Americans were fed the story of Timothy McVeigh’s trial and execution as a simple, unquestionable narrative: he was guilty, he was evil, and he acted largely alone. Gore Vidal’s 1998 Vanity Fair essay on the erosion of the U.S. Bill of Rights caused McVeigh to begin a three-year correspondence with Vidal, prompting an examination of certain evidence that points to darker truths—a conspiracy willfully ignored by F.B.I. investigators, and a possible cover-up by a government waging a secret war on the liberty of its citizens.
Vanity Fair har samlat några av Gore Vidals bästa texter för att hedra hans minne. Läste den om Timothy McVeigh tidigare idag, och vilken text det är.
Jag heter Hans G Andersson och är programchef på SVT interaktiv. Förutom hyggligt löpande 