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for the conclusions the Commission reached, and their
rejection of the various contrary theories which had been
advanced.
Despite all these lotions of love, neither The Washington Post nor
Rostow mentioned was that it was Rostow himself who was the first person
to suggest to President Johnson that such a commission as the Warren
Commission be established!
As noted previously, Rostow and the Post were able to get away with
this fraud at the time, at least, for Rostow's pivotal role in the creation of the
Warren Commission was not detailed in any substance until many years
after the JFK assassination. But it does say a lot about the way the press
does promote the "official" line on the JFK assassination, particularly when
we consider Rostow's high-level role in the Israeli lobby in America which
does have such considerable influence on the American media.
This is relevant here, for as we've pointed out, there has been a
concerted effort by the Israeli lobby to suppress Final Judgment at the same
time the major media in America have been determined—as far as is
possible—not to give the thesis of this book any more airing than necessary.
In fact, a recent controversy surrounding Final Judgment brought the
book's thesis back into the mainstream, and it also bared a strenuous
(although failed) effort to refute the theory of the book itself.
La AFFAIRE SCHAUMBURG
For the first five months of the year 2000 the otherwise quiet Chicago
suburb of Schaumburg was wracked by a stormy debate over censorship
and freedom of speech and centered on Final Judgment, recalling the row
that raged for over a year in Orange County, California (described in the
foreword) after I was invited to speak about my book at a college seminar
on he JFK assassination.
The Schaumburg frenzy began in January when a local library patron,
Christopher Bollyn, was so impressed with the book that he tied to donate
a copy to the Schaumburg Township District Library (STDL). He felt the
book would be an admirable addition to the library which already had
multiple copies of a Gerald Posner's widely-promoted book which says
there was "no conspiracy" and which echoes the Warren Commission
Report's long-discredited theory that Lee Harvey Oswald was a "lone nut."
Bollyn's endorsement was significant: trained in Middle Fast studies,
and a former resident of Israel (where he was married to an Israeli woman)
Bollyn is fluent in Hebrew and Arabic. In addition, his late mother was one
of the library's founders, his wife was a volunteer at the library, and Bollyn
himself had actually worked at the library as a young man
Still, the library rejected he donation, saying it could find no
"professional" reviews of the book. I daresay, however, that if the librarians
had checked for a review of the Warren Commission Report, they would
have found the one by Eugene Rostow in the Washington Post. That I