- Lebeau, Caroline.
Les nouvelles preuves
sur l'assassinat de J. F. Kennedy.
Monaco: Éditions du Rocher, 2003.
ISBN 2-268-04915-9.
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If you don't live in Europe, you may not be fully aware just
how deranged the Looney Left can be in their hatred of Western
civilisation, individual liberty, and the United States in
particular. This book, from the same publisher who included
a weasel-word disclaimer in each copy of Oriana Fallaci's
La Force de la Raison
(December 2004),
bears, on its cover, in 42 point white type on a red
background, the subtitle
«Le clan Bush est-il coupable?»—“Is
the Bush clan guilty?” This book was prominently displayed
in French language bookstores in 2004.
The rambling narrative and tangled illogic finally pile
up to give an impression reminiscent of the JFK assassination
headline in
The
Onion's
Our Dumb Century:
“Kennedy Slain by CIA, Mafia, Castro, Teamsters, Freemasons”.
Lebeau declines to implicate the Masons, but fleshes out
the list, adding
multinational corporations, defence contractors, the Pentagon,
Khrushchev, anti-Casto Cuban exiles, a cabal
within the Italian army (I'm not making this up—see
pp. 167–168), H.L. Hunt, Richard Nixon, J. Edgar Hoover,
the mayor of Dallas … and the
Bush family, inter alia. George W. Bush,
who was 17 years old at the time, is not accused of being a
part of the «énorme complot», but his father
is, based essentially on the deduction: “Kennedy was killed in
Dallas. Dallas is in Texas. George H. W. Bush lived in Texas
at the time—guilty, guilty, guilty!”
“Independent investigative journalist” Lebeau is so meticulous
in her “investigations” that she confuses JFK's older brother's
first and middle names, misspells Nixon's middle name, calls the
Warren Report the product of a Republican administration, confuses
electoral votes with Senate seats, consistently misspells “grassy knoll”,
thinks a “dum-dum” bullet is explosive, that Gerald Ford was an
ex-FBI agent, and confuses H. L. Hunt and E. Howard Hunt on the
authority of “journalist” Mumia Abu-Jamal, not noting that
he is a convicted cop killer. Her studies in economics permit her
to calculate (p. 175) that out of a total cost of 80 billion
dollars, the Vietnam war yielded total profits to the military-industrial
complex and bankers of 220 trillion dollars, which is
about two centuries worth of the U.S. gross national product as
of 1970. Some of the illustrations in the book appear to have
been photographed off a television screen, and many of the original
documents reproduced are partially or entirely illegible.
March 2005 