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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Review of Countdown 1960 - Part 2

Incredibly, Wallace uses Judy Exner and Sy Hersh as crucial sources to create a mythology about the election of 1960. Apparently not knowing that Hersh's book and Exner had already been discredited. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Review of Countdown 1960 - Part 1

Chris Wallace has assembled a truly awful book about the election of 1960 that uses very dubious sources in order to inflate Nixon and deflate Kennedy. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

Gagné Desperately Dispenses CPR for the Lone Gunman (Part 2)

In part 2 of this article, Dr. David W. Mantik continues his point-by-point responses to Michel Jacques Gagné’s analysis in the new book Thinking Critically about the Kennedy Assassination (2022...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

Gagné Desperately Dispenses CPR for the Lone Gunman (Part 1)

David W. Mantik responds to one of the newest books defending the Warren Commission, Thinking Critically about the Kennedy Assassination (2022) by Michel Jacques Gagné, with a genuine demonstration of...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

JFK VS LBJ: The MSM in Overdrive

The efforts by the mainstream media to malign the accomplishments and legacy of President Kennedy continue in force almost 60 years after his death, so Jim DiEugenio expands his new series thwarting t...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martin Hay

The JFK Assassination Dissected by Cyril Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann

Martin Hay assesses The JFK Assassination Dissected by Dr. Cyril Wecht and Dawna Kaufmann and considers it a mostly worthwhile first or second book for anyone developing an interest in the subject, bu...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Michel Gagne: On Not thinking Critically

Jim DiEugenio dips into the mire and provides a mercifully brief and even somewhat generous review of Michel Jacques Gagne ironically named book, Thinking Critically about the Kennedy Assassination, w...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

JFK: Case Not Closed

Jim DiEugenio reviews the recently released collaboration between Dave O’Brien and KennedysAndKing contributor Johnny Cairns entitled JFK Case NOT Closed: Key Evidence Dismissed, Ignored, Altere...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

How the MSM Blew the JFK Case, Part Two

Persisting in our probe into the complicity and participation of the mainstream media (MSM) in the enduring cover-up of the Kennedy assassination, Jim DiEugenio reviews Joseph McBride’s new book...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

How the MSM Blew the JFK Case, Part One

As we continue our analysis of the way the mainstream media (MSM) has reacted to Oliver Stone’s new documentary, Jim DiEugenio provides further background by reviewing Jim DeBrosse’s inter...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Michael Le Flem

Review of Greg Poulgrain’s JFK vs Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia

Lauding its brilliant dramatic conceit along with copious and fresh source material and alluring insights, Michael LeFlem reviews Dr. Greg Poulgrain’s JFK vs Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Alecia Long Lays an Egg

Nearly 55 years after the New Orleans inquiry into the JFK assassination began, yet another character assassination of Jim Garrison has been published, Alecia Long’s Cruising for Conspirators, s...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Into the Storm, by John Newman

Jim DiEugenio reviews John Newman’s latest volume on the JFK case, Into the Storm, finding it a bit uneven, but very well done in its analysis of how the CIA switched back their plots to kill Ca...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Operation Dragon

Jim DiEugenio takes an incisive look at Operation Dragon, by former CIA Director James Woolsey and the late Ion Mihai Pacepa, and concludes that, due to being riddled with errors and marred by unwarra...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Kennedy’s Avenger?

