A lot of my idealism was frustrated by the end of the '60s because of the way things went with the assassinations… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one. He had… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
The entire American media apparatus bought into the drug war - which is an enormously damaging and costly undertaking for this country - and… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“It was like somebody had sprinkled fairy dust on the whole city,” said Cheryl Bertelli, one of Maud’s delirious patrons.” — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time -… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
While I'm critical to the Bush presidency, it's been enormously beneficial for Salon because we're seen as kind of an aggressive watchdog on the… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays. — David Talbot Copy Share Image
“city’s anthem, “I Left My Heart in San Francisco,” was written in 1954 by two gay lovers who were pining for “the city by… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
![“Everything leads me to believe it,” he replied. “They got their hands on this communist who wasn’t one, while still being one. He had a sub par intellect and was an exalted fanatic—just the man they needed, the perfect one to be accused. . . . The guy ran away, because he probably became suspicious. They wanted to kill him on the spot before he could be grabbed by the judicial system. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen exactly the way they had probably planned it would. . . . But a trial, you realize, is just terrible. People would have talked. They would have dug up so much! They would have unearthed everything. Then the security forces went looking for [a clean-up man] they totally controlled, and who couldn’t refuse their offer, and that guy sacrificed himself to kill the fake assassin—supposedly in defense of Kennedy’s memory! “Baloney! Security forces all over the world are the same when they do this kind of dirty work. As soon as they succeed in wiping out the false assassin, they declare that the justice system no longer need be concerned, that no further public action was needed now that the guilty perpetrator was dead. Better to assassinate an innocent man than to let a civil war break out. Better an injustice than disorder. “America is in danger of upheavals. But you’ll see. All of them together will observe the law of silence. They will close ranks. They’ll do everything to stifle any scandal. They will throw Noah’s cloak over these shameful deeds. In order to not lose face in front of the whole world. In order to not risk unleashing riots in the United States. In order to preserve the union and to avoid a new civil war. In order to not ask themselves questions. They don’t want to know. They don’t want to find out. They won’t allow themselves to find out.” These astonishing observations about Dallas were captured in Peyrefitte’s memoir, C’était de Gaulle (It Was de Gaulle), which was published in France in 2002, three years after the author’s death. Snippets of the conversation appeared in the U.S. press, but the book was not translated and published in America, and de Gaulle’s remarks about the Kennedy assassination were never fully reported outside of France. A” quote by David Talbot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ce/david-talbot-11147_civil-war_everything-leads-me-to-believe-it-he-rep_305868.jpg)
