I could be wrong but I got the impression that the atmosphere between Ellroy and the interviewer got somewhat tense in the second half and towards the end.
31:49 - Ellroy has smartened up and done a 180 on the Kennedy assassination. On his "This Storm" tour, he came clean about believing the (nearly indisputable) fact of Oswald's lone participation.
@@jason6010 I think it's more likely that he entertained the notion of assassination conspiracy theories to help sell his book. Ellroy always says that he doesn't personally conduct much historical research before writing a book - he relies on paid researchers to compile fact sheets for him and the rest springs from his imagination. Many of his books do tell some kind of "truth" insofar as they portray police brutality as normative and widespread in Cold War America. But cops love him anyway, and love his complex depictions of them.
The lone gunman theory is very disputable. The magic bullet theory is ridiculous, the theory says that a three-centimeter-long (1.2") copper-jacketed lead-core bullet from a 6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through President Kennedy's neck into Governor Connally's chest, went through his right wrist, and embedded itself in Connally's left thigh. If so, this bullet traversed a back brace, 15 layers of clothing, seven layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches (38 cm) of muscle tissue, and pulverized 4 inches (10 cm) of Connally's rib, and shattered his radius bone causing a total of seven entry/exit wounds in both men and after all that the bullet recovered looked pristine lol. Many witnesses reported gun shots from the grassy knoll, there's footage of people rushing over to the grassy knoll area to see if the shooter had been captured, two war veterans riding in the tail car behind JFK's car stated that shots were coming from multiple directions, there is a mountain of evidence suggesting multiple shooters. Watch the documentary "JFK: Through The Looking Glass" if you are interested in gaining a more educated perspective on what happened on Nov 22nd 1963.
@@americangangster1911 Sorry, the magic bullet "theory" is based on a complete straw-man. The very premise has no basis in reality, as it relies on a misrepresentation of how the parties were seated in the vehicle. Connally was not seated directly in front of Kennedy in the presidential limousine, but to his left front. The line of fire from Oswald’s rifle to Kennedy’s upper back to Connally’s ribcage and wrist was almost completely straight. In any case, these things aren't worth discussing at length on a TH-cam thread. There have been an astounding number of pisspoor books written by conspiracy-mongers with shoddy scholarship methods, false premises, and unscientific approaches, almost all of which have had the everloving fuck debunked out of them by responsible historians.
30:52 - This fills in important gaps in my knowledge of Ellroy's life in the 2000s. I'm surprised a man as pious and religious as he would date a married woman. In an interview I just read, he takes responsibility for breaking up Erika Schickel's marriage and gloats about it.
Ellroy strikes me as someone who's read Raymond Chandler and decided "I can do better."
😂😂😂
I could be wrong but I got the impression that the atmosphere between Ellroy and the interviewer got somewhat tense in the second half and towards the end.
yeah JE is insanely patient i think with this shitty interviewer
i dont think he got over james calling amsterdam 'shitsville'
@@dollhouse3009lmfaoo
Man this interviewer bites the big one and it ain't the language barrier.
31:49 - Ellroy has smartened up and done a 180 on the Kennedy assassination. On his "This Storm" tour, he came clean about believing the (nearly indisputable) fact of Oswald's lone participation.
Sure pal.
He's pals with lapd. You can't go around saying the truth and think cops will still hang out with you.
@@jason6010 I think it's more likely that he entertained the notion of assassination conspiracy theories to help sell his book. Ellroy always says that he doesn't personally conduct much historical research before writing a book - he relies on paid researchers to compile fact sheets for him and the rest springs from his imagination.
Many of his books do tell some kind of "truth" insofar as they portray police brutality as normative and widespread in Cold War America. But cops love him anyway, and love his complex depictions of them.
The lone gunman theory is very disputable. The magic bullet theory is ridiculous, the theory says that a three-centimeter-long (1.2") copper-jacketed lead-core bullet from a 6.5×52mm Mannlicher-Carcano rifle fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through President Kennedy's neck into Governor Connally's chest, went through his right wrist, and embedded itself in Connally's left thigh. If so, this bullet traversed a back brace, 15 layers of clothing, seven layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches (38 cm) of muscle tissue, and pulverized 4 inches (10 cm) of Connally's rib, and shattered his radius bone causing a total of seven entry/exit wounds in both men and after all that the bullet recovered looked pristine lol. Many witnesses reported gun shots from the grassy knoll, there's footage of people rushing over to the grassy knoll area to see if the shooter had been captured, two war veterans riding in the tail car behind JFK's car stated that shots were coming from multiple directions, there is a mountain of evidence suggesting multiple shooters. Watch the documentary "JFK: Through The Looking Glass" if you are interested in gaining a more educated perspective on what happened on Nov 22nd 1963.
@@americangangster1911 Sorry, the magic bullet "theory" is based on a complete straw-man. The very premise has no basis in reality, as it relies on a misrepresentation of how the parties were seated in the vehicle. Connally was not seated directly in front of Kennedy in the presidential limousine, but to his left front. The line of fire from Oswald’s rifle to Kennedy’s upper back to Connally’s ribcage and wrist was almost completely straight. In any case, these things aren't worth discussing at length on a TH-cam thread. There have been an astounding number of pisspoor books written by conspiracy-mongers with shoddy scholarship methods, false premises, and unscientific approaches, almost all of which have had the everloving fuck debunked out of them by responsible historians.
30:52 - This fills in important gaps in my knowledge of Ellroy's life in the 2000s. I'm surprised a man as pious and religious as he would date a married woman. In an interview I just read, he takes responsibility for breaking up Erika Schickel's marriage and gloats about it.
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my reaction to anyone who asks what the greatest country is