This exciting new book puts Lee Harvey Oswald on trial, literally. It begins by asking what would have happened if Oswald had not been shot by Jack Ruby. The book assumes that a trial would have taken place and goes on to give a "re-enactment" of that trial, complete with testimony from almost 200 witnesses. Illustrated.
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In a brilliantly conceived but workmanlike courtroom drama built around the testimonies of more than 175 actual witnesses to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, having survived Jack Ruby's attempt to assassinate him, goes on trial in late 1964 for the murder of the president and is acquitted. Brown, a historian and former special agent of the Justice Department, makes a strong case that Oswald was the patsy for a professional conspiracy. Oswald's fictive defense attorney, youthful Edward Barnes, the Minnesota kid, riddles holes in the flimsy case mounted by highstrung, 50ish Texas prosecuting attorney Raymond Matthews, who sees the trial as his ticket to fame. In Brown's persuasive argument, there is overwhelming evidence that Oswald did not pull the trigger on any rifle aimed over Dealey Plaza, and that the Dallas police, federal officials and pathologists suppressed or destroyed key evidence. Regrettably, Brown does not explore the conspiracy angle beyond suggesting that the CIA, the Mafia, oil companies and the military all had strong motives to eliminate Kennedy, and the narrative, which may engage history and legal buffs, proceeds at the tedious pace of most actual trials. An epilogue skewers the Warren Commission's lone-assassin scenario and its apologists.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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My review fo The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald,
By Brian Rodriguez (Old Tappan , New Jersey United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald (Hardcover)
This book was compellig. I once had Dr. Brown as a teacher in a American Histoy Class I attended and I was stunned on his great knowledge on the Kenedy Murders. It shows in this book in what I like to call, a "what if" situation.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Oswald could NOT have been convicted based on the evidence,
This review is from: The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald (Paperback)
Assumptions are made and some slight liberties are taken. However, Walt Brown examines the evidence and allows the reader to see how it was not only impossible to have convited Oswald, but also how it would have been impossible for virtually anyone to have committed the crime with that weapon. READ IT.
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Not just another JFK conspiracy book.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald (Paperback)
Unlike the other JFK conspiracy books, The People v. Lee
Harvey Oswald keeps the readers interest by not stating,
then repeating, then in some instances repeating again,
facts and opinions about the murder of the President. Mr.
Brown has spun a fictional tale that is both interesting,
entertaining and suspenseful while at the same time telling
the conspiracy story that other authors get bogged down
telling. The too-good-to-be-true public defender is the
only downfall in an otherwise superb story. I've read many
other conspiracy books but this is the only one hard to put
down.
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Tuesday, January 5, 1965. An inch and a half of snow had fallen during the night on Lubbock, Texas, but had drawn far less attention than the trial that was about to begin at the County Seat of Lubbock County, 320 miles from Dallas, Texas, where the crime had happened. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fifteen hundred grams, expert witness status, assassination rifle, pristine bullet, jury rail, further questions for the witness, wound depicted, please tell the court, triple underpass, presidential car, sixth floor window, paraffin test, defense table, motorcade route, assassination weapon, prosecution table, elicited testimony, back wound, presidential limousine, defense calls, trigger housing, motorcycle officer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Book Depository, Secret Service, Judge Davis, Lee Oswald, United States, Carolyn Jeffries, Elm Street, Dealey Plaza, Lee Harvey Oswald, Bob Dean, President Kennedy, Lieutenant Day, White House, Houston Street, Miss Jeffries, Agent Lawson, Captain Fritz, Commander Humes, Earl Vincent, Eaton Graves, Love Field, Ray Matthews, Chief Curry, New Orleans, Selective Service New!
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Tuesday, January 5, 1965. An inch and a half of snow had fallen during the night on Lubbock, Texas, but had drawn far less attention than the trial that was about to begin at the County Seat of Lubbock County, 320 miles from Dallas, Texas, where the crime had happened. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fifteen hundred grams, expert witness status, assassination rifle, pristine bullet, jury rail, further questions for the witness, wound depicted, please tell the court, triple underpass, presidential car, sixth floor window, paraffin test, defense table, motorcade route, assassination weapon, prosecution table, elicited testimony, back wound, presidential limousine, defense calls, trigger housing, motorcycle officer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Book Depository, Secret Service, Judge Davis, Lee Oswald, United States, Carolyn Jeffries, Elm Street, Dealey Plaza, Lee Harvey Oswald, Bob Dean, President Kennedy, Lieutenant Day, White House, Houston Street, Miss Jeffries, Agent Lawson, Captain Fritz, Commander Humes, Earl Vincent, Eaton Graves, Love Field, Ray Matthews, Chief Curry, New Orleans, Selective Service New!
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This book cites 21
books:
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- November 22, 1963;: You are the jury by David W Belin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The death of a president, November 20-November 25, 1963 by William Raymond Manchester in Back Matter
- A Heritage of Stone by Jim, Garrison in Back Matter
- High Treason 2 (No. 2) by Harrison Edward Livingstone in Back Matter
- Coincidence or Conspiracy? by Bernard Fensterwald in Back Matter
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