17-08-2011, 11:13 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-08-2011, 04:22 AM by Charles Drago.)
Actually Bill, as I recall it you buttonholed me after Vince's speech, and propelled me back toward where he was surrounded by a cluster of admirers. We waited patiently for the coast to clear and had a brief chat. Got the speech copies, etc etc.
I think you wanted his input on your grand jury idea.
Without trying to sound overly-dramatic, if you had not insisted I accompany you I would not have wound up writing my book. I'm not the type to impose myself on others without a good reason. (That's not to suggest you were being pushy.) So you get a certain amount of credit or blame; I'm not sure which. I have acknowledged that elsewhere, perhaps on this forum or on a similar forum which shall remain nameless but it bears repeating, since I omitted that detail in the book's Intro.
And now I'm being reminded of something else. A couple of days ago Jim Douglass left a message on my phone machine. He wonders whether I know of a survey he dimly recalls, done back in the 1960s, asking a number of prominent Americans their views on the JFK assassination. One of those asked was Thomas Merton, who responded that there had been a conspiracy.
I don't know of this survey. I Googled "Thomas Merton JFK" and variant keywords, but the only hits I get are to Jim's book.
Does anyone know what he might be referring to?
Although now that I think about it a little more, I have a photocopy of an article from FACT magazine (or something like that), which put that question to a number of prominent types. I don't recall Merton being among them, but I could be wrong. I'll have to dig it out.
I still haven't returned Jim's call. Shame on me. It's been four or five days. I'm on it now.
EDITED BY CHARLES DRAGO -- REPETITIVE QUOTES REMOVED -- John, et al, please see my editorial comment attached to Bill Kelly's post below. -- CD
I think you wanted his input on your grand jury idea.
Without trying to sound overly-dramatic, if you had not insisted I accompany you I would not have wound up writing my book. I'm not the type to impose myself on others without a good reason. (That's not to suggest you were being pushy.) So you get a certain amount of credit or blame; I'm not sure which. I have acknowledged that elsewhere, perhaps on this forum or on a similar forum which shall remain nameless but it bears repeating, since I omitted that detail in the book's Intro.
And now I'm being reminded of something else. A couple of days ago Jim Douglass left a message on my phone machine. He wonders whether I know of a survey he dimly recalls, done back in the 1960s, asking a number of prominent Americans their views on the JFK assassination. One of those asked was Thomas Merton, who responded that there had been a conspiracy.
I don't know of this survey. I Googled "Thomas Merton JFK" and variant keywords, but the only hits I get are to Jim's book.
Does anyone know what he might be referring to?
Although now that I think about it a little more, I have a photocopy of an article from FACT magazine (or something like that), which put that question to a number of prominent types. I don't recall Merton being among them, but I could be wrong. I'll have to dig it out.
I still haven't returned Jim's call. Shame on me. It's been four or five days. I'm on it now.
EDITED BY CHARLES DRAGO -- REPETITIVE QUOTES REMOVED -- John, et al, please see my editorial comment attached to Bill Kelly's post below. -- CD