One Hand Jerking by Paul Krassner

Author:Paul Krassner
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2010-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

REBELS WITH CAUSES

MAE, WE HARDLY KNEW YE

November 22, 2003 marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, so I’d like to pay posthumous tribute to the queen of conspiracy research, Mae Brussell, particularly in view of a recent Op-Ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by Richard M. Mosk, who was a staff member of the Warren Commission.

“This year’s decennial anniversary,” he wrote, “may well be remarkable for what will be missing: myriad articles and discussions debunking the Warren Commision’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.”

Mae Brussell was the daughter of Edgar Magnin, senior rabbi at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Beverly Hills, and the granddaughter of I. Magnin, founder of the clothing-store chain. House guests ranged from Louis B. Mayer to Thomas Mann, from Jack Warner to Albert Einstein. She attended Stanford University, majoring in philosophy. She was married and divorced twice. In her forties, she had an affair with Henry Miller.

When JFK was slain, Mae was a suburban homemaker with five children. Her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie was concerned about Lee Harvey Oswald. She saw him on TV. He had a black eye and he was saying, “I didn’t do it. I haven’t killed anybody. I don’t know what this is all about.” Bonnie decided to send him her teddy bear. It was all wrapped up and ready to mail when she saw Oswald murdered by Jack Ruby on TV that Sunday morning, and then all day long, over and over again in slow-motion.

What then began as Mae’s hobby would turn into a lifetime pilgrimage. One bit of research led to another—and another and another and another. Although the Ultimate Mystery would remain forever inconceivable, assassination research became her spiritual quest for truth. Conspiracy became her Zen grid for perceiving political reality, drawing her deeper and deeper into a separate reality that Carlos Castaneda never dreamed of. (Castaneda was, of course, one of the three tramps arrested at the Grassy Knoll.)

Mae started a weekly radio program, Dialogue Assassination, originating at KLRB in Carmel, California, and syndicated to half a dozen other stations. She purchased the Warren Commission Report for $86, studying and cross-referencing the entire 26 volumes, without the aid of a computer. It took her eight years and 27,000 typewritten pages. She was overwhelmed by the difference between the evidence and the conclusion that there had been only a single assassin.

“Lee Harvey Oswald was set up to take the fall,” she said, “but the Warren Commission ignored physical evidence from the scene of the crime—bullets, weapons, clothing, wounds—and based its judgment that Oswald was just a disturbed loner on the testimony of some 30 Russian emigres in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Most of them, according to the testimony, were affiliated with anti-Communist organizations that had collaborated with the Nazis during the war.”

Next she began to study the history of Nazis brought to this country after World War II under “Project Paperclip” and infiltrated into hospitals, universities and the aerospace industry, further developing their techniques in propaganda, mind control and behavior modification.

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