A ground-breaking work on the JFK assassination, showing through photographic evidence the existence of 2 Lee Harvey Oswalds. CD has high resolution photographs for researchers and historians to study.
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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By Sonny Laskin
Format:Hardcover
I have read lots of books on Kennedy assination speculation. Armstrong main thesis in this book is about the double Oswald theory and who the two double Oswald's were. He even goes further and he says there were two Margurite Oswalds put in place to keep this double Oswald CIA project going. I have read books about the double Oswald theory before Armstrong wrote his book, like Richard Popkin's the Second Oswald and Rob Cutlar and WR Morris's book Alias Oswald. And even Jim Maars dedicated a whole chapter to the theory in his book Crossfire.
I have to commend Armstrong on his in depth research in this book. Armstrong really has gone through the opened FBI files of thousands and thousand of pages when they were opened to the public in '78 regarding the keneddy assasination. Armstrong is definetly on to something here of two oswalds and two margurites when he cites evidence after evidence (a lot of real estate records, and eye witness of accounts of two different oswalds and margurites) of double Oswalds. He speculates this was a CIA project to get one Oswald (a hungarian american who knew how to speak Hungarian therefore he picked up learning Russian very quickly) into the USSR as a defector using the real Oswald's name and identity. If you were the USSR and you were some american born Hungarian named Korovich would'nt you think he was a CIA plant if he was trying to defect to your country. Therefore the need to have two Oswalds to complete this project. This Hungarian american Oswald was working for the CIA and his mission was to collect data once he got into the USSR. Armstong cites a lot of factual evidence to back this up. Ok, this might sound ridiculous to some people who live in todays world of Google satilites and youtube videos of people all over the world. But in 1959 besides U2 recon flights nobody in the US knew anything on what was going on in Russia. I give this book four stars and overall like the evidence. But there is too much background data on inconsequential events and it does seem like Armstrong rambles a bit. There are inconstincies in dates and evidence but overall Armstrong is really onto something here.
Also, don't buy this book on amazon or ebay. Their quoted prices (anywhere depending on the day from $100-$300). You can buy this at the Last Hurrah Bookshop for $60-$70. Their number is 570-321-1150. Their website is [...]. the book is'nt on the website so your going to have to give them a call to order. hope this review helps anyone interested in this unique take on the Kennedy Assasination and the forces behind it.
I have to commend Armstrong on his in depth research in this book. Armstrong really has gone through the opened FBI files of thousands and thousand of pages when they were opened to the public in '78 regarding the keneddy assasination. Armstrong is definetly on to something here of two oswalds and two margurites when he cites evidence after evidence (a lot of real estate records, and eye witness of accounts of two different oswalds and margurites) of double Oswalds. He speculates this was a CIA project to get one Oswald (a hungarian american who knew how to speak Hungarian therefore he picked up learning Russian very quickly) into the USSR as a defector using the real Oswald's name and identity. If you were the USSR and you were some american born Hungarian named Korovich would'nt you think he was a CIA plant if he was trying to defect to your country. Therefore the need to have two Oswalds to complete this project. This Hungarian american Oswald was working for the CIA and his mission was to collect data once he got into the USSR. Armstong cites a lot of factual evidence to back this up. Ok, this might sound ridiculous to some people who live in todays world of Google satilites and youtube videos of people all over the world. But in 1959 besides U2 recon flights nobody in the US knew anything on what was going on in Russia. I give this book four stars and overall like the evidence. But there is too much background data on inconsequential events and it does seem like Armstrong rambles a bit. There are inconstincies in dates and evidence but overall Armstrong is really onto something here.
Also, don't buy this book on amazon or ebay. Their quoted prices (anywhere depending on the day from $100-$300). You can buy this at the Last Hurrah Bookshop for $60-$70. Their number is 570-321-1150. Their website is [...]. the book is'nt on the website so your going to have to give them a call to order. hope this review helps anyone interested in this unique take on the Kennedy Assasination and the forces behind it.
22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
By Curt Jester
Format:Hardcover
I have read, and read Armstrong's book. It is full of new investigations in LHO and all of his contacts, which were generally dismissed right away by the Warren Commission. All the records (military, school, all areas of acuaintences (including family), the interviews about 'LHO' that were never researched before are here and well documented. The book isn't the best edited piece of work I have ever seen, but it's a JFK rearchers dream. It's written, not in topic order especially, but Chonological Order, from when Armstrong thinks the gov't was into making CIA projects a viable commodity. Oswald's CIA activities to even his relative CIA Op visiting him in that secret CIA base which Oswald was in at Atsugi, Japan are not left out, and very well explored. The Intro or Prologue are indeed inviting, as it speaks of Conspiracy before conspiracy from LHO himself in a great time period before the assassination to one Will Fritz of the Dallas Police Department fame that was the chief interrogator of the 'arrested LHO'. He cites that fact from the WC itself. So, if you want to know more about Oswald(s), and the intense 'setting-ups' of the arrested Oswald for the killing of one JFK, this is the one that you need to have, and will never put down.
CJ
CJ
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The most fascinating -- and deeply researched -- book you'll ever read
February 4, 2011
Format:Hardcover
I have been studying the JFK assassination for almost thirty years and by now have read scores of books on the case.
But why am I even mentioning this? John Armstrong's phenomenal "Harvey and Lee" does NOT deal with the actual assassination of Presiudent Kennedy! In its pages you will find no treatment of the ballistic or medical evidence nor any forays into the identification of exactly who fired the shots.
