FMPU Book/Essay Review: King-Kill/33 [1987]
The Essay That Called JFK a Put-On Before It Was Cool Published on America's 250th birthday. Two hundred fifty years of history, and it's hard to point to a stranger, more corrosive mystery than what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963 — not because of who may or may not have pulled a trigger, but because of what the unresolved doubt has done to the country's relationship with its own official story ever since. If disclosure culture today feels like a charade, this is arguably where the pattern started. Bob Dylan got at the same idea, decades later, better than most historians have. His 2020 epic "Murder Most Foul" describes the assassination as the greatest magic trick ever pulled off in broad daylight — flawlessly executed, in full view of a watching crowd that somehow saw nothing. That's the "put-on" thesis in a single image: not a crime hidden in the dark, but a performance staged in the light, betting correctly that visibility it...