Why did it work on Kronberg? When I read the briefing memo that triggered his suicide, I immediately remembered the LaRouche organization’s carefully crafted Get Dennis King campaign in 1980–and what I felt when they delivered their coup de grace: a phone call from one of the women in the organization’s W. 58th Street office asking, “Dennis, haven’t you committed suicide yet?”

The shock I experienced from this phone call and preceding events quickly turned into anger and outrage, but this might not have been the case if I had faced the terrible kind of bind that Kronberg would face 27 years later. The suicide suggestion to him came not from an anonymous member of a group he disdained–as was the case with me–but from a man he had regarded with great reverence for over 30 years and from the organization that had been the center of his life during that entire period. Thus, I suspect, he could not turn his feelings outwards against his tormentors very easily, and his outrage and pain rebounded upon himself.    Also note, for the record, that some pages have been pulled from Larouche’s website.  This one, for instance.

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