Jim DiEugenio reviews Dan Abrams latest book, Kennedy’s Avenger, by highlighting what it got right, correcting what it got wrong, and exposing the crucial aspects of the case that it simply left...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Last Second in Dallas, part 2

In the second and concluding part of his mixed review, Jim DiEugenio addresses the way Last Second in Dallas handles the photographic, medical and acoustics evidence, and finds the book seriously flaw...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Last Second in Dallas, part 1

Jim DiEugenio writes part 1 of his mixed review of Josiah Thompson’s new book on the JFK case, Last Second in Dallas, by summarizing the first-person journey, recounted by Thompson, that led to ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cold War

Jim DiEugenio reviews Greg Parker’s unusual, provocative, and insightful two-volume work entitled Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cold War and traces the Cold War timeline and progression through the ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Morley v. CIA

Recognizing the significant contributions to JFK research made by mainstream journalist Jefferson Morley, Jim DiEugenio reviews his recent e-book, Morley v. CIA: My Unfinished JFK Investigation, and ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

John Newman’s JFK and Vietnam, 2017 version

While working on Oliver Stone’s upcoming documentary, Jim DiEugenio consulted the 2nd edition of John Newman’s ground-breaking book, JFK and Vietnam, and now takes the opportunity to revie...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Michael Kazin and the NY Review vs JFK

Jim DiEugenio redresses the historical and academic dishonesty of Michael Kazin’s thinly veiled screed against President John F. Kennedy under the guise of a review of a biography that only cove...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Vince Palamara

Zero Fail: Déjà vu All Over Again

Vince Palamara laments the resurrection of the “Kennedy ordered the Secret Service off of the back of the limousine” myth in Carol Leonnig’s new book Zero Fail and details some bizar...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

The Woman who Predicted JFK’s Assassination

Jim DiEugenio reviews Michael Marcades’ second edition of his book about his mother Rose Cherami, who predicted Kennedy’s assassination before it happened. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Randy Robertson

A final response to the rebuttal of my review of the book Last Second in Dallas

Randy Robertson responds to the rebuttal of his review of Josiah Thompson’s book Last Second in Dallas (LSD) authored by Gary Aguilar MD, Doug Desalles MD, and Bill Simpich, in an attempt to cor...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Milicent Cranor

A Slice of Time: Review of Josiah Thompson’s Last Second in Dallas

Milicent Cranor determines that, despite its flaws, Last Second in Dallas is a stimulating book about an eternal puzzle concerning the confounding details of this monumental murder. Josiah Thompson&rs...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Fred Litwin Smooches Clay Shaw’s Lawyers

Jim DiEugenio calls into question the credibility of Fred Litwin’s primary sources for his book On the Trail of Delusion by exposing the clear deceptions of Clay Shaw’s lawyers regarding S...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Matt Douthit

Fred Litwin on the Facts of the JFK Case

Matt Douthit reviews Fred Litwin’s book, I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak, chapter-by-chapter with respect to the facts of the case as they stand today. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

The Devil is in the Details: By Malcolm Blunt with Alan Dale

Malcolm Blunt may, in fact, be the most important little-known JFK researcher of our generation. Jim DiEugenio uses this review of Alan Dale’s excellent new oral history, The Devil is in the Det...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Randy Robertson

A Review of Last Second in Dallas by Josiah Thompson

Randy Robertson examines Josiah Thompson’s new book chapter-by-chapter with an emphasis on the acoustic and medical evidence and finds that, despite its flaws, Last Second in Dallas presents new...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martin Hay

Last Second in Dallas by Josiah Thompson

Martin Hay surveys Josiah Thompson’s history as a JFK assassination researcher and then reviews his new book Last Second in Dallas, which he believes lives up to the promise of its title and est...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Fred Litwin, On the Trail of Delusion - Part Three

Litiwn’s Follies Continued: Starring Hugh Aynesworth and Harry Connick. With smear jobs on Oliver Stone, Fletcher Prouty and Michele Metta. And guess what? LBJ’s own recorded words don&rs...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Fred Litwin, On the Trail of Delusion – Part Two

Litwin’s Follies about Pierre FInck, Shaw/Bertrand, the FBI cover-up of Clay Shaw, the lies of Kerry Thornley, and James Angleton’s Black Tape operation. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Fred Litwin, On the Trail of Delusion – Part One

Yawn. Litwin character assassinates Jim Garrison, while concealing FBI and CIA interference in his investigation; he tops that off by whitewashing David Ferrie. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rob Couteau

