Last April I made a post here called Kennedy Assassination Jokes, a whimsical item recounting the lighter side of assassination criticism.
It just occurred to me that I left out one of my favorite examples.
Renatus Hartogs was a New York shrink who examined Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was a truant teenager in the 1950s. Though a decade had since elapsed, this was good enough for the Warren Commission to call him as an expert witness. Hartogs dutifully told the Commission that the teenage Oswald was "dangerous," even though his contemporaneous report did not say that.
Cashing in on his Commission appearance, Hartogs co-authored a book about Oswald called The Two Assassins. In it Hartogs said, among other things, that the letters in Oswald's pseudonym, Alek J. Hidell, could almost be re-arranged to form "Jekyll-Hyde." (The pseudonym lacked two instances of the letter y.)
Sylvia Meagher called The Two Assassins "a contemptible piece of garbage." In a published review, she noted that the letters in the name "Renatus Hartogs" could themselves be re-arranged to these phrases: "Trash outrages," and "Strange Authors."
Meagher dreamed up a third anagram, but her editor insisted it be cut: "Thor's Great Anus."
