Joan Mellen and RFK?

[Benjamin Cole]

Joan Mellen was a mixed bag. The quality of her scholarship greatly depended on ideology. When her ideology overrode her objectivity on an issue, her scholarship was awful, such as her claims about the Vietnam War, the USS Liberty, Israel in general, and MLK's character. When her ideology did not override her objectivity, her scholarship was usually solid, sometimes outstanding.

My guess is Mellen "potted out" at some point. Some of her Garrison stuff was OK (although now I have my doubts on anything that cannot be verified), but after that...

Yes, you are correct, Mellen is in that vast legion of JFKA researchers for who ideology determines the agenda, and the agenda writes the JFKA narrative.

Unfortunately, in the early decades after the JFKA, 90% of the CT'ers were liberals, or even further left.

I have no problem with anyone's ideologies, from communist to libertarian. That is your point of view, and no one  cares.

But when your ideology colors the narrative....James DiEugenio is going deep down this route. Doing a Joan Mellen?

Mellen actually contends LBJ was part of the USS Liberty sinking, and had four fighter-jets headed towards Cairo, loaded with nukes, and ready to drop...when, not according to plan, the ship did not sink. So LBJ nixed the nuke job on Cairo at the very last moment.

If she believes that...should we believe her JFKA coverage? Or is that a warning sign?

[Fred Litwin]

Joan Mellen was horrible on Garrison. She fell for Thomas Beckham's ridiculous stories, and made him a central part of her plot. She even claimed to have a very secret military document about Beckham which has never surfiaced.

And she believed Raymond Broshears!

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/post/what-do-jfk-conspiracy-books-say-about-raymond-broshears

[Benjamin Cole]

FL--

Due to the timing of shots that struck JFK and JBC on 11/22, I am in the CT camp.

But you make many valuable contributions to the JFKA research world, and you should be welcome in all JFKA forums.

 

[Tom Graves]

FL--

Due to the timing of shots that struck JFK and JBC on 11/22, I am in the CT camp.

But you make many valuable contributions to the JFKA research world, and you should be welcome in all JFKA forums.

What a nice thing to say!

[Benjamin Cole]

What a nice thing to say!

TG-

I made this comment, as Fred Litwin has been de facto banned by the far left wing, jaundiced, anti-Semitic crackpot now running the Education Forum JFK Debate.