Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History (59 page)

57
Note of June 28, 1937, published in Joseph E. Davies,
Mission to Moscow
, 161.

58
Cited in Roy Medvedev, “European Writers on Their Meetings with Stalin,”
Russian Politics and Law
, vol. 42, no. 5, 161.

59
Feuchtwanger, 128.

60
Service,
Lenin
, 361.

61
Getty and Naumov, 26.

62
Felix Chuyev,
Tak govoril Kaganovich
(Thus Spake Kaganovich), Moscow, 1992, cited at
http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdvln2/chuyev.htm
.

63
Time
, February 8, 1937.

3. Conspiracies to the Left

1
See It Now
, CBS Television, March 9, 1954.

2
Theodore Roosevelt, speech to the Gridiron Club, Washington, March 17, 1906.

3
Cited in Hugh Brogan,
The Penguin History of the United States
, 439.

4
Ibid., 542.

5
John T. Flynn,
As We Go Marching
, 252-53.

6
Smedley D. Butler, “I Was a Gangster for Capitalism,” speech, 1933.

7
Smedley D. Butler,
War Is a Racket
, 23.

8
Report of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry
, 3-13.

9
G. P. Nye, speech to the Mecca Temple, February 9, 1936.

10
Roosevelt, radio address, December 29, 1940.

11
J. T. Flynn, radio address, March 8, 1941.

12
War Is a Racket
, 49-50.

13
Ibid., 55.

14
Founding public statement of the America First Committee, September 4, 1940.

15
Lindbergh, speech, Des Moines, Idaho, September 11, 1941.

16
Charles Lindbergh,
The Wartime Journals of Charles Lindbergh
, September 18, 1941.

17
Ibid., October 4, 1941.

18
Ibid., December 8, 1941.

19
John T. Flynn,
The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor
, reproduced at
http://geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/flynnfs.html
.

20
Ibid.

21
Ibid.

22
Ibid.

23
Gore Vidal,
The Last Empire
, 260.

24
New York Review of Books
, May 17, 2001.

25
Harry Elmer Barnes,
Pearl Harbor After a Quarter of a Century
, cited in Gordon W. Prange,
At Dawn We Slept
, 841.

26
John Toland,
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and Its Aftermath
, 324.

27
Prange, 843.

28
Stephen E. Ambrose, “Writers on the Grassy Knoll,”
New York Times
, February 2, 1992.

29
Robert Stinnett,
Day of Deceit
, 5.

30
Stephen Budiansky, “Closing the Book on Pearl Harbor,”
Cryptologia
, vol. 24, issue 2, April 2000, 119-30.

31
Vidal, 265.

32
Adolf Hitler, speech to Reichstag, December 11, 1941.

33
H. E. Barnes, “Revisionism and the Promotion of Peace,” reprinted in the
Journal of Historical Review,
Spring 1982.

34
H. E. Barnes, “The Public Stake in Revisionism,”
Rampart Journal of Individualist Studies
, Summer 1967.

35
H. E. Barnes, “Zionist Fraud,”
American Mercury
, Fall 1968.

36
For what follows, see John E. Moser, “Gigantic Engines of Propaganda: The 1941 Investigation of Hollywood,”
The Historian
, Summer 2001.

37
Cited in Eric Bentley, ed.,
Thirty Years of Treason. Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968,
24-25.

38
David M. Oshinsky,
A Conspiracy So Immense
, 92.

39
Ibid., 140.

40
Ibid.

41
Cited ibid., 105.

42
Cited ibid., 83.

43
Cited ibid., 107.

44
Ibid., 109.

45
Ibid.

46
Senator Joseph McCarthy, speech to the United States Senate, June 14, 1951.

47
John T. Flynn,
The Decline of the American Republic and How to Rebuild It.

48
.
Oshinsky, 507.

49
Richard Hofstadter,
The Paranoid Style in American Politics
, 24.

50
Raymond Williams,
The County and the City
, 9-12.

51
Lawrence Levine, “Frank Capra’s America,”
The Journal for Multi-Media History
, vol. 2, 1999.

52
Hofstadter, 45.

53
H. E. Barnes, “The Public Stake in Revisionism.”

4. Dead Deities

1
Gerald Posner,
Case Closed
, 402.

2
Mark Lane, “Defense Brief for Oswald,”
National Guardian
, December 19, 1963.

3
Cited in I. F. Stone, “The Left and the Warren Commission Report,”
I. F. Stone’s Weekly
, vol. 13, no. 33, October 5, 1964.

