Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case [Paperback]

Harrison Edward Livingstone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1994

Filled with new evidence, a book of shocking disclosures includes how the AMA tried to suppress information, proof that the autopsy doctors fabricated their report, and an interview with the "missing" British nurse who attended Kennedy's body. Reprint. K.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This work is Livingstone's third take on the Kennedy assassination squabbles; he wrote High Treason 2 ( LJ 5/15/92), which was an update of High Treason (Conservatory Pr., 1989). He revisits, yet again, his thesis that JFK's autopsy photos were faked. Sloppy scholarship and argumentative writing destroy whatever merit exits in Livingstone's case. He states that James Hepburn's Farewell America (Frontiers, 1968) "was almost completely suppressed in the United States." Yet a quick check of OCLC reveals that 46 libraries in 26 states own it. After Gerald Posner's Case Closed ( LJ 10/15/93), it is difficult to know what to believe about the JFK assassination. Livingstone states that the media is put off by the disinformation. "They are simply exhausted by thirty years of bullshit." He got that right. Not recommended. See also Gaeton Fonzi's The Last Investigation , reviewed above.--Ed.
- Randall L. Schroeder, Augustana Coll. Lib., Rock Island, Ill.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Kirkus Reviews

Case reopened! Gutsy--if at times farfetched--overview of Livingstone's JFK conspiracy theses, first met in High Treason (1989--not reviewed) and High Treason 2 (1992). Livingstone may step off on the wrong foot when drawing himself as emotionally troubled by attacks on him by other researchers, allegedly conspiracy-sponsored, out to get him and to lead others into searches for red herrings--but he unveils plenty of new evidence on the Kennedy killing here. No one should miss his summary of the hard evidence for a conspiracy--which, if accepted, leaves the lone-gunman theory far behind. Livingstone has managed to interview Diana Bowran (uninterviewed in 27 years), a British nurse and the first medical worker at Parkland Hospital to touch JFK's body. Bowran got into the back seat with the President and Jackie; found that JFK had no pulse; stayed with the body the entire time it was in the Trauma Room (aside from three minutes spent getting a transfusion packet); washed the corpse; closed its eyes; packed JFK's nearly empty skull with cotton squares; saw the extra back wound; and wrapped the body and watched its removal in a bronze casket. Livingstone points out that Kennedy's brain could not possibly have weighed 1500 grams (the weight of an average brain), as the autopsy doctors said, because a third or more of it was missing. He asks why the steel-jacketed ``magic bullet'' remains fresh-looking while the head-wound bullet exploded into fine bits, and answers: two guns. Actually, Livingstone posits four. His heavies are Texan oil billionaires H.L. Hunt and Clint Murchison, Jr., with LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, and John J. McCloy all meeting at Murchison's house on the eve of the murder and focusing on raising the national debt and lining their pockets by beefing up the war machine JFK was out to reduce. Livingstone's list of conspirators may sound unlikely, but his examination of the forensic evidence is compelling--and makes this even more readable and exciting than his last. (Sixteen pages of photographs) (First printing of 50,000) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 752 pages
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub; 1st Carol & Graf Ed edition (November 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786701544
• ISBN-13: 978-0786701544
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,337,791 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars WELL RESEARCHED BUT LOTS OF RANTING, October 10, 2003

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Don (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case (Hardcover)

First off, Richard Mark's review is baseless, the man endorses Gerald's Posners CASE CLOSED, which tells where he's coming from. Anyone who buys the single bullet theory is living in fantasy land. Ask anyone who hunts and they'll tell you it's impossible. About this book, it's packed with information about the assassination but the author writes with the assumption that the reader already has background knowledge of the assassination. Worth reading but not as a first book on the assassination.

3 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Livingstone, where did you leave the tracks?..., September 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case (Paperback)

It appears that HEL is shooting from the hip in his final book. The summation of facts in the first half of the book is compelling and somewhat satisfying, but from here comes the kind of stuff that the Gerald Posners of the world use to create the impression that researchers are paranoid and inaccurate. How can someone with a clear concsience say that all the people who shot photos and film in the Plaza were placed there by the conspirators? That researchers like Weisberg are on a disinformation campaign? There's no disagreement that the Groden questions raise doubts as to his credibility; the others sound a lot like elevator excuses. I read this book at the library, and a friend of mine moved recently and left a copy of this book for anyone to take with them.

No one took it.

After a thorough examination, I can see why.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Ranting & Raving about the Critics, September 11, 2004

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David Heiss (Battle Creek, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case (Hardcover)

While Mr. Livingstone probably has a lot to be angry about, his continual complaining and berating other "assasination researchers" accomplishes nothing more than listening to Hannity & Limbaugh complain and berate "liberals" (although at least some of Livingstone's complaints are grounded in real life). His earlier works provide a far superior summary of almost every theory out there.