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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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)
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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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- November 22, 1963: You Are the Jury by David 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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