01-10-2013, 07:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-10-2013, 07:50 AM by Joseph McBride.)
Thanks, Anthony. So what did the great Penn Jones Jr. have
to say about Ron Rosenbaum?
Edgar Tatro wrote a passionate attack on Rosenbaum
and defense of Penn (entitled "WHO ----- IS RON ROSENBAUM?) after Rosenbaum mocked
Penn in his 1983 Texas Monthly article on researchers, "Oswald's Ghost."
Penn published Tatro's article in his newsletter The Continuing Inquiry
for January 22, 1984 (as Casey Stengel used to say, "You
could look it up"; it's in Penn's papers at http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm...es/id/1618), adding this comment:
"We are proud to count Edgar Tatro as a friend, and grateful to him
for his answer to Ron Rosenbaum. We have long known this is an
impossible fight. Tatro knows it too. But we loved this democracy; we
hated to see it die. We continue to try to tell the truth as we see it -- and
as the evidence indicates. There has never been a shortage of prostitutes -- both
those who use beds, and the more deadly ones who use typewriters.
"The first ones can be avoided, but if you publish off the chosen line, you must
expect to encounter the second kind. And it is the second kind who are most deadly
to a democracy. I think it is safe to say Ron Rosenbaum falls in this category.
"In this fast falling lost world nowadays -- the bravest people are the ones who
choose to tell the truth. Our decadent society must surely reach its peak soon,
and we owe it all to [the] likes of sold-out traitors to democracy such as
Ron Rosenbaum.
"So we thank you, Edgar Tatro, for the fine factual article. In this country
now built on lies -- we are happy to present some truth."
That's the eloquent Penn I knew and loved.
I have to add, though, that some admiration for Penn (grudging, perhaps) seems
to seep through Rosenbaum's article, as how could it not for anyone
who met him. And Rosenbaum elicited from Penn my favorite
and the wisest of all his quotes.
Rosenbaum asked Penn why he thought the military had killed
Kennedy, "Because they thought he'd withdraw from Vietnam? Or --"
And Penn replied, "Shit, no. So they could take over."
to say about Ron Rosenbaum?
Edgar Tatro wrote a passionate attack on Rosenbaum
and defense of Penn (entitled "WHO ----- IS RON ROSENBAUM?) after Rosenbaum mocked
Penn in his 1983 Texas Monthly article on researchers, "Oswald's Ghost."
Penn published Tatro's article in his newsletter The Continuing Inquiry
for January 22, 1984 (as Casey Stengel used to say, "You
could look it up"; it's in Penn's papers at http://digitalcollections.baylor.edu/cdm...es/id/1618), adding this comment:
"We are proud to count Edgar Tatro as a friend, and grateful to him
for his answer to Ron Rosenbaum. We have long known this is an
impossible fight. Tatro knows it too. But we loved this democracy; we
hated to see it die. We continue to try to tell the truth as we see it -- and
as the evidence indicates. There has never been a shortage of prostitutes -- both
those who use beds, and the more deadly ones who use typewriters.
"The first ones can be avoided, but if you publish off the chosen line, you must
expect to encounter the second kind. And it is the second kind who are most deadly
to a democracy. I think it is safe to say Ron Rosenbaum falls in this category.
"In this fast falling lost world nowadays -- the bravest people are the ones who
choose to tell the truth. Our decadent society must surely reach its peak soon,
and we owe it all to [the] likes of sold-out traitors to democracy such as
Ron Rosenbaum.
"So we thank you, Edgar Tatro, for the fine factual article. In this country
now built on lies -- we are happy to present some truth."
That's the eloquent Penn I knew and loved.
I have to add, though, that some admiration for Penn (grudging, perhaps) seems
to seep through Rosenbaum's article, as how could it not for anyone
who met him. And Rosenbaum elicited from Penn my favorite
and the wisest of all his quotes.
Rosenbaum asked Penn why he thought the military had killed
Kennedy, "Because they thought he'd withdraw from Vietnam? Or --"
And Penn replied, "Shit, no. So they could take over."