COLLECTORS' EDITION THE J F K assassination: truth compromised? THE GLOBAL VILLAGE PROJECT © CONTENTS profile: PAGE 10/COVER JFK Who killed JFK? Why was President Kennedy killed? Was President Kennedy's murder thresult of a calculated conspiracy? The Global Village Project addresses these much-debated by analyzing and reviewing the 60's evidence, conspiracy theories, and controversies surrounding the Kennedy assassination. facets: PAGE 61/DOES HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? A look at the similarities that exist between the assassinations of Am rican Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. PAGE 64/THE MARRIAGE OF ABSTRACT AND ABSOLUTE might come across as "artsy- fartsy" and taking monstrous liberties with poetic license - but, so what! PAGE 67/THE ME IACRACY OF THE REAGAN PRESIDENCY highlights or lowlights the tempest-tost vitriol o the Reagan Presidency. Media was to Reagan as a violin was to Heifetz: a tool to be mastere PAGE 80/COLLEC i E OWNERSHIP: THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. With the collapse of the Soviet economy, the United States, in certain industrial centres, is experimenting with 'Collective Ownership" of industry. Go figure! We illustrate a working model. PAGE 85/INTELLIi ENCE TESTS? WHAT INTELLIGENCE TESTS? Is the idea of genetic inheritance of intelli ence dwindling? Popular belief shows that the "yeas" have it. PAGE 88/THE CA ADIAN PERSPECTIVE gives you the chance to sound-off on the many social/political/ethic questions and dilemmas that surround us as Canadians and global villagers. Departments: Opinions & Things - 99/Simply Cerebral or Grey Matter or Think About Publisher : ditor: (J.), Frank Konto Syntax Edi or: Chris J. Jennings Printing: ouble Q Printers An Opera on Galileo Publication Operation Galileo is a ubsidiary of Knarf Sotnok Publishing ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS "And the Oscar goes to ... " My parents - for their sense of humanity, wisdom, compassion, political convictions, and devotion to championing the. underdog - and for teaching me of these things. What's more important, is the unpayable debt I owe them for their love. Chris Jennings, my greatest friend and confidante - for unselfishly helping me with this and endless other writing projects. He has provided invaluable support - moral and academic - in this work. Chris has convinced me that "The red pen is mightier than the sword." Paul Wang - for his kind words of encouragement and genuine benevolence. The memory of John itzgerald Kennedy. All who are devoted t the "cause." 1. Finally, my adversarie. - for just being the people they are. WORD OF THANKS Thanks to Raymond H., Ori Shlush, and Eddie Wong at Twin-Prop Computers for their computer wisdom and awesome customer se ice. And you don't even have to buy them pizza to get great service. Thanks guys. My hat's off to Richa • and Stan at Trafalgar Auto, two real working-class heroes. Much thanks to Geor e Stalker at Multi-Mag for giving The Global Village Project a chance. "Dum vivimus, spera us." Gratia! Dignus omni honore: L. L. and W. P. H., in giving me a second chance in 1983. To Larry Banks for s ving the ship!!! "Ich bin ein Berliner " Tanya. Write to: The lobal Village Project No land Mall Post Office Box # 32058 Lon n, Ontario N5 5K9 • All articles written a d researched by (J.) Frank Kontos. WARNIN : The Global Village Project is not a flip-through magazine! The lobal Village Project 0 1993. Contents of The Global Village Project may not be repri ted without permission. No subscriptions can be offered at this time. Printed in Canada. The Global Village Project, established in 1992, is a subsidiary of Operation Galileo Publ ions, which is a subsidiary of Knarf Sotnok Publishing, which is a subsidiary of Frank Kon •s Publishing. All rights reserved by the copyright owner. 2 the GLOBAL VILLAGE project A LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER What is The Global Village Project, you ask? Well, in short, it is a politico-newsmagazine that puts the Establishment up for examination - both satirically and seriously. To wax satiric for example, Descartes once said: "I think, therefore, I am." The magazine's response to Descartes would be, "However, if I think not, am I not? No, I must be an American." But, on a serious level, The Global Village Project believes that if one, let's say, objects conscieritiously with American foreign policy, it does not mean that one is anti-American. It simply means that he or she objects conscientiously, on legal or moral grounds, with American foreign policy. In presenting its views (and the views offered to it) the Project does not censor an issue's position despite its controversy, sensitivity and/or political correctness. Moreover, The Global Village Project believes if we all take care of things locally, then