Volume 7, Number 1 · July 28, 1966
The Second Oswald: The Case for a Conspiracy Theory
By Richard H. Popkin
Inquest
by Edward Jay Epstein
Viking, 224 pp., $5.00
Whitewash
by Harold Weisberg
Harold Weisberg (Hyattstown, Md.), 208 pp., $4.95 (paper)
In one of Victor Serge's last works, The Case of Comrade Tulayev, written over fifteen years ago, the Russian equivalent of the Oswald story is set forth. An alienated young man, unhappy with the many aspects of his life in the Soviet Union—the food, his room, his job, etc.—acquires a gun, and manages to shoot Commissar Tulayev one night when he is getting out of a car. An extensive investigation sets in, followed by an extensive purge. Millions of people are arrested and made to confess to being part of a vast conspiracy against the government. The actual assassin is, of course, never suspected, since no one can imagine him as a conspirator. He continues to lead his alienated unhappy life, while the government uncovers the great plot.
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