Bob Wallace’s recent post questioning some peoples’ interest in JFK’s assassination brings to mind this quote from Murray Rothbard’s review of the Oliver Stone’s JFK (the review is available in the Irrepressible Rothbard):

“Many conservatives and libertarians will surely be irritated by one theme of the film: the old-fashioned view of Kennedy as the shining young prince of Camelot, the great hero about to redeem America who was chopped down in his prime by dark reactionary forces. That sort of attitude has long been discredited by a very different kind of Revisionism…Well, OK, but look at it this way: a president was murdered for heaven’s sake and good, bad , or indifferent, it is surely vital to get to the bottom of the conspiracy, and brings the villains to justice, if only at the bar of history.

Those interested in the latest in Kennedy revisionism should check out this interview from Jesse Venutra’s America with the author of a hot new book fingering LBJ (scroll down past interview with pro-gun rocker Ted Nugent). The author of this book is a bona-fide member of the Texas elite who used to work for LBJ and has two sons in the Bush Administration. Yet, except for the Body, the mainstream media is ignoring this book.