COUNTERPUNCH LETTERS : Warren Report Doubts

Re Richard M. Mosk’s Counterpunch, “Warren Commission Report Is Proving True” (Nov. 29), isn’t it curious that the leading opponents of any conspiracy theories happen to be either former Warren Commission staffers or government representatives?

I was 14 when the school principal came into our class and made the announcement that was forever to sour the idealism of our time. Then we were told that the purpose of the Warren Commission was to find any evidence of a conspiracy or a cover-up in President Kennedy’s murder, but, to the public, it seemed as if their sole aim was to discount and disprove any and all possibilities.

We were obviously lied to.

The fact is that something happened and then the Warren Commission asked us not to believe our own eyes and ears. Thirty years later, we are no longer naive, idealistic kids fresh out of the ‘50s in our crew cuts, penny loafers and patriotic smiles.

So, Mr. Mosk, I would really like to tell you, the other members of the Warren Commission and all of the people in the government who were involved that, whether it was for our own good or for the sake of national security, while purporting to represent us, the people, don’t ever try anything like that again.

ARNIE VELAZQUEZ, Venice

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No, Mr. Mosk, it is not Americans sitting back and letting others form their opinions for them that is the cause of so much doubt. These doubts stem from society’s unease at discovering that their own innocent but decidedly adult questions have been evaded, ignored or manipulated by the two official but thoroughly unsatisfactory investigations.

P. S. THOMPSON, Santa Monica