Justice for JFK

[coalition_unwilling]

277. Fair enough. Another thought that occurred to me after I posted is that the WCR was

a product of multiple authors\editors and so one might expect a profusion of 'voices' even within a single paragraph. The technical term for this type of multi-author piece is a 'Cento,' I believe. It's entirely possible that Author\Editor A (we'll call him or her) was tasked with documenting\summarizing Truly's and Patrolman Baker's steps, while Author/Editor B (perhaps a staff with some literary pretensions) was tasked with depicting the figure of LHO. The two tasks are then mashed together into a single paragraph and presided over by 'Editor C' (someone with a great sense of grammar but a less refined literary aesthetic.)

I have done no inquiry whatsoever into the writing\editing of the WCR -- textual criticism has always struck me as a surefire cure for insomnia -- so I am backing off my earlier 'miscarriage of justice' comment and am now back where I started with, I hope, an open mind. I have always fantasized myself in the role of an all-powerful defense attorney, a la Perry Mason, so that may explain my overly hasty reaction last night.

Even if one is a firm CT person (I am not), one should give you (and Zappaman) credit for the enormous amount of time and care you have invested in this thread. I am thinking how this thread would look and read were it in Yahoo or FaceBook and I shudder at the thought of it. This thread, and your contributions thereto, epitomize what I so dearly love about DU, that climate of free-spirited and wide-ranging inquiry and debate.