Show The policy of truth Terry Dillon DUlon Columnist SOME SOME people think that faith is believing in t things ings that you know cant can't be betrue true This might otherwise be called the theory of God and the Universe I miss Sunday School nearly every we week k to watch This Week with David Brinkley so I took it very seriously when my heroes heroes George George Will Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts Roberts panned panned the new Oliver Stone movie FK Roberts' Roberts father was on the Warren Commission she ex- ex Therefore she refuses to see Stones Stone's film because because because be be- cause it contradicts the Warren Warren Warren War War- ren Commissions Commission's single bullet bullet bullet bul bul- let theory of assassination Will voiced concern that movie goers who are too young to remember John F. F Kennedys Kennedy's assassination assassination and and the Oswald hit hit might hit might come away from the Stone film believing it to be an accurate portrayal of those events But there are some problems here The majority of Americans old enough in Wills Will's terms to remember do donot not accept the Warren Commissions Commission's findings Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps they do not believe in inthe inthe inthe the either Or as Newsweek ek magazine had the audacity to say it would be good to be able to run the Warren Commissions Commission's findings findings findings find find- ings past Rose Cheramie Rose Cheramie was a prostitute prostitute prostitute pros pros- who warned Louisiana state police about the assassination assassination assassination assas assas- plot two days before it happened She said she had been dumped off on the way by two men hit-men driving up from Florida to Dallas to shoot Kennedy She also said she worked for a Dallas strip- strip joint owner named Jack Ruby explains Newsweek Newsweek- the same Jack Ruby who later shot Oswald Ruby may have sympathized sympathized sympathized sym sym- with Jacqueline Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Ken Ken- nedy but it is illogical to believe that a guy who's running running running run run- ning a strip joint and beating up women is worried that Jackie ackie will have to come comeback back to Texas for a trial I think Ruby was just a go-fer go for the syndicate down dow there adds Chauncey Holt an insider on the mafia Ro Rose e Cheramie was murdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered in September 1965 And t then en there is John Roselli who is known to have helped hatch Mafia CIA-Mafia assassination assassination assassination as as- plots like the plan to give Fidel Castro an LSD LSD- permeated scuba diving suit Roselli was found with his arms and legs cut off and shoved into an oil drum This after promising to testify testify testify tes tes- tes- tes about the Cuban mobster connections connection which Stones Stone's movie depict Some people claim heresy is caused by thinking too much These critics complain in that when the community appeals to higher standards of criticism it thereby kills spiritual values This accounts for the apostasy of Harvard and Yale which started out as Christian schools says one c critic r i tic q quoted 0 t e din in Time magazine To which Richard Mitchell an education specialist responds He speaks as one who might stoutly profess obedience to at least two-thirds two of the first and great commandment comm Thou love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy mind The body and soul of our nation is in need of a healing Until the truth truth the the necessary necessary necessary sary basis of faith faith is is disclosed disclosed dis dis- closed with regard to the assassination and with the Reagan-North Reagan Iran Contra affair affair affair af af- af- af fair we are an ailing nation out of our minds minds having having faith in that which is unbelievable unbelievable unbelievable un un- un- un believable while denying our apos apostasy from true democracy In God We Trust liberty and justice for all For more information Plausible Denial by 19 1991 91 Mar Mark k La Lane n e and October Surprise 1991 by Gary Sick are available at Bookseller in Valley Fair and Cottonwood Malls |