Dershowitz on Kennedy Probe
I agree with Dershowitz that the assassination of President Kennedy should be investigated much more thoroughly than it was by the Warren Commission.
Dershowitz recalls the innocence of the ‘60s, his trust in government, compared to “the lies about Vietnam, the Watergate cover-up, and the Iran-Contra scandals.” When did he lose his innocence? In June, 1972, the time of the Watergate break-in? Was not the assassination of President Kennedy enough to shake his innocence? Vietnam did not begin with the “incursion” into Cambodia, the 1968 presidential campaign, the Tet offensive, or even the Tonkin Gulf Resolution of August, 1964.
Jack Anderson’s scenario is most interesting. It is quite a commentary on the “innocent” ’60s that President Johnson feared that the American people would demand retaliation against Cuba. I heartily agree with Dershowitz: It is high time we reopened the case. This time, let the investigators see all the evidence, including the medical documents locked up by President Johnson. Make it an investigation, a search for truth, not a prosecution of Lee Harvey Oswald alone, which the Warren Commission acknowledged itself as being.
LAWRENCE BERG
San Gabriel
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