Jim Garrison's Rejection Letter from Prentice Hall Press, and His Reply
Garrison submitted his manuscript to Prentice Hall Press in 1986 and hit pay dirt. They paid him a $10,000 advance.
Prentice Hall hired Sylvia Meagher as a referee. She submitted a 26-page analysis, and I have excerpted some of her comments. She was not impressed with the chapters on New Orleans.
Prentice Hall rejected Garrison's book, and demanded he return their advance. I have posted their letter to him, and his reply.
https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/blog
Here we see the ultimate delusion - of a long list of them - of Garrison: that JFK was going to single-handedly end the Cold War and the Vietnam conflict (and it's why an anti-American leftist like Olive Stone was attracted to the self-labeled "libertarian conservative" Garrison).
Because in the Garrison twisted view of the world, those conflicts were caused by the military industrial complex and the war industries inside the US. And only them. Any Soviet role - the occupation of Europe, the attempts to spread their system through force - in causing the conflict doesn't exist in this worldview. If it does then it's argued that the West somehow forced Moscow to take these actions.
All we had to do - and JFK was going to do it (even though none of his advisers, e.g., McNamara, Rusk, Bundy et al. said he was) - was to stop our aggression. And it was for that reason alone that he was killed. JFK would look with amazement as such a deluded view of the world.
