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Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case

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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.

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.

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.

I found this at a used bookstore. Was happy not to have my money go to the author. His arguments, like all the conspiracy theorists, are based on innuendo or explainable "discrepancies" in the evidence, which is presented in a very selective manner. HEL ignores the truly compelling evidence that shows that three shots and three shots only were fired at JFK's car. He counts up to 6 shots. Where are the bullets? The shells? The shooters? Several witnesses saw a rifleman in the Book Depository window. No one reported seeing any other shooters, even though potential witnesses were everywhere. Plus - 88% of the 178 witnesses said they were certain they heard three shots. HEL doesn't bother to mention this