Oswald's Ghost

[Spindrift]

Just saw a trailer for the PBS show "Oswald's Ghost" which is being aired in a few minutes.

It was Dan Rather saying "Sometimes conspiracy theories turn out to be true."

Not sure of the context and I hope this is a fair presentation not some CT BS.

 

[Gravy]

I was just about to post the same, but I was busy looking for Johnny Unitas memorabilia and that original copy of "Tamerlane" I know I have somewhere. I strongly doubt that American Experience will give Oswald the woo treatment. I do expect some good explanations of why such conspiracy theories persist.

 

[Unfit4Command]

I saw this post just in time. The movie is just starting. This should be interesting since I know very little about the JFK conspiracy theories.

 

[Gravy]

I thought Mailer was quite good.

 

[Slayhamlet]

I was just about to post the same, but I was busy looking for Johnny Unitas memorabilia and that original copy of "Tamerlane" I know I have somewhere. I strongly doubt that American Experience will give Oswald the woo treatment. I do expect some good explanations of why such conspiracy theories persist.

The Poe poem?

 

[332nd]

I was just about to post the same, but I was busy looking for Johnny Unitas memorabilia and that original copy of "Tamerlane" I know I have somewhere. I strongly doubt that American Experience will give Oswald the woo treatment. I do expect some good explanations of why such conspiracy theories persist.

[OT] You have an original copy of Tamerlane!?!??! I sit in awe.[/OT]

 

[Spindrift]

I thought Mailer was quite good.

Yes. He basically said, I really wanted there to be a conspiracy, but after looking at everything there wasn't any evidence for one.

This differs from the average CTer:

I really wanted there to be a conspiracy, in spite of there being no evidence for one, I still believe there is one.

 

[PhantomWolf]

Was that Norman Mailer?

 

[alexg]

Yes. He basically said, I really wanted there to be a conspiracy, but after looking at everything there wasn't any evidence for one.

This differs from the average CTer:

I really wanted there to be a conspiracy, in spite of there being no evidence for one, I still believe there is one.

Just give the punks 40 years to think about it and they will slowly come to Mailer's realization. The young CTs are like incipient crack addicts in the first stage of the relationship. Only time can turn them.

 

[Stellafane]

Oswald's ghost, huh? That gives me an idea: why doesn't some medium contact Oswald and simply ask him if he did it?

Granted, it's not the method I'd usually recommend to investigate a problem. But heck, we're talking conspiracies here, so making up stuff out of thin air is just par for the course. Fight fire with fire, I always say...

 

[Gravy]

The Poe poem?

Yes.

[OT] You have an original copy of Tamerlane!?!??! I sit in awe.[/OT]

No, I was joking. "Antiques Roadshow" was on PBS here before "Oswald's Ghost," and a Johnny Unitas championship jacket and Poe memorabilia were discussed. One of the original Tamerlane booklets might go for $1 million.

 

[Gravy]

Was that Norman Mailer?

Yes, and speaking from the grave!

 

[PhantomWolf]

Yes, and speaking from the grave!

I have his account of Apollo 11 sitting on the chair beside my bed, and have for about the last 6 months. I swear it's a harder read than the Silmarillion.

 

[332nd]

Yes.

No, I was joking. "Antiques Roadshow" was on PBS here before "Oswald's Ghost," and a Johnny Unitas championship jacket and Poe memorabilia were discussed. One of the original Tamerlane booklets might go for $1 million.

Aw dammit. Yeah I know, thus the awe. I thought maybe a great great granddad or such had passed on such a treasure. I got excited because my cousin just started his 2nd semester at Univ. Texas at Austin and mentioned their "Gutenberg Bible". I love stuff like that.

 

[Brainster]

I was just about to post the same, but I was busy looking for Johnny Unitas memorabilia and that original copy of "Tamerlane" I know I have somewhere. I strongly doubt that American Experience will give Oswald the woo treatment. I do expect some good explanations of why such conspiracy theories persist.

Didn't see the show, but I expect like several of the conspiracy theories we see around here, the focus is not so much on the actual event itself, but what happened as a result of it. The Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories started gaining currency around 1968, and what was going on then? Protests against the Vietnam war. I suspect that the reason for the popularity of the Kennedy conspiracy theories was the belief that JFK would not have gotten us so involved in Southeast Asia. I was active in the antiwar movement of the time and can tell you that most of the older folks found this belief naive at best.