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   From: jeff_c10@hotmail.com   
      
   ensuing investigations did everything   
   they could to protect the true murderers; to hell with the   
   victims. And since the Church Committee showed in public that the   
   Kennedys were not business as usual, there has been an intense   
   and incessant effort to reverse that verdict; in essence to   
   rewrite history. People like Slatzer, Davis, and now Hersh have   
   made their living off of it.   
      
   The Kennedys themselves deserve part of the blame. In Samuels'   
   article in The New Yorker, Kennedy family lawyer Myer Feldman   
   says that he advised the Kennedys not to even comment on Hersh,   
   let alone sue (p. 69). If I were advising, I would have urged a   
   lawsuit as far back as 1984 with both the Collier-Horowitz book   
   and the Davis book. I would have loved to hear how the two former   
   leftists had no idea that Priscilla Johnson was associated with   
   the CIA, had tied up Marina Oswald for years, and then issued a   
   tract on both Oswald and the assassination that James Angleton   
   himself would have written. I would have also loved to hear Davis   
   explain how he could have completely misrepresented the Church   
   Committee report to his readers. I would also like to ask him how   
   many people he thought would read the actual report versus how   
   many would pick up the paperback version of his book (which   
   features a blurb by Liz Smith). To me what these authors have   
   done at least suggests the "reckless disregard" rubric of the   
   libel statute.   
      
   To be fair to the Kennedys, it is hard to castigate a family   
   which has sustained so many tragedies. Andy Harland called up   
   Steve Jones after reading his article in The Humanist (Probe Vol.   
      
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