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On JFK, Joyce Carol Oates blames the victim

On JFK, Joyce Carol Oates blames the victim

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Jefferson Morley
Nov 21, 2016
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In an essay for The Washington Post, prolific novelist Joyce Carol Oates opines that the real problem in the aftermath of the assassination of President Kennedy was not the government's implausible and mendacious account of the crime but the confused and outraged response of the American majority that could not--and does not--believe it.

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