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JFK Wanted Out of Vietnam

by Howard Jones

Like many of my generation, I can remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when the news arrived from Dallas that President John F. Kennedy had been shot.

Column: High Noon with Dubya Fudd

by P. M. Carpenter

For most viewers, watching George W. Bush on "Meet the Press" was an hour-long descent into bewilderment and depression, a slack-jawed mental numbness brought on by wondering how such an inarticulate human being could occupy the world's most powerful office. And this time, no one could blame the bad reviews on nasty partisanship. Virtually everyone with a public voice confessed unease and regret over the president's soon-infamous performance. On the morning after, amidst

Is Guantanamo a Big Mistake?

by Max Paul Friedman

Missing from the debate over the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba are the lessons of this country's only previous attempt to imprison foreign suspected subversives, captured overseas, in special camps beyond the reach of the courts. Then, as now, casting aside legal principles led to injustices while weakening support for the United States abroad. As the Supreme Court joins the dispute, recalling the mistakes of the past provides insight into the present. Last time, the targets were

Was the Conviction of an 18 Year Old Black Kid for Rape Racist?

by James E. McWilliams

The story of Marcus Dixon isn't the only newsworthy court case to be stranded by higher-profile events. But it may be the most tragic. Dixon is an 18-year-old man who's been sentenced by a Georgia state court to 10 years in prison after having sex with a girl who was a few months shy of her 16th birthday. Dixon, who claimed the sex was consensual, is black. The girl, who claimed she was raped, is white. The jury convicted Dixon of "statutory rape and aggravated child molestat

Should We Judge Bush by the Content of His Character?

by Ruth Rosen

George W. Bush, who describes himself as our "war president," actually knows precious little about war, including the one he launched in Iraq. In last Sunday's interview with NBC News' Tim Russert, the president revealed that, absent a scripted speech on a TelePrompTer, he is unable to defend his decision to invade and occupy Iraq. His responses only widened his growing credibility gap. He insisted that he tried every diplomatic alternative to war, even though many of us

Vietnam 30 Years Later: What John Kerry Said on Meet the Press

On May 6, 2001 Tim Russert interviewed Senator John Kerry on Meet the Press. In the course of the interview, Mr. Russert asked the senator about his views on Vietnam.MR. RUSSERT: You mentioned you're a military guy. There's been a lot of discussion about Bob Kerrey, your former Democratic colleague in the Senate, about his talking about his anguish about what happened in Vietnam . You were on this program 30 years ago as a leader of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. And we went

Are the Revisionists Right About FDR?

by Alonzo Hamby

Late last year, a band of conservative Republican congressmen, seemingly motivated by an overwhelming urge to smash a liberal icon and replace it with one of their own, unexpectedly declared they would offer a resolution to remove Franklin Roosevelt's image from the dime and replace it with Ronald Reagan's. Their polar opposites among the Democrats rushed to the barricades. Nearly sixty years after his death, Franklin Roosevelt elicits near-worshipful adulation from those who position

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 10)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 9)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 8)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 7)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 6)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 5)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 4)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 3)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 2)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

Identification and Autopsy of John Wilkes Booth (Page 1)

by Leonard F. Guttridge

White House Lies: A Brief History

by John Quigley

The White House's selective use of intelligence information to provide a reason for war in Iraq stems in significant measure from the capture of the Bush administration by elements with their own foreign policy agenda. For the grouping associated with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the issue of Iraq's weaponry provided a public rationale for an invasion carried out for other aims. A false case on Iraq's weaponry was broadcast to the world in Secretary of State Colin Powell's now inf

Why Haiti's Such a Mess (And Why Bill Clinton Was So Wrong to Prop Up Aristide)

by Michael Radu

Ten years ago, in September 1994, U.S. troops invaded Haiti under the auspices of restoring democracy, human rights and the rule of law. At the time, the Clinton-conceived operation was hailed by leftists as a model of liberal interventionism, as former Catholic priest Jean-Bertrand Aristide was restored to power and an oppressive military regime was ousted. There was only one problem with this scenario: not only was Aristide vehemently anti-capitalist and (ironically) anti-American, he was e

Why He-Man Politics Is All the Rage this Year

by Jeremy H. Neill

Politics and manliness have always been bound together in American politics in one form or another. Just last month in the Jan. 28 issue of the Washington Post George Will penned a column on “The Politics of Manliness” in which he argued that the Democrats recognize manliness as a subtext to the campaign. What varies throughout the history of American politics is the explicitness with which someone's manhood is used to make political points of one form or another. Military se