The Stanley Marks Revival: The Prophecies of Murder Most Foul! and Two Days of Infamy

Rob Couteau continues his rediscovery and revitalization of the long-forgotten works of Stanley Marks by announcing the reprinting of Murder Most Foul! and Two Days of Infamy and exploring here the pr...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

I was NOT a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak

David Mantik reviews Fred Litwin’s I was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak by examining 44 different claims from the book and refuting each one using readily available evidence that Litwin appears ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Dr. Aldo Mariotto

Bugliosi on the Kennedy Autopsy: Twenty shades of pride and prejudice

Dr. Aldo Mariotto reviews Vincent Bugliosi’s chapter on President Kennedy’s autopsy in Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and determines that Bugliosi is th...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jeff Carter

Henry Wallace, JFK, and The Nation

Jeff Carter examines John Nichols’ new book, The Fight For The Soul of the Democratic Party, in light of Donald Gibson’s ground-breaking book, Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency,...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Matt Stevenson, Counterpunch, and Double Cross

After engaging with Matt Stevenson of CounterPunch in the past by countering his Vietnam myths, Jim DiEugenio now confronts a recent article of his referencing Mafia involvement in the election of 196...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Paul Bleau

Gary Hill’s The Other Oswald: A Wilderness of Mirrors

Paul Bleau reviews Gary Hill’s new book, The Other Oswald: A Wilderness of Mirrors, and assesses the new evidence that suggests Robert Webster and Lee Harvey Oswald both had links to the MKULTRA...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rob Couteau

Stanley Marks and Murder Most Foul! — A Sequel to “The Kennedy / Dylan Sensation”

Since Bob Dylan used the same title for his new song on the JFK assassination as the Stanley Marks’ 1967 book, Murder Most Foul!, Rob Couteau reviews this little known and hard to find book and ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

The House of Kennedy, by James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen

Jim DiEugenio assesses the historical accuracy of James Patterson and Cynthia Fagen’s The House of Kennedy and discovers the shoddy research and tabloid style of the book make it unfit for readi...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Mark Shaw, Denial of Justice

Shaw's book is largely a combination of recycling Kilgallen’s biographical material, his past writing about Melvin Belli, and trying to sell the reader on his remarkably unconvincing ideas about...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Michael Le Flem

Mal Hyman, Burying the Lead: The Media and the JFK Assassination

“A balanced, engaging, fascinating look at the slimy underbelly of the American power structure and the hired guns of the media who cover up for them,” writes Michael Le Flem.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Paul Bleau

Paul Blake Smith, JFK and the Willard Hotel Plot

Paul Bleau’s critical review of a book which argues that Carlos Marcello led the effort to assassinate JFK, sending Lee Harvey Oswald to Washington as part of a team meant to shoot the president...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

John Newman, Countdown to Darkness, Volume 2

In my opinion, Newman offers one of the best medium-length treatments of the Congo crisis I have read, writes Jim DiEugenio. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Kowalski

The Canadian Archives, Michele Metta, and the latest on Permindex

John Kowalski reviews Michele Metta's book about Permindex, CMC and the role of Italian fascists and freemasons in the JFK assassination, and also looks at the Louis Bloomfield papers and the recent l...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Michael Le Flem

Gayle Nix Jackson, Pieces of the Puzzle: An Anthology, (2017)

Gayle Nix Jackson's 2017 collection of investigative vignettes surrounding the assassination of JFK provides both new evidence for researchers and presents many old facts in a new light. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Michael Le Flem

Major Ralph P. Ganis, The Skorzeny Papers: Evidence for the Plot to Kill JFK

From Michael's conclusion: Ganis’ book is an uncomfortable, freewheeling careen down strange dead-end tracks, with unannounced detours through cold dark streets full of faceless characters, and ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

Robert A. Wagner, The Assassination of JFK: Perspectives Half A Century Later

Dr. Mantik states: “It is unique for me to write a second review, but too much remained unsaid after the first review. Wagner’s book clearly required more attention, especially since his p...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Michael Le Flem

