Author Joan Mellen/Shadow Gov, JFK, 9/11 C-SPAN 2 NOW

[Ufomammut]

Tying some loose ends together, discussing her latest book, "A Farewell To Justice."

[Peace Patriot]

1. Please give us a few more hints about what she has to say. I don't have

easy access to C-Span--and not enough time right now.

[Ufomammut]

2. Well...

Just the terms "CIA," "Shadow government," "JFK," and "9/11" offer a clear impression. Specifically, she set out to write a biography of Jim Garrison, but ventured into the whole "shadow gov" thing, which largely relies on the various "alphabet" government agencies. She's also comparing the Warren Commission cover up with the 9/11 Commission's blatant white washing.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. basically she says JFK was a CIA hit

because he hated the CIA for all the secret ops etc, and he was trying to dismantle them. She also said they were the ones pushing the Bay of Pigs thing, and he held them back.
I'm googling for more info now... I haven't been able to pay attention to all of it.

A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History
Joan Mellen

Joan Mellen argues that the government's response to President John F. Kennedy's assassination was insufficient. In "A Farewell to Justice" the author draws on the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, which exposes contradictions in the Warren Report, to conclude that both the FBI and CIA were involved in the President's assassination. This event was hosted by the New York Society for Ethical Culture in New York City.

Joan Mellen is a professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author of seventeen books, including "Marilyn Monroe," "Kay Boyle: Author of Herself," and "Bob Knight: His Own Man." Ms. Mellen's writing has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Publisher: POTOMAC BOOKS 22841 Quicksilver Drive Dulles, VA 20166


BOOK TV Schedule March 11th - 13th
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x631484

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4. WHOOOHOOO! I found the transcript!

:)

LECTURE DELIVERED AT THE ETHICAL CULTURE SOCIETY, NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 24, 2006.

HOW THE FAILURE TO IDENTIFY, PROSECUTE AND CONVICT PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S ASSASSINS HAS LED TO TODAY’S CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY

BY

JOAN MELLEN
The last time I was in this room was for the memorial service of a distinguished American author, J. Anthony Lukas, who wrote “Common Ground,” about race and class in Boston. During the course of his career, Tony came into conflict with an institution that I will discuss this evening, “The New York Times.”
“A Farewell To Justice” is about the Kennedy assassination. It opens as a biography of Jim Garrison, district attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana, who remains the only public official ever to have brought anyone before the bar of justice for participation in the conspiracy to murder President Kennedy. Garrison assumed that role when he discovered that the person framed for the crime, a low-level intelligence agent named Lee Harvey Oswald, resided in his jurisdiction between April and September of 1963. The Biblical metaphor is inevitable: that great harlot city New Orleans, destroyed by flood, with, among its many sins, incubating the Kennedy assassination.
After his suspect Clay Shaw was acquitted, Shaw the man whom the new evidence reveals was a CIA operative guilty of participating in the implementation of the murder of President Kennedy, Garrison was asked how he imagined that he could convict someone of conspiracy in the murder of President Kennedy in a Louisiana state court. Garrison said: “I guess I thought I was living in the country I was born in.” He wasn’t and we aren’t.
I would like to suggest that the truth about the Kennedy assassination, far from being a matter of interest only to historians, and not even to most of them, will help us understand how we have arrived at a point where people as respectable as New York attorney Martin Garbus are comparing the current U.S. government with the rise of fascism in the mid-twentieth century. It’s my belief that the present state of our political culture is a direct result of the fact that those responsible for the murder of President Kennedy have never been brought to justice.
To sum up: “A Farewell To Justice” suggests that the clandestine service of the CIA not only covered up the truth about the Kennedy assassination - that’s easy to demonstrate from the four million documents now residing at the National Archives - but organized the event itself. That the CIA escaped without penalty, this extraordinary fact, has been integrated over these forty-two years into the body politic. It has produced a political culture where the unthinkable has become accepted practice. Meaningful freedom of the press has fallen into serious jeopardy.

the rest is here - http://lawanddisorder.org/?page_id=62