4
Annie Hall
, director Woody Allen, 1977.

5
Bill Hicks,
Rant in E-Minor
, 1997.

6
Todd Gitlin,
The Sixties
, 311.

7
Richard H. Popkin, “The Second Oswald,”
New York Review of Books
, July 28, 1966.

8
Ibid.

9
Ibid.

10
Ibid.

11
Ibid.

12
I. F. Stone, “Report.”

13
Sid Blumenthal, ed.,
Government by Gunplay
, Foreword.

14
Ibid., 265.

15
Oglesby, 189.

16
James Di Eugenio and Lisa Pease, eds.,
The Assassinations
, 635.

17
Ibid., 639.

18
Evidence to the Warren Commission, cited in Posner,
Case Closed
, 113.

19
Warren Commission,
Exhibits
, vol. 16, 106-16.

20
Di Eugenio and Pease, 314. The most comprehensive history of the Kennedy assassination, debunking subsequent conspiracy theories, is Vincent Bugliosi’s massive 1,600-page
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2007)
.

21
.
For a full discussion of this, see Posner, chapters 11, 14, 19 and appendices; Vincent Bugliosi,
Reclaiming History
, 450-512.

22
John K. Lattimer, et al.,
Journal of the American College of Surgeons
, May 1994.

23
Peter Knight,
Conspiracy Culture
, 83.

24
Ibid., 87.

25
Irving Howe, “The Fate of the Union: Kennedy and After,”
New York Review of Books
, December 26, 1963.

26
Dwight MacDonald, ibid.

27
Andrew O’Hagan, “St. Marilyn,”
London Review of Books
, January 6, 1999.

28
Matthew Smith,
Victim
, 186.

29
Sarah Churchwell,
The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe
, 334.

30
Los Angeles Times
, August 5, 2005.

31
Anthony Summers, interview with Dan Abrams, MSNBC Television, August 8, 2005.

32
Ibid.

33
Seymour Hersh,
The Dark Side of Camelot
, 104-5.

34
Robert Sam Anson,
Vanity Fair
, November 1997.

35
New York Times
, September 27, 1997.

36
Smith, Foreword.

37
Churchwell, 328.

38
http://www.larouchepub.com/tv/index.html
.

39
Sunday Express
, June 23, 2002.

40
Gordon Thomas,
Gideon’s Spies
, 1.

41
Ibid., 17.

42
“Mugabe ‘Paid Israeli Spy to Frame Opposition Leader,’ ”
Independent
, July 10, 2002.

43
David Cohen,
Diana, Death of a Goddess
, 6.

44
Ibid., 219.

45
Ibid., 230.

46
Ibid., 237.

47
Ibid., 236.

48
http://www.cesnur.org/testi/Grace.htm
.

49
Richard and Judy
, Channel 4, June 15, 2005.

50
Umberto Eco,
Foucault’s Pendulum,
200.

51
. Who Killed Diana?
Sky One television, August 21, 2006.

52
Stephen Glover, “It Is No Longer Possible to Scoff at the Idea that Diana Was Murdered,”
Spectator
, October 25, 2003.

53
Colin Randall,
Daily Telegraph
blog, September 21, 2006.

54
Independent
, December 15, 2006.

55
Stephen Bates,
Guardian
, April 8, 2008.

56
Daniella Relph, February 13, 2008.

57
http://www.scottbaker-inquests.gov.uk
.

58
http://www.scottbaker-inquests.gov.uk/hearing_transcripts/230108pm.htm
.

59
“Princess DVDiana,”
Sunday Mirror
, May 25, 2008.

60
Truman Capote,
In Cold Blood
, 224.

61
Churchwell, 324.

62
Gitlin, 311.

5. A Very British Plot

1
Guardian
, March 21, 1994.

2
Judith Cook,
Unlawful Killing: The Murder of Hilda Murrell
, 18.

3
Ibid., 19-20.

4
Ibid., 13.

5
“Thatcher Makes Falklands Link Attack on ‘Enemy Within,’ ”
Times
, July 20, 1984.

6
20/20 Vision
, “MI5’s Official Secrets,” Channel 4, March 1985.

7
True Spies 3
, BBC2, September 2002.

8
True Spies 2
, “Something Better Change,” BBC2, September 2002.

9
David McKittrick et al.,
Lost Lives
, 973.