Jim DeBrosse, See No Evil: The JFK Assassination and the U.S. Media

Michael Le Flem reviews a book about reporting on the JFK case by a reporter. The book starts out quite strong and rigorous, but about halfway through it goes off the rails. But the first part is wort...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Jefferson Morley, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton

The strength of the book lies in the tracing of the Oswald files through the CIA under Angleton’s dominion. No book on Angleton has done this before. And that is certainly a commendable achievem...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Frank Cassano

Kevin James Shay, Death of the Rising Sun: A Search for Truth in the JFK Assassination

The main reason why I am recommending this book is because it’s out there … I would much rather [regular, everyday people] bought a book like this one, than, say, one by Bill O’Reil...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martin Hay

Robert A. Wagner, The Assassination of JFK: Perspectives Half A Century Later

There is a long list of books about which it can be rightly said they have added nothing to our understanding of JFK’s murder because their authors placed their conclusions first and then twiste...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Arnaldo M. Fernandez

Antonio Veciana, with Carlos Harrison, Trained to Kill (2)

What the Bishop-Veciana-Oswald connection may actually have involved could be hidden among the 1,100 long-suppressed CIA records related to the JFK assassination, including four of Phillips’ ope...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joseph E. Green

Antonio Veciana, with Carlos Harrison, Trained to Kill (1)

An "incredibly improbable memoir ..., and the most incredible thing is how much of the story is demonstrably true", remarks Joseph Green, who further observes that "the author adopts a straightforward...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jeff Carter

Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film (Part 2)

In the second installment of this book review/essay, Jeff Carter focuses on questions of authenticity, alteration, and the NPIC analyses which occurred over the week-end of the assassination but which...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Jeff Carter

Alexandra Zapruder, Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film (Part 1)

The first in a two-part installment in which Jeff Carter reviews a book that "reveals some new – albeit not earth-shattering – information", but is also "imbued with a certain partisanship...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Was Dorothy Kilgallen Murdered over the JFK Case?

If Shaw had restrained himself, or if he had had an editor to point out the problems with his design, then this would have been a good and valuable book about Dorothy Kilgallen:  who she really w...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Bruce Riedel, JFK’s Forgotten Crisis

  After reading [this book], I was able to understand what this was all about—at least in a fundamental way. Also, my respect for President John F. Kennedy, which was already estimable,

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Joan Mellen, Faustian Bargains

  A book rich in information which debunks the claims that Lyndon Johnson and Mac Wallace planned the JFK assassination, and includes an expert review of the fingerprint evidence demonstrating

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

An Introduction to the Book Excerpt: The Incubus of Intervention

Presentation by Jim DiEugenio of an excerpt from Greg Poulgrain's book on the Indonesia coup. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Greg Poulgrain, The Incubus of Intervention

Jim DiEugenio calls this book "a provocative revisionist history of why the epochal coup in Indonesia happened as it did in 1965 ... [and which] has enlightened us on the crucial figures of Allen Dull...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Jeffrey H. Caufield, M. D., General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy

If the reader is interested in knowledge about the inner workings of the radical right back in the fifties or sixties, then this is a useful book. But as far as relating that group to the murder of JF...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

John Newman, Where Angels Tread Lightly, Volume 1

What the author is doing has three layers.  First, he is giving us a history of the Castro revolution.  At the same time he is showing how the USA reacted to that epochal turnover, stage by ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

David Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard

A major achievement, its stark excavation of the evil [Allen Dulles] represented surpassing Kai Bird's biography of John McCloy, writes Jim DiEugenio. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Greg Parker

Greg Parker, Lee Harvey Oswald’s Cold War: Why the Kennedy Assassination Should Be Reinvestigated

An excerpt from the second volume of Greg Parker's study of the historical context for Lee Harvey Oswald's intelligence-related activities.         ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

