American Conspiracies - Jesse Ventura [121]
Do you ever think that maybe our country needs a Truth Commission, to understand the crimes that were committed “in our name” over these recent decades? My hope is that some of you will stand with me in calling for accountability. The only way we can truly move forward is to come to grips with a recent past that’s brought us to the brink of losing it all.
Maybe we ought to put ourselves in the position of the little Vietnamese farmer who did nothing but raise his rice. They handed him an AK-47 and in came the powerful United States, and we dropped more armaments on Vietnam that we did in World War II. We threw everything we had at this little rice farmer—and we couldn’t beat him, could we? When push came to shove, he outlasted us. Why? Because he had the resolve for freedom. That Vietnamese farmer wanted to self-govern, not be part of colonialism. Maybe we, in the United States, should start viewing our government as colonialists. Now the rest of us, in our own country, are becoming the colony. And somehow, some way, we’ve got to reclaim our nation.
FURTHER READING
THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, by Edward Steers Jr., The University Press of Kentucky, 2001
Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy, by H. Donald Winkler, Cumberland House: Nashville, Tennessee, 2003
FDR AND THE BANKERS
The Plot to Seize the White House, by Jules Archer, Skyhorse Publishing, 2007 Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Times, by Carroll Quigley, G.S.G. & Associates, 1975
THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, by James W. Douglass, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, N.Y., 2008
Harvey and Lee: How the CIA Framed Oswald, by John Armstrong, Qasar, Ltd., Arlington, Texas, 2003
Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, by Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann, Counterpoint: Berkeley, 2008 (Also covers later assassinations of sixties)
Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, by David Talbot, Free Press, 2007
The Man Who Knew Too Much, by Dick Russell, Carroll & Graf, revised edition 2003
On the Trail of the JFK Assassins, by Dick Russell, Skyhorse Publishing, 2008 Not In Your Lifetime, by Anthony Summers, Marlowe & Co., N.Y., 1998 updated edition
The Assassinations, Ed. by James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, Feral House, Los Angeles, 2003 (Also covers other assassinations of sixties)
THE ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X
The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X, by Karl Evanzz, Thunder’s Mouth Press, N.Y., 1992
Conspiracys: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X, by Baba Zak A. Kondo, Nubia Press, Washington, D.C., 1993
THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING
An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, by William F. Pepper, Verso, London, 2008 updated edition
Truth at Last: The Untold Story Behind James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., by John Larry Ray and Lyndon Barsten, The Lyons Press, Guilford, Ct., 2008
The Martin Luther King Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, 1968-1991, by Dr. Philip H. Melanson, Shapolsky Publishers, N.Y., 1991 updated version
THE ROBERT KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, by Shane O’Sullivan, Union Square Press, N.Y. & London, 2008
The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, by Philip H. Melanson, Shapolsky Publishers, N.Y., 1991
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, by William W. Turner and Jonn G. Christian, Random