I am not "spouting" "lies."
You are unutterably rude.
If I am wrong, and what Reagan did was report on his reaction to some films he had seen, then a cruel and elaborate hoax has, indeed, been perpetrated, and I owe Reagan and his supporters an apology for having been a dupe of it.
This is what the records shows happened. If it is not a hoax, you owe me an apology. The sources is the same Garry Wills book I mentioned earlier, p l68.
"On November 29, 1983, speaking in the Oval Office to Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Ragan said that he had been assigned... to the filming of Nazi death camps for the Signal Corps. He kept one film [he claimed] because he felt... that the authenticity of the Holocaust would one day be questioned, and sure enough, one day he had to show the film to convince a skeptic. The story was so movingly told that Shamir repeated it in detail to his Cabinet, from which the Jerusalem newspaper Ma'ariv printed it...
Two and a half months [after the Shamir meeting] Reagan told... the same story... [to Simon Weisenthal and a visiting Rabbi, that he had personally photographed the death camps for the Signal Corps.]"
This telling of the story was brought to the attention of Joanne Omang of the Washinton Post. Wills continues:
"She thought that interesting, but not news... But when she next saw Cannon, Reagan's biographer, at the office of the Post, she asked why he never mentioned to her that Reagan had photographed the death camps. Because he didn't, said Cannon; he was never out of the country during the war."
Wills goes on to tell how Cannon had had the story confirmed. |
