Vindicated of What?

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(03-16-2015 08:27 PM)Thomas Thorne Wrote:  This is only a novel and I should not get too excited but....

Once again a starving author gives a conspiracy crazed public what it wants in hopes of healthy remuneration.

I have always been intrigued by the idea espoused by this book of multi generational conspiracies. Instead of in this case just destroying all documentation showing it wasn't JWB who was killed at the Garret barn, the original conspirators loving bequeathed it to their successors in total confidence that they would in turn entrust the information to their successors inviolate and secret till the end of time.

Many years ago I read a book which claimed that the US government had rescued Czar Nicholas II and his family from execution by the Bolsheviks. I don't remember why the US government would do so, why it would it seek to cover up the information forever or think it could given peoples proclivity to gossip. The author was unduly impressed by the "fact" that a book called "Rescuing the Czar" was missing from the New York Public Library.

The author claimed he confronted and rebuked then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for continuing the cover up. I don't believe any of this but you can imagine the dressing down Kissinger would have given his security people for permitting a nut to approach him.
Tom

All the various conspiracy theories on a variety of subjects are amazing, aren't they Tom? I remember years ago, while we Boothies were fighting back one or two of these, that Frank Hebblethwaite of the National Park Service at Ford's Theatre very seriously asked how anyone who had lived or worked around Washington, D.C. could ever believe that a secret could be kept for one minute - let alone a hundred years...