The book is certainly easy to read, and clearly presented. So long as you understand that some of the material is incorrect ... and outdated ..., there is still much to recommend here, writes Lisa Pease.
Jim DiEugenio discusses reactions to his review of Lamar Waldron's Legacy of Secrecy.
Tuesday, 16 June 2009 11:50

Shane O'Sullivan, Who Killed Bobby?

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Jim DiEugenio reviews the RFK assassination book by Shane O'Sullivan, arguing it is better than the documentary by the same title.
Saturday, 25 April 2009 12:15

Lamar Waldron, Ultimate Sacrifice

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One of the most puzzling things about Ultimate Sacrifice is that some have actually taken it seriously. Peter Scott has said it is well documented. My question to Peter: Well-documented with what? Frank Ragano and Ed Partin? If you don't analyze the footnotes you might be impressed, writes Jim DiEugenio.
One thing is clear, if nothing else: there are people who will say anything to promote the lone assassin theory, writes Milicent Cranor.
Friday, 24 April 2009 11:14

Dale Myers Gets Perturbed!

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Jim DiEugenio discusses Dale Myers's reaction to his review of Reclaiming History.
With what the authors have now done to Williams' credibility, plus the near universality of agreement on the true nature of the C -Day plans, the end should be spelled out for this entire "second invasion" thesis, writes Jim DiEugenio.
Author James DiEugenio updates his review of Larry Hancock's Someone Would Have Talked with further observations about the problem of its questionable source material.
Wednesday, 24 September 2008 18:56

Von Pein: Still Cheerleading

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Jim DiEugenio replies to yet more criticisms of his review of Bugliosi's Reclaiming History.
Monday, 01 September 2008 18:59

John Larry Ray & Lyndon Barsten, Truth at Last

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In a book like this, a lot of the credibility must come from the reader's trust in the author(s). Unfortunately, that is not forthcoming here, writes Jim DiEugenio.
Monday, 01 September 2008 17:25

John Newman, Oswald and the CIA (re-issue)

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This remarkable book could never have been composed or even contemplated without the existence of the Assassination Records Review Board. No book takes us more into Oswald's workings with the intelligence community than this one. And his section on Mexico City is clearly one of the 5 or 6 greatest discoveries made in the wake of the ARRB, writes Jim DiEugenio.
Monday, 01 September 2008 17:16

Jefferson Morley, Our Man in Mexico

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The best part of the book deals with Oswald's alleged visits to the Cuban consulate and Russian Embassy in Mexico City in the fall of 1963. This section of the work owes itself to the disclosures of the ARRB. More specifically to the Lopez Report and to John Newman's important book Oswald and the CIA, writes Jim DiEugenio.
Monday, 01 September 2008 15:43

David Kaiser, The Road to Dallas

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The Road to Dallas is a methodically bad book. And as you read it you pick up on the method in its badness. And then at the end you comprehend the reason for it all, writes Jim DiEugenio.
Monday, 01 September 2008 15:31

Gaeton Fonzi, The Last Investigation

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It is not just well-written. In some places it rises to the level of extraordinarily well-written. Almost every chapter is well-planned and organized. And the book as a whole contains a completed aesthetic arc to it, writes Jim DiEugenio.
Monday, 01 September 2008 15:21

George Michael Evica, A Certain Arrogance

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Much of [his] material [on the Paines] is taken from the extraordinary work done on the couple by Carol Hewett, Barbara La Monica, and Steve Jones. As the author notes, this work is so potent that it was attacked by a big gun of the GOP, Thomas Mallon in his pathetic whitewash of a book, Mrs. Paine's Garage, writes Jim DiEugenio.
Monday, 01 September 2008 13:12

Robert Blair Kaiser, RFK Must Die (reissue)

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For anyone interested in the RFK case, try and get the original version of this book. That version is still a valuable work, one worth having and reading, concludes Jim DiEugenio.
Saturday, 22 March 2008 22:27

Larry Hancock, Someone Would Have Talked

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Although there are some interesting and worthwhile aspects to this book, overall I found it really disappointing. It is ... unconvincing in its overall thesis, and uses questionable sources and witnesses to advance parts of its presentation, while leaving out more credible evidence that works against that particular presentation. It pains me to write like this, since I like Mr. Hancock and think he and his organization have done some good work, writes Jim DiEugenio.
The book's use also lies in demonstrating that it may not be possible for one person to fully master, or give a fair accounting of, this impossibly tangled mess of a case, writes Gary Aguilar.

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