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A bit of JFK assassination humor (3 posts)

  1. christs4sale
    Administrator

    The most controversial “Realist” hoax was published a couple of years after the JFK assassination. It was a reaction to William Manchester’s authorized Kennedy biography. The “Realist” article was titled “The Parts That Were Left Out of the Kennedy Book.” The “parts” included a scene with soon-to-be-inaugurated President Lyndon Johnson caught buggering the corpse of President Kennedy in its casket by Jackie Kennedy. To be more exact, the article stated that LBJ was humping the bullet-hole wound in JFK’s throat.

    Some members of the mainstream press and other Washington political wonks, including Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, actually believed this incident to be true. It was this hoax that gave Krassner the first of many moments of notoriety.

    http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Paul...

    Here is the actual issue:

    http://www.ep.tc/realist/74/

    Posted 15 years ago #
  2. JohnA
    Member

    you realize that the actual 'hoax' may be the claim that Ellsberg believed it.

    Posted 15 years ago #
  3. christs4sale
    Administrator

    CAT SIMRIL: What was your most successful prank?

    PAUL KRASSNER: "The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book" published in The Realist in 1967. People across the country believed - if only for a moment - that an act of presidential necrophilia had taken place. It worked because Jackie Kennedy had created so much curiosity by censoring the book she authorized - William Manchester's, "The Death Of A President" - because what I wrote was a metaphorical truth about LBJ's personality presented in a literary context, and because the imagery was so shocking, it broke through the notion that the war in Vietnam was being conducted by sane men.

    http://www.tedalvy.com/cat.htm

    Posted 15 years ago #

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