by Mark Crispin Miller, News from Underground:

We didn’t have to end up where we are today—and wouldn’t have thus ended up, if “our free press” had served us as the Framers meant it to

Here—some four years after the CIA first weaponized the phrase “conspiracy theory,” for use against those questioning the Warren Report—was a remarkable appearance by Jim Garrison on “The Steve Allen Show,” to talk about his new book A Heritage of Stone, about JFK’s assassination, and its relation to the war in Vietnam. Garrison was joined in that rare moment by Mort Sahl, the great comedian, who had served for several years as part of Garrison’s investigative team (and who paid dearly for it).