. And, of course, as documented in
Final Judgment, a henchman of the Bronfman family, Louis M. Bloomfield,
was a key player in the JFK assassination conspiracy.
What about Hersh? It was Hersh's book, The Samson Option, which
first exposed that JFK had been engaged in a long-hidden behind-the-scenes
war with Israel's Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, over Israel's effort to
build a nuclear bomb. Final Judgment cites Hersh's work
extensively—much to the dismay of those who want to keep Israel's war
with JFK a deep dark secret from the admirers of President Kennedy.
But here's something very interesting: The November 1997 issue of
Vanity Fair magazine revealed that Hersh worked closely with Michael
Ewing, who was involved in the 1978 House Assassinations Committee
investigation into the president's murder. As noted here in Final Judgment,