Collection of Assorted Newspaper and Magazine Clippings: Jfk Assassination, Conspiracy Theories, Etc

Read from the scan by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word.

Finally, it should be said that, despite the pitfalls, he loads us into, despite the dangers, or simple discomfort, the conspiracy theorist seems to understand least his own importance. The paranoid contribution to decision must always have been great, integral to process, a noise and a clamor keeping lawmakers from slumbering in tow.

Unable to endure slow motion, the mind of the conspiracy theorist is likewise unable to endure uncertainty. We may never know more than we know now of the truth of our several major political assassinations. We may know all that exists to be known, or we may be in the presence of a mystery. Not all crimes are solved, as they are on television.

eas act of one person. Above all, it ignores the possibility of that mixture of accident and intention that is finally process. We are process. We are complexity. We are the products of our minds, singly and collectively.

The trouble with the mind of the conspiracy theorist left or right is its inability to carry more than one idea at once. It asks laws or principles governing all events, as if human affairs were motions of dumb bobies, but it ignores the one law that might serve the idea that some things might be true upon some occasions

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Colleges and universities, partly under their own financial pressures, partly in the spirit of democratic participation, increasingly view the student as a customer and give him "what he wants," which is likely to be an easier, simpler interpretation of events and a better grade for mastering less. But the best defense against a paranoid citizenry may be a sound education in the grammar of those disciplines, which fortify the mind against trickery.

which death sentences are pronounced by "somebody, somewhere, in some smoke-lit back room," just as the conspiracy theorists say they are

News and drama alike focus upon individuals, seidom upon complicated forces or processes. It is: therefore, natural that young people and others whose experience is limited inevitably interpret events as the result of the actions of powerful individuals. Almost every crisis of television drama is resolved by gunfire or other violence, and every crisis of diplomacy is resolved by the meeting somewhere of powerful persons prince

In a great deal of popular drama, especially on television, the line between fiction and non-fiction is badly blurred. If not erased; news is made dramatic and exciting. drama is made to sound true, authentic, factu-

deal with the ooekk and witchcraft, extrasensory perception, magic, UFOs, self-defense, science fiction. The university lecture series is a form of popular entertainment, whose spokemen now and then proudly toodma reckless conspiracy theory even while they support those tendencies that feed it.

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Establishment believes." No persons exist named They, as in "They won't let the truth come out." For the college generation, suspended between childhood, "They are systematically destroying the evidence."

Cally destroying the evidence. In adulthood, the yearning to hear the truth is all the more affecting in view of the difficulties of telling it Truth is not specific and definite like The Guinness Book of World Records an extremely popular book among college students as a matter of fact the truth may be dull, complicated and shredded with qualifications more like the slow roundabout equivocations of older professors. It is not surprising, therefore, that the public lectures students attend. the books they optionally read and the media they consume tend to be those which deliver, abore all, straight answers in a positive sound. Mind and body/yearn to hear it from the inside from someone who was there who can therefore, presumably, tell it like

The language and literature of our country theory, left and right, is a privilege of logical fallacy. "Sworn testimony is not necessarily true. In reality, an article in the Congressional record is not necessarily true. An identification of someone by someone else is not necessarily accurate—even if the identification is made by such a grand sounding character as "the Internal Security Committee of the Senate of the United States." Hearsay is not necessarily true. Sarcasm is poor attribution. Name calling is poor attribution. Characterization is poor

The explanation of paranoia is that it is an old political and psychological and anyone can do it without objectives are sufficiently present. Orators of conspiracy are present. Why not? They are determined by doubts, hesitations in absence of facts. They have once their theories. They in reality nothing, retract nothing and tribbing. They charge accusation by means of con-firm person to person. The connections may be irreven if true. They are masked definitions build into formular and certain to con- with the ready-made assumptions of their intentions.

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America the great danger of conspiracy theory lies in its weakness of determination. Thus, it is available for widespread execution of activities. The worst of conspiracy is not that backstars may be that conferences on matters than prepare education, if where past shall be warped and nobody will remember we are in significant ways a free choice in our opinion, by conscious conduct than by those defects of education and media which conspiracy theories possible in this place.

Real congratulations have occurred. Historical circumstances are comparable. Historical theory explains why the momentum or acceleration of history explains a great

the attempt to kill Gov. George C. Warner was a conspiracy . . . a Communist conspiracy. It could well involve agents of Communist China. And the Central intelligence Agency that have had something to do with it there are the facts. Judge for Warner, Bremer was no "jone writes. Stang, providing that opinions relating to Bremer's claims to have "gone into the investigation for the facts," all the facts appear to be nothing in what one may obtain from the press and the newspapers, as a matter of fact obtained the facts of

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