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2.0 out of 5 stars
Huh?,
By Ex Libris "Ex Libris" (Washington, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: ASSASSINATIONS - THE MURDERS THAT CHANGED HISTORY (Hardcover)
This is a strange book. It deals with several assassinations. I was
particularly interested in reading about the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The author gives his views on both assassinations. Rather than reporting factually about what happened, the author gives his biased view about what he thinks happened. As for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the author dismisses the possibility that there may have been a conspiracy. The author writes: " But the most fantastic of all theories is that Lincoln's assassination was really plotted by Secretary for War Edwin Stanton, the President's right-hand man during the civil (war) conflict." The author's use of the word "fantastic" speaks volumes. This is not the language of unbiased and impartial writing on history. On the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the author writes: " Basically, the John F. Kennedy assassination facts and chronology are well known and will be repeated here only briefly and when essential. The prosecution case presented on the day after the assassination was that Lee Harvey Oswald , a social misfit who hailed from New York, had taken a rifle to his workplace, the Texas School Book Depository, and from the sixth floor window shot the President of the United States as he drove in an open motorcade towards a triple underpass. " So. Basically................. First published in 1975 this "book" must be the original draft of a putative JFK Assassination for Dummies. Mark Lane, perhaps, the most famous first generation researcher into the JFK assassination comes in for some unwarranted, bitchy and spiteful remarks from the author who refers to Mark Lane as the leader of the "Who Killed Kennedy 'circus' ". This should give any discerning reader of "Assassinations,the murders that changed history " a pretty good idea of where exactly the author is " coming from ". Again, the author's language is hardly what one would expect to find in an unbiased, disinterested and dispassionate account of historic events. One expects better. One is, of course, aware that one cannot expect too much from books of this genre but one feels one has a right to read the facts. If you want a more objective and unprejudiced account of historic assassinations, try Charlotte Greig's " Cold-Blooded Killings " (Capella) or Rodney Castleden's " Assassinations and Conspiracies " (Futura). More of the truth and less of the hatchet job. P.S. Another strange thing about this book is that although the author is referred to in the introduction, his name does not appear anywhere in the book. Now, that IS strange. I think we may have another conspiracy on our hands here, folks.
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