Rather, what you WILL find in this massive, profoundly-researched book is the result of years of private research performed by a great American named John Armstrong, a successful businessman who attended a college class in Texas on the assassination and who subsequently became intrigued by the "two Oswalds" theory that Professor Richard Popkin and other early researchers first posited during the 1960s.
Amazingly, at his own expense Armstrong literally traveled all over not only the U.S. but also the globe to personally interview people who'd had direct contact with the figure[s] known as "Lee Harvey Oswald" and -- perhaps even more importantly -- to obtain the ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS related to the case, many of which had never before seen the light of day or been published in any other book. (Early on the author discusses his belief that researchers should not rely on the work of others but should instead go to the original documents and evidence. Armstrong certainly practiced what he preaches, and the reader is all the more the winner for it.)
Armstrong's most essential finding -- backed-up by huge amounts of evidence, images of a small portion of which are contained on a CD which accompanies the book -- is that there were two "Lee Harvey Oswalds," a U.S.-born one who he refers to as "Lee" and a (likely foreign-born) one referred to as "Harvey." They are very, very close in appearance, so much so that, not surprisingly, those who'd had contact with them both could only harbor the slightest suspicion that they were actually two different people.
Sounds crazy, right? Absolutely.
However, as Armstrong discusses in an early chapter of the book, substituting twins or unrelated "doubles" for one another is a longstanding technique used by intelligence services; in fact, Armstrong provides examples of intelligence services' usage of just such "doubles" as recently as the 1960s (Castro's Cuba) which the reader can easily verify.
I will not continue this now hardly-brief discussion of "Harvey and Lee" because I could never come close to even tangentially touching on the truly phenomenal amount of new information provided and interviews analyzed in this book. Do yourself a favor and check out clips of some of the YouTube.com videos Armstrong did with people who had direct, personal contact with one or both of the two "Lee Harvey Oswalds."
Again, this book contains ZERO information about the actual assassination, yet in my view it is, most ironically, the hands-down most utterly intriguing and most painstakingly research-based book on, or relating to, "the case" I have ever read (and I've read the almost-1000 page book twice, although I'm planning to re-read it soon.)
But why am I even mentioning this? John Armstrong's phenomenal "Harvey and Lee" does NOT deal with the actual assassination of Presiudent Kennedy! In its pages you will find no treatment of the ballistic or medical evidence nor any forays into the identification of exactly who fired the shots.
Rather, what you WILL find in this massive, profoundly-researched book is the result of years of private research performed by a great American named John Armstrong, a successful businessman who attended a college class in Texas on the assassination and who subsequently became intrigued by the "two Oswalds" theory that Professor Richard Popkin and other early researchers first posited during the 1960s.
Amazingly, at his own expense Armstrong literally traveled all over not only the U.S. but also the globe to personally interview people who'd had direct contact with the figure[s] known as "Lee Harvey Oswald" and -- perhaps even more importantly -- to obtain the ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS related to the case, many of which had never before seen the light of day or been published in any other book. (Early on the author discusses his belief that researchers should not rely on the work of others but should instead go to the original documents and evidence. Armstrong certainly practiced what he preaches, and the reader is all the more the winner for it.)
Armstrong's most essential finding -- backed-up by huge amounts of evidence, images of a small portion of which are contained on a CD which accompanies the book -- is that there were two "Lee Harvey Oswalds," a U.S.-born one who he refers to as "Lee" and a (likely foreign-born) one referred to as "Harvey." They are very, very close in appearance, so much so that, not surprisingly, those who'd had contact with them both could only harbor the slightest suspicion that they were actually two different people.
Sounds crazy, right? Absolutely.
However, as Armstrong discusses in an early chapter of the book, substituting twins or unrelated "doubles" for one another is a longstanding technique used by intelligence services; in fact, Armstrong provides examples of intelligence services' usage of just such "doubles" as recently as the 1960s (Castro's Cuba) which the reader can easily verify.
I will not continue this now hardly-brief discussion of "Harvey and Lee" because I could never come close to even tangentially touching on the truly phenomenal amount of new information provided and interviews analyzed in this book. Do yourself a favor and check out clips of some of the YouTube.com videos Armstrong did with people who had direct, personal contact with one or both of the two "Lee Harvey Oswalds."
Again, this book contains ZERO information about the actual assassination, yet in my view it is, most ironically, the hands-down most utterly intriguing and most painstakingly research-based book on, or relating to, "the case" I have ever read (and I've read the almost-1000 page book twice, although I'm planning to re-read it soon.)
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Remarkable Work on the Two Oswalds!!
I could not disagree more strongly with Robert Morrow's negative review of this book. In painstaking detail, John Armstrong catalogues the seemingly endless contradictions in the... Read more
Published 5 months ago by tularosa
2.0 out of 5 stars
There was only ONE Oswald and his name was Lee Harvey Oswald ... and...
ANDY of THE LAST HURRAH BOOKSHOP HAS MANY COPIES OF JOHN ARMSTRONG'S BOOK. CONTACT SOMEONE IN THE JFK RESEARCH COMMUNITY TO GET HIS PHONE NUMBER. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Robert P. Morrow
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE most important book on the JFK assassination
I'll add my voice to those praising this outstanding work. I've read it through several times, and stopped and checked the DVD with it at the appropriate points. Read more
Published 22 months ago by H. Price
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unbelievably Well Researched
There is just one problem with this book: the price. However, Last Hurrah Bookshop has copies of this for around $60 as of May 10, 2011. Read more
Published on May 10, 2011 by Barry Krusch
1.0 out of 5 stars
The only place for this book is in the garbage can.
The fact that ANYONE on the planet read this book and praised it is evidence that the future of mankind is doomed. Read more
Published on September 5, 2010 by S. V. Anderson
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