Warren report conclusions are no suckers

Skeptics of

I was delighted to read the editorial “His Pointed Humor” (Aug. 25) regarding Dick Gregory.

Several years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Gregory and participating with him on some programs dealing with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Indeed, he was a very serious advocate and outspoken supporter of matters pertaining to civil rights and social justice. His great talent as a comedian enabled him to educate his audiences and stimulate their active interest in various important sociopolitical issues.

Regrettably, your statement “On the darker side, Mr. Gregory was a sucker for conspiracy theories from the Kennedy assassination to ... ” was quite insulting, dismissive and invalid as a matter of accurate historical reflection.

Every national poll conducted since the JFK assassination on Nov. 22, 1963, has indicated that a significant majority of Americans (ranging from 65 to as high as 82 percent) do not accept the conclusions of the Warren Commission Report (fall 1964), namely, that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman and nobody else had any involvement with JFK’s brutal murder. Despite all the efforts of the major news media establishment to support the WCR and rebuff or simply ignore all the forensic scientific and other physical investigative evidence to the contrary, two-thirds to three-fourths of U.S. citizens have continued to reject that absurd, forensic scientifically invalid conclusion.

Pray tell, do all these people live “on the darker side”? Is the rejection of the WCR some kind of personal “idiosyncrasy” shared by millions of people?

Someday, the PG may deign to write an obituary about me. Obviously, you will state whatever you wish. I have only one small request. Please refer to me as having been a longtime, loudmouthed leader of the idiosyncratic dark-sided population that believes the WCR is one of the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated by our government. CYRIL H. WECHT, M.D., J.D. Squirrel Hill