These individuals included, among others, former FBI agent GuyBannister, CIA asset David Ferrie and local businessman Clay Shaw. His mother moved often (from Louisiana to Texas to New York) and by the time he graduated high school Oswald had attended 12 different schools. after graduating from shawnee, i started a cute and cozily funded path toward a history PhD, but i discovered that Mark Mirabello types were pretty hard to come by among the academic rank-and-file. you would think coming out on this tiny conspiracy-minded publisher would mean there’s some interesting stuff among a lot of crank stuff (kind of how i found sinister forces) but it’s very sober and never advances any wacky conclusions, it just puts the pieces out there and lets you interpret them for yourself. He later explained that as a child, "I would escape my ugly reality by pretending that I was living with a television family, and there was no yelling at home or no one to hit me.

It doesn't present any alternative theories or meaningfully challenge the Lone Wolf angle that McVeigh and many others so eagerly want to canonize. Much of the information was interspersed haphazardly and failed to create a storyline that was cohesive. During his trial, his defense attorneys argued that Bremer was schizophrenic, legally insane and had "no emotional capacity to understand anything;" but prosecutors argued otherwise and said that, while perhaps the man was disturbed, he knew what he was doing when he attempted to kill Wallace and had done so to get attention, even calculating his arrest and subsequent media coverage of his trial.The packages contained his 35,000-word manifesto entitled Industrial Society and Its Future, commonly referred to as the "Unabomber Manifesto. Students complained about his teaching style, told administrators that he was very nervous in a teaching environment and said he sometimes stuttered and mumbled during lectures.

I would respect that last element if she ever took the time to isolate a narrative and outline a thesis. Although one of his commanding officers described him as a "very competent" crew chief and "brighter than most people," Oswald expressed pro-Soviet sentiments and on a number of occasions was court-martialed, once for accidently shooting himself in the elbow with a handgun he was not authorized to possess and another time for fighting with a sergeant.

To her credit, Painting doesn’t really go down the tinfoil hat rabbit hole and explores (mostly) more plausible ways in which the official OKC narrative doesn’t fit the facts. Was Tim McVeigh a Manchurian Candidate who was the byproduct of MKUltra-style mental and physical manipulation that stripped him of agency?

Well, it’s a reference to Don DeLillo’s classic conspiracy-filled novel Libra which is a fictionalized account of Lee Harvey Oswald’s life leading up to JFK’s death. also w/r/t literary merit it weirdly reminded me of the nick tosches bio of dean martin, where it takes a central subject (mcveigh in this case) who is just a total black hole, an unknowable void of contradictions, and builds a book out of everything surrounding him to explain capital-A America. More attracted to the idea of killing Nixon, on April 11 of that year, Bremer traveled to Ottawa, Canada where Nixon was making a public appearance but decided against killing him due to the high level of security there. It delves incredibly deep into not just the perpetrator, but to those who knew him in some fashion to varying degrees. There are truths across the entire spectrum of stories, and settling on one of them would be dishonest.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. there are a ton of long digressions into other subjects like the gulf war, mkultra, the militia movement, UFOs and etc but they’re essential for understanding the period as a whole. Instead she improbably tries to maintain five theories at once, largely because, despite the more fantastical schizoid ideations tellingly lacking in tangible evidence, she can not bring herself to simply cast them aside.