Oliver Stone's screenwriter, James DiEugenio keeps on telling whoppers
James DiEugenio has come out with his new book, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. The book is mainly film script from Stone's laughable JFK Revisited and JFK Destiny Betrayed cartoons and some DiEugenio interviews. As I perused my Kindle copy today, I found some glaring disinformation again; the false claim that Oswald's airmail letter to Klein's Sporting Goods (order of the Mannlicher Carcano rifle) in Chicago couldn't be mailed and deposited in one day.
Background on DiEugenio's Nutty Claim
On the Education Forum, DiEugenio started this baseless challenge to this author:
James DiEugenio's Crazy Mail Claim, Education Forum, December 1, 2021
I responded to this claim in a blog, which DiEugenio saw on February 12, 2022, here: https://steveroeconsulting.wixsite.com/website/post/debunking-another-jfk-myth-overnight-mail-from-dallas-to-chicago
In the article above, I provide proof that the Dallas Postal service did have overnight airmail to major cities across the U.S. It's undeniable.
DiEugenio then started changing his story on February 14, 2022. Note: DiEugenio confuses me with Fred Litwin, that's how sloppy he gets.
James DiEugenio's Switcheroo, Education Forum, February 14, 2022
I re-blogged this article when in true DiEugenio fashion, tries to change his story around here: JFK Revisited Screen Writer Crawfishes on Dallas to Chicago Airmail Overnight Delivery (steveroeconsulting.wixsite.com)
You would think that was the end of it, but.......
DiEugenio's repeated phony claim in the book JFK Revisited
Winding up the conspiracy story telling machine again, DiEugenio doubles down in print now. Inserted in the film interview of Brian Edwards, DiEugenio can't help himself.
During the making of JFK Revisited, the producers had Debra Conway mail a letter from Dallas at the main Ervay Street post office to Michael LeFlem in Chicago, who lived a mile from where Klein’s used to be. Including a Sunday, it took six days for the letter to arrive. The Warren Report says the entire transaction, sorting the funds at Klein’s by check, money order or cash, and then depositing the money order into the bank, took one day. There were no zip codes at that time (Warren Report, p. 119).
DiEugenio, James. JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (p. 44-45). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.
As if that wasn't bad enough, DiEugenio repeats it again, to make sure the reader gets his nutty point. This time DiEugenio inserts another notation in his own interview with Brian Edwards.
(Editor’s Note: Not only was it before PayPal, but it was before zip codes, high-speed sorters, widespread computer technology and sensors. Dallas was about one thousand miles from Chicago. When the film producers conducted an experiment, they had Debra Conway mail a letter from the Evray Street Post Office in Dallas to Michael LeFlem, a writer who was living in Chicago about one mile from where Klein’s used to be located. That letter took six days to arrive, five days subtracting Sunday. And this was without the step Klein’s used for sorting incoming funds by in and out of state and by denomination: checks, money orders, and cash. And also the final step of taking it over to the bank for deposit.)
DiEugenio, James. JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (pp. 299-300). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.
Conclusion
DiEugenio's conspiracy story telling business has discredited himself once again. He had plenty of time to leave this fairy tale out of his book. Naturally like Oliver Stone, he doubled down on stupid......again.
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