9/11 truth activist David Slesinger (www.911courage.org) caught up with historian Howard Zinn (author of A People's History of the United States) after he spoke at Busboys and Poets in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 2, 2009 for an interview about his views on the 9/11 truth movement. Here are some excerpts from Zinn's responses:

"The truth people should have an opportunity to speak their mind and give their evidence. There's always a question at all these rallies and so on, you know, there are twelve different groups or fifteen different groups that want to pursue their agenda. I think it's a question of balance. I don't mind if I'm at a meeting and somebody — at a question period — somebody gets up and asks about 9/11. It happens almost all the time. I would mind it if after I answer that question three other people got up, or that same person went on and on for twenty minutes like the Spartacus Youth League used to do. So it's a matter of proportion.

"I don't want to spend my time pursuing 9/11, but if other people want to spend their time doing it, fine. But I'm not going to urge people to spend their time working on this project because I've always believed — and I still believe — that, certainly for me and for a lot of people, it would be a diversion. I believe there are a lot of important things to do and more important things to do than that. I'm not saying it's totally unimportant, but I'm saying there are more important things to do. Let's put it this way: There are things that happen which are so obviously proven. This 9/11 thing is not easy. I know the 9/11 people think it's proven, but no, it's not easy to prove. It's very complicated. I know because I've looked a little into it, and I said, wow, you have to figure out, you know, what was the debris like, and what was the hole in the Pentagon like, and what do the engineers ...? You know, this is much, much more complicated then saying our airplanes went over this town, dropped bombs and killed 25 civilians. There's no doubt about that. It doesn't waste any time. So it's a matter of degree of certainty about something."