in front of him, the first thing Johnson would do now is kill him.” She

in front of him, the first thing Johnson would do now is kill him.” She smiled sardonically, adding, “Unless Bobby beat him to it.” Postscript: The most significant thing about “The Parts Left Out of the Kennedy Book” was its widespread acceptance--if only for a moment--by intelligent, literate people, from an ACLU official to a Peabody Award- winning journalist to members of the intelligence community who knew that sort of thing actually does go on. Daniel Ellsberg said, “Maybe it was just because | wanted to believe it so badly.” One caller claimed that he could determine, by feeding the article into a computer, whether Manchester had written the portions | published. Several individuals queried that final arbiter of truth, the Playboy Adviser. One reader “went out and bought the original Death of a President just to see if your parts would fit into the book--they did. Amazing!” | also received a call from Ray Marcus, a critic of the Warren Commission Report, who had discovered a chronological flaw in my article. How could William Manchester leave something out of his book that was itself a report of something that he’ d left out of his book? Marcus deduced that 7he Realist must have been given the excerpts by a CIA operative in order to discredit va/id dissent on the assassination. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015087