The store was a full-service men’s haberdashery with a barbershop and bookie upstairs. Among his clients were many movie stars and gangsters, his family said, including the Marx brothers and Mickey Cohen. [^11]
The Factor’s support of L.A.…Many other political crimes in which involvement by high officials is suspected have gone uninvestigated or unpunished. Examples of suspected SCADs include fabricated attacks on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 (Ellsberg, 2002, pp. …1963, the year of Duchamp’s Las Vegas trip facilitated by Monte Factor, was also the year that John F. Kennedy was assassinated. While the 1964 Warren Report found Lee Harvey Oswald solely responsible, a decade later The United States House…
John F. Kennedy
politician · 5 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Kennedy appears in the course readings primarily as a historical touchstone for state deception and conspiratorial narratives that complicate official narratives—his assassination in 1963 is invoked alongside the contested Warren Report to illustrate how institutional investigations can obscure rather than clarify contested events. The readings use Kennedy's death as a case study in how attention and perception can be manipulated at the level of public consciousness, linking Cold War-era paranoia about hidden state actors to broader questions about information control and the management of official truth. This resonates with the seminar's interest in how cybernetic systems of control operate through narrative and institutional authority, particularly when transparency becomes suspect.
Background
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.
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Gambits for Deception
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Robert F. Kennedy 2Alexander Cockburn 1Arthur B. Darling 1Arturo Rosenblueth 1Benjamin Breen 1Betty Asher 1Betty Factor 1Carlos Vidales 1Gregory Bateson 1Jeffrey St. Clair 1Johnny Roselli 1Julian Bigelow 1Lee Harvey Oswald 1Marcel Duchamp 1Margaret Mead 1Monte Factor 1Norbert Wiener 1Richard Hamilton 1Søren Brier 1Stewart Brand 1Teeny Duchamp 1Walter Hopps 1William Copley 1Anthony Summers 1Daniel Ellsberg 1David Corn 1David Ray Griffin 1David Talbot 1Eric Hufschmid 1Erik Hoffman 1