This is the November 1966 issue of the radical New Left magazine
Ramparts, with a section called "In the Shadow of Dallas". It contained "Editorials by Penn Jones" and the article "As a guest, you are not allowed to view links.
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Login" by David Welsh. It was the first wide-spread publicity of Jones's Mysterious Deaths. Mixed in with the Welsh article were eleven small images of colour slides taken by Phillip Willis.
But those zany kooks couldn't resist. Near the front of the magazine appeared a lampoon of assassination literature. There were book reviews of spoof titles like "Time of Assassins" and "Oswald: Patsy Without Portfolio". Evidently CT Sylvia Meagher fell for it, as she was so irate she later denounced
Ramparts as “befouled merchants who are assassins of the human spirit.”
The magazine tried to make amends in its January 1967 issue with a article called "The Case for Three Assassins" by David Lifton and Welsh. All seemed based on anecdotal accounts, with the authors thinking witnesses have the power of total recall. They had a Grassy Knoll assassin and two more towards the rear of the motorcade.
At one time,
Ramparts was skeptical about JFK, the establishment liberal. Describing a 1962 visit to Berkeley:
| | "After his remarks, President Kennedy headed south for Palm Springs, where he stayed with Bing Crosby. The next day, he called on Dwight Eisenhower, his White House predecessor, and had sex with Marilyn Monroe, another Crosby houseguest. The following day, he attended mass." |
When radicals and kooks tell a lie, it's usually over the top. The clincher is Bing Crosby's house. He wouldn't allow that kind of stuff to go on.
The magazine, launched as a Catholic literary quarterly in 1962, would see its circulation peak at 300,000 in late-1970. Two
Ramparts editors, David Horowitz and Peter Collier, would later co-write books and become noted ultraconservatives. Wonder if they know John McAdams? Collier reflected: "What Ramparts did was taken on by the Washington Post and the New York Times".