globally, everything and everyplace else will take care of itself - as long as we s someplace. This message is similar to what Goethe (Faust) once said, "Let everyone sweep in front of his o n door, and the whole world will be clean." The Global Village Project will attempt to offer its readers an uninsulated and unsolicited (no special-interest groups) source of inforMation not delivered presently by today's mainstream media. We can accomplish this because we have no advertisers to decide what is or is not in good taste. This "decision-making" done by advertisers poses a conflict of interest, in that advertisers essentially control the open forum. For example, the television series LouGiont was cancelled by CBS in 1982, allegedly because of series star Edward Asner's vocal politics criticising Am rican involvement in Central America. The show's advertisers pulled out, citing a conflict of interest. B, the same token, Ms Magazine became insolvent at one point for representing the feminist viewpoint. It women's cosmetics advertisers pulled their contracts with the magazine, citing their reason as a "conflict o interest." Within the pages of th s magazine there will be, beyond any reasonable doubt, conflict of interests, but we guarantee equal space for rebuttal. The Global Village Project subscribes to the idea that an individual's conscience deals with i eas and that law deals with actions. That is, if one can think it, one can say it. But, 'just because one has s id it, it doesn't mean one can act upon it or incite others to act. Nor does it mean that everyone will like the idea being presented. Censorship is an individual responsibility. If we allow the expurgation of unpopu ar ideas, ideas that are at the very edge of thought and minority v ews, we are then primarily saying that we are willing to accept a Orwellian form of thought-control and an one-sidedness in our th nking. Thereby, we lose free thought and, become subjugated t , or enslaved by, if you please, the mainstream dogma, w atever it may be at whatever time. You know, like that guy amed Galileo. Censorship, like cancer, grows. The therapy, i Olt the cure, is . to have balance! To have balance, both I pular and unpopular ideas require equal exposure and analysis. Impossible? Perhaps. But, if we are to know how an individ al or a society feels, the media operators must not dictate to ciety and then ask of it what it thinks. Instead, media should be a sounding-board that assimilates the ideas of the society it supposedly serves, so that media reflects societal thinking and of the reverse. The former represents a controlled society and the latter an open one. The "thoughts of the many" must be wei hed as favourably as the limiting and self- serving sphere of infl ence of the few, especially if the idea of diversity in a free .ciety is to mean something. It is a monumental undertaking - but necessary when considering the alternatives. the GLOBAL VILLA E project 3 The Global Village Pr 'ect focuses on: political assassinations; social and political articles/essays; political caricatures; global issu s, both political and environmental; opinions and editorials; surveys; the occasional political poem like the ne below, written by the poet Robert Burns: Ye by crites! Are these your pranks? To murder men, and give God thanks? Desist for Shame! Proceed no further: God won't accept your thanks for murder. Hopefully, by example The Global Village Project can demonstrate that it has no preoccupation with any person's occupation, stntus, race, religion, and station in life. The Global Village Project's only criterion for writers planning to sub it a piece of writing is that your writing present an element of conflict. Whatever the conflict may be - e.g., om or Dad won't give you the keys to the car - we would like to hear from you. We welcome and encourag novice writers, young students, and voices of dissent. A genuine dissident dissents genuinely. And loudly early and often. Our first edition of Th Global Village Project is in limited print of only one thousand issues (or less) and is a collectors' edition. In this issue we mark the thirtieth year of American President Johri$itzgerald Kennedy's assassination. The Ke nedy article's focus is to review the 1960's assassination evidence, present the many conspiracy theories ad anted over the years, and analyse the discrepancies of evidence. The Global Village Pr ect may very well be a one-time deal. Therefore, on behalf of the Project, I welcome your ideas and support cause, like public television, The Global Village Project's survival will depend solely on the public support i receives. Our destiny is in your hands. FP-ank Kontos EDITOR'S NOTE I would like to begin by thanking Frank Kontos, the publisher/editor of the Global Village Project for allowing me the privilege of working as Syntax Editor on this Project.