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be a conspiracy, and if (as all the Warren Report criticisms
appeared to indicate) this conspiracy involved any con-
scious complicity within the federal bmurocracy, action. the lone-assassin theory, because otherwise there had to
posture impossible to maintain any longer, but it wasn't at ever to turn the tide.
all what we expected—and were dreading—to learn. As things were too far gone already for nonviolent direct
realized that this was no ordinary muckraking—it was made a Warm and exceedingly
solid and sensitive reportage of a very high they spread their conclusions and proofs out before us, we
particular villains and victims was not the point. The point of raw data and recast it in readable form, our remaining rushed against the deadlines, trying to compress the stacks
truly comprehensible for the first time. And as we all doubts diminished and finally vanished: the disclosure of
rampant, but ever-present virus in our society which
like a culture under a microscope. permitting us glimpses produces such violent symptoms of our national disease as
was, and still is, the sometimes dormant, sometimes
of the virus itself at work. the killing of a President: and the New Orleans story is
American agree.
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like rather than under it, for to scratch the earth is to expose the ocean. Of all the but the
New Orleans is small, quiet bars at 4:00 am., where old men lean against Orleans, much of which is interchangeable with Memphis or Houston or Mobile, Vieux Carve New Orleans. The city is an international center night. Southern cities this one has traditionally had the loosed approach between black of the sluggish sewers; graveyards are built with the tombs on top of the ground Garrison, whether or not he has a case, could only emerge in New Orleans. The section of San Francisco, and It is the clue to New Orleans, a city occupied by and while, and Mere is something about the city which lets you know that once shows a blending of French same moment not American and yet belongs nowhere else. Williams, a condition of being in which a man like David Ferric fits perfectly. originally made it possible for the American Midwest to trade with the world. the Spanish and still play the original forms of New Orleans jazz. The food with French skills. The Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico below to be more generous, there are only three cities that head the list of great cities. way that some love Chicago), there younger men, and white men know where to find black women. Old Negroes corruption is not the Chicago's hard Puritan sort, but is an inner corruption. The the sun goes down, all lines of race—and of sex—vanish in the dark and humid
Cattail in WS the map. But, while each city has charms and characteristic that are unique to we've got, plus a lot of cities that aren't as major and some towns that aren't on
tourists, but real people live there They make love and they plot and sometimes they die. New Orleans is a swamp in which a man could easily vanish and yet,
The city is built so close to The Vieux Carte is larger than Greenwich Village or the old North Beach
New Orleans is decadent, sinister, gentle, dangerous and beautiful. Its
As I look at a map of this country, I realize
San
Vieux Carte
Francisco, it is a small city In which everyone knows everyone else.
is a state of mind,
scenario could only exist in this strange climate, which is at the
the
or Old Quarter, sometimes called the "French Quarter."
French before it was finally claimed by us, The architecture
and
water
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a zone of desires touched on by Tennesee
are
level that the
only three great cities in this country; ai,