John T. Shaw, JFK in the Senate

In light of the recent developments in our understanding of JFK's foreign policy vision, Jim DiEugenio writes: "In sum, this is not a bad book. And I think some of its faults can be explained by Shaw&...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Gary Aguilar

Flip de Mey, Cold Case Kennedy: A New Investigation Into the Assassination of JFK (2013)

Flip de Mey’s well written and entertaining book makes valuable contributions. But in the end it must be said it is far from completely satisfactory. However, there is great material in the bo

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Ed Souza, Undeniable Truths

About the first fifty pages of Undeniable Truths is pretty much undeniable. The next fifty pages are a decided mixture of truth and question marks. Most of the last 200 pages do not at all merit the t...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martin Hay

Ballistics and Baloney: Lucien Haag and the JFK Assassination

Martin Hay reviews an article published by Haag in AFTE, about which he concludes: "It is little wonder ... that Lucien Haag limited his defense of the 'Magic' Bullet Theory to a (misleading) discussi...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Andrew Cohen, Two Days in June: John F. Kennedy and the 48 Hours that Made History

What could have been an important and sterling volume is seriously compromised with a lot of litter. Instead of being up there with Rakove and Muehlenbeck, it stands a couple of steps downward, with T...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Vasilios Vazakas

Charles E. Hurlburt, It's Time For The Truth! The JFK Cover-up: The Real Crime of the Century

This book is really an entry level book for the novice, an overview of the assassination that tries to touch all of its aspects. ... Its major themes, like the shooting sequence and the identification...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Michael Swanson, The War State

A valuable Big Picture book, one with many new sources for study, which bring in much fascinating information. The light [Swanson] sheds on men like Nitze and Acheson show just what hollow clowns the ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Jean Davison, Oswald's Game

Oswald's Game really tells us more about the biases and obsessions of Jean Davison on the Kennedy case than it does about its ostensible subject. Which is really the worst thing one can say about a bi...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Jeff Greenfield, If Kennedy Lived

The once progressive co-author of A Populist Manifesto with this book has written the worst kind of alternative history, one seriously colored by the view from the present, and more specifically, of t...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Jeffrey Sachs, To Move The World

    Jim DiEugenio reviews Columbia University economist and author Jeffrey Sachs' latest book, which examines Kennedy's famous 1963 American University speech.       

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

Harrison E. Livingstone, Panjandrum: Secrets of the JFK X-rays

[Livingstone] was once a heroic pioneer in the medical evidence. His books (and Lifton's contributions, too) were invaluable introductions for me. For that I am still grateful to both. Unfortunately, ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Robert Rakove, Kennedy, Johnson and the Nonaligned World

Taken as a whole, this is a valuable book. When coupled with Muehlenbeck's Betting on the Africans, much needed light has now been cast over the specifics of Kennedy's dealings with the Third World: h...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Robert Groden, Absolute Proof

Bob Groden has been a true champion of the case for the public. He has devoted much of his adult life trying to show that the Warren Commission was nothing but a sham meant to conceal the true facts o...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Vincent M. Palamara, Survivor's Guilt

At the end, Palamara lists a very good chronicle of failures by the Secret Service in Dallas. It goes on for three pages. It is very provocative and even disturbing. The author uses it to crystallize ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Gokay Hasan Yusuf

Dale Myers, With Malice (Part 2)

The second and concluding installment of a long and detailed critique of Myer's arguments for Oswald's culpability in the Tippit murder. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Gokay Hasan Yusuf

Dale Myers, With Malice (Part 1)

The first installment of a long and detailed critique of Myer's arguments for Oswald's culpability in the Tippit murder. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Joseph McBride

Dale Myers, With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J. D. Tippit

Joseph McBride replies to Dale Myer's crticisms, concluding: "I am hardly surprised to be subjected to the same basically irrelevant treatment by an author who either refuses to deal seriously with th...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Robert Dallek, Camelot's Court / An Unfinished Life

