In a rare interview on Monday with the Czech CTK news agency, Mr. Kundera also accused the news media of committing "the assassination of an author".
Whether Oswald, given his clear disposition towards killing an American leader, was prodded or otherwise induced into committing the assassination was the question that vexed American intelligence after the shooting.
However, no can correctly fathom the personal trauma the family had to undergo, though the anger of the collective nation against the Sikh community, whose members committed the assassination, and the angst of the world on that day will never be erased from living memory.
But the Palestinian belief that the men were agents -- and that they had been sent to commit an assassination at the funeral -- circulated and riled up the crowd.
An example in point (but where the group was a number of Louisiana businessmen) was New Orleans DA Jim Garrison's prosecution of Clay Shaw for conspiracy to commit murder in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Thus, the Christian Zionist lobby had successfully cleared the way for Israel to commit targeted assassinations on the leaders of the Palestinian movements.
To do so, he added, the Germans "did not hesitate to commit character assassination on a country and on individual people".
Prosecutor Tim Reardon called the conspiracy to commit assassination "a deadly serious crime aimed at the heart of the criminal justice system".
A complete list would include four pistols (one used to commit an assassination in Germany), sniper rifles, night-vision equipment and special vans outfitted with surveillance equipment.
Mr. Flender, the director, who has known Mr. O'Brien since the two were undergraduates at Harvard in the 1980s, said in a telephone interview that he did not set out to create a puff piece or commit character assassination but simply wanted to depict Mr. O'Brien as he is.
