A civil rights sidebar: In the view of lawyer & 2014 MacArthur recipient John Henneberger, who is a close colleague of my spouse’s in the struggle for affordable housing, the Fair Housing Act was signed by Johnson as a direct response to the assassination of MLK. In other words, it seemed a propitiously timed action to quell tension in the African American community.
Counterpunch is at it again, smearing President Kennedy on civil rights, Indochina and the economy. We correct the record on all three.
Every once in a long while, Counterpunch will run a decent enough story on the JFK case by someone like Jeff Morley. {{HEY!}} More often the material they run is pretty much useless, and at times, worse than that. This is probably due to the legacy of the late Alexander Cockburn who teamed with Jeffrey St. Clair to edit the ‘zine. Back in 1991, Cockburn took up arms to attack Oliver Stone’s feature film JFK.
For the 60th anniversary, Counterpunch was at it again. On two consecutive days, they ran very questionable articles that can only be called smears of President Kennedy. The first was by Howard Lisnoff on December 6th and the second was by Binoy Kampmark on December 7th.
A civil rights sidebar: In the view of lawyer & 2014 MacArthur recipient John Henneberger, who is a close colleague of my spouse’s in the struggle for affordable housing, the Fair Housing Act was signed by Johnson as a direct response to the assassination of MLK. In other words, it seemed a propitiously timed action to quell tension in the African American community.
Tuesday, 19 December 2023 10:11
Counterpunch is at it Again
Written by James DiEugenio
Counterpunch is at it again, smearing President Kennedy on civil rights, Indochina and the economy. We correct the record on all three.
Every once in a long while, Counterpunch will run a decent enough story on the JFK case by someone like Jeff Morley. {{HEY!}} More often the material they run is pretty much useless, and at times, worse than that. This is probably due to the legacy of the late Alexander Cockburn who teamed with Jeffrey St. Clair to edit the ‘zine. Back in 1991, Cockburn took up arms to attack Oliver Stone’s feature film JFK.
For the 60th anniversary, Counterpunch was at it again. On two consecutive days, they ran very questionable articles that can only be called smears of President Kennedy. The first was by Howard Lisnoff on December 6th and the second was by Binoy Kampmark on December 7th.
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