Dallek has designed both of his books along the lines that Larry Sabato did in The Kennedy Half Century. They are not full and complete works which try and capture all nuances and tendencies in an obj...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Larry Sabato, The Kennedy Half Century

Except for where he notes some of the problems with the JFK assassination's evidentiary record, this book is pretty much not just without distinction, but so agenda driven as to be misleading. On the ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Martin Hay

Howard P. Willens, History Will Prove Us Right

Author Martin Hay writes about Warren Commission lawyer Howard Willens and his continued belief in the conclusions of the Warren Report. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Vasilios Vazakas

Jerome Corsi, Who Really Killed Kennedy?

Despite its mistakes this is a decent enough book for the novice and general public who are not aware of the machinations of deep politics and JFK assassination case, writes Vasilios Vazakas. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Mike Swanson

Larry Sabato, the Kennedy Assassination, and the Rise of the Post-Modern Sound Bite Scholar

Self-promotion by adopting the right talking points characterizes the work of people like Sabato, eager to become televised mouthpieces of establishment propaganda in an age of dying empire, writes Mi...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
David Mantik

John McAdams, JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy – Three Reviews (1)

I was seriously disappointed by this book ... because it fell so far short of its announced goals (of explaining and promoting critical thinking), writes David Mantik. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Philip Shenon, A Cruel and Shocking Act

If one wants to read the real story behind what happened inside the Warren Commission, read Inquest or Breach of Trust, not this book, writes Jim DiEugenio. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

When Tony Summers Fell in Love with Patricia Lambert

Jim DiEugenio writes of how the author of what was a good book on the JFK case when it first came out has subsequently held less tenable views of both John Kennedy and his assassination, and how he bl...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Gokay Hasan Yusuf

James DiEugenio, Reclaiming Parkland

Jim DiEugenio's second book on the JFK assassination, which takes Bugliosi's pretentious and inflated bag of obfuscation as its framework for dismantling the Warren Commission, the Clark Panel, and th...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Frank Cassano

Jesse Ventura, They Killed our President

This book may well represent the high point of Jesse's legacy ... We can all be thankful of the fact that he felt compelled to commit his power and influence toward noble causes, rather than sell his ...

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William LeBlanc, CFCSI

Sherry Fiester, Enemy of the Truth: Myths, Forensics, and the Kennedy Assassination

Sherry Fiester [uses] established science-based protocols to determine events and causalities, not to search for manufactured support of an a priori conclusion, write LeBlanc and Dragoo. ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Betting on the Africans

By showing the difference between Kennedy and what came before and after him, [Muehlenbeck] helps us understand why the prime minister of Somalia later said that "the memory of Kennedy is always alive...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
James DiEugenio

Thurston Clarke, JFK's Last Hundred Days

This is a kind of odd book. Even for the MSM. Clarke and his cohorts seem to be just catching up to what people in the know understood about Kennedy decades ago. But only now, in 2013 can this be reve...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
William Davy

Mark North, Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy

After reading this volume, the only apparent betrayal will be to the consumer who plunks down $25.00 for this mess, complains Bill Davy.        

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Joseph E. Green

Philip Nelson, LBJ Mastermind of JFK's Assassination

It would not necessarily be surprising ... if [LBJ] had foreknowledge or tacitly approved of the assassination. ... I do not think, however, that at this date ... an explanation which ignores the larg...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Vasilios Vazakas

H. P. Albarelli Jr., A Secret Order: Investigating the High Strangeness and Synchronicity in the JFK Assassination

[This] book is more about the CIA's nefarious and illegal operations, including the MK/ULTRA project. If you are interested in learning more about the shadowy world of the CIA, this is a good book. If...

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Seamus Coogan

Saint John Hunt, The Bonds of Secrecy

In the early days after the Rolling Stone article appeared, it appears that [Saint John] and his brother actually had a good deal of skepticism towards what their father had told him about the mechani...

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