This installment will review Chapters 7-9 of Rob Reiner’s “Who Killed JFK?”Thanks for reading James’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
I got the impression that by insistently naming the shooters, and the names of the CIA personnel involved - as if identifying the shooters could lay to rest the case - Reiner tried to move away from the idea of a "coup d'état", a regime change operation or a state crime in favor of the "rogue agents" or " a few bad apples" angle. (A little like GW Bush did with CIA torture during his tenure.). The Warren Commission perpetuates the idea of Oswald as a "lone nut", Reiner of the conspirators as "disgruntled employees". As a liberal, which I assume he is, he needs the State to be fundamentally good, and he misses the political implications of a system that combines state power, underworld actors and the logic of imperialism. Oliver Stone or Peter Dale Scott have, in my opinion, a better understanding of what happened and what it means.
I got the impression that by insistently naming the shooters, and the names of the CIA personnel involved - as if identifying the shooters could lay to rest the case - Reiner tried to move away from the idea of a "coup d'état", a regime change operation or a state crime in favor of the "rogue agents" or " a few bad apples" angle. (A little like GW Bush did with CIA torture during his tenure.). The Warren Commission perpetuates the idea of Oswald as a "lone nut", Reiner of the conspirators as "disgruntled employees". As a liberal, which I assume he is, he needs the State to be fundamentally good, and he misses the political implications of a system that combines state power, underworld actors and the logic of imperialism. Oliver Stone or Peter Dale Scott have, in my opinion, a better understanding of what happened and what it means.
I agree with your assessment.
thanks.glad you listened to it so i wouldn't have it.whatever reiner's motivation in doing this i saw they did shady research at very least.
I wish I could have stayed on the project. I think I could have helped him.