Institutional Failure III
Part I. The grave at Arlington.
Part II. The man in the window that was not there.
Part III. The agent whose masters gladly fed him to the wolves: LHO.
“What did you want to do Harry T.
when you left high school?”
“I wanted to be a piano player in
a whore house.”
–Merle Miller Oral Hist.
“What the Hell is an extra
bullet in a thing like this?”
–H. Spkr, Albert.in R Marcus.
Part IV. The disorder manifest.
When with candor we look into the nature of the murder of President John F. Kennedy many key aspects appear to trouble the understanding of the tragedy. Foremost, in its troubling persistence is the effort to find out who killed him. While the significance of its resolution cannot be gainsaid, a vastly even more important issue looms like a dark cloud over the history of the gunshot death on the public street of an American city of this most powerful man in the history of the human race.
The central question that emerges in the crisis is not who shot JFK, but rather why we did not find out? The answer to this paramount question is that every major societal institution failed to follow its organizing principle. If we had examined and defined and made right this failed institutional order we would not have had the intervention in the Vietnamese civil war with its many dead; we would have been shucked of those lost in the in their brief Executive branch tenure, Congress persons, and cognoscenti; and, we would have had social and foreign problems properly addressed if not fully resolved.
Institutions that failed:
- 1. Investigative federal agencies.
2. Medical.
3. Television.
4. Political.
5. Academic.
6. Press.
7. Military.
8. Reformers.
9. Book publishers.
10. Intelligence agencies.
11. Legal.
12. Business.
13. Motion pictures.
14. Blondel concept. (Staff and major appointees.)
15. Executive.
16. Department of Justice.
The one institution that did not fail: Federal courts and its Wigmore doctrine.
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Copyright 4 November, 2025|David R. Wrone