JFK, LeMay, Mary, and that Fateful Day (Part Two)

(Continued from Part One…)

4. “The shock, for me (Ellsberg), was to realize that the Joint Chiefs were, after all, aware of it. Their planning process was not so mindless of overall consequences as I had come to suppose. It was worse. What was beyond surprising—it was unfathomable—was that they felt they could afford to be so candid about this particula…