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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
This is something quite new in assassination literature: a book by a husband-and-wife team who are basically TV documentary makers-and in fact aired some of their discoveries in segments on network TV-but who write with vigor, persuasiveness and (almost unique in assassination literature) some humor. If only their discoveries had been up to their presentation, this would have been a significant contribution. As it is, despite the catchpenny title (a TV legacy), the book does not offer any very startling disclosures. There are three advances the authors made by painstaking research, however: they found a man who had been jailed in a cell next to Oswald-and whose incarceration in Dallas that day the FBI had hidden for more than 30 years. The man claims that Oswald knew a jailed gunrunner, as well as Jack Ruby. They discovered that Oswald carried a Defense Department card after his release from the Marines that gave him all sorts of privileges only an active agent would normally receive. And they determined that the famous "tramps" arrested on Dealey Plaza that day really were tramps, and their arrest had indeed been recorded. Beyond that, the LaFontaines have much interesting information about the bootleg gun trade in Dallas in 1963, and about the anti-Castro underground, which they are convinced was closely involved in the assassination. This is an entertaining book, by smart people with open minds, but it doesn't take us a whole lot further.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From the Publisher
John Elrod is not the name that comes to mind when the Kennedy assassination is mentioned. To the general population, the names of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, and Jack Ruby, the accused assassin's killer, are much more familiar. But what if new evidence were presented, evidence that pointed to the possibility that facts surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy were suppressed for some unknown reason? And how could the testimony of John Elrod on August 11, 1964, in a Shelby County, Tennessee, sheriff's office somehow shed light on this continuing mystery?
This is something quite new in assassination literature: a book by a husband-and-wife team who are basically TV documentary makers-and in fact aired some of their discoveries in segments on network TV-but who write with vigor, persuasiveness and (almost unique in assassination literature) some humor. If only their discoveries had been up to their presentation, this would have been a significant contribution. As it is, despite the catchpenny title (a TV legacy), the book does not offer any very startling disclosures. There are three advances the authors made by painstaking research, however: they found a man who had been jailed in a cell next to Oswald-and whose incarceration in Dallas that day the FBI had hidden for more than 30 years. The man claims that Oswald knew a jailed gunrunner, as well as Jack Ruby. They discovered that Oswald carried a Defense Department card after his release from the Marines that gave him all sorts of privileges only an active agent would normally receive. And they determined that the famous "tramps" arrested on Dealey Plaza that day really were tramps, and their arrest had indeed been recorded. Beyond that, the LaFontaines have much interesting information about the bootleg gun trade in Dallas in 1963, and about the anti-Castro underground, which they are convinced was closely involved in the assassination. This is an entertaining book, by smart people with open minds, but it doesn't take us a whole lot further.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From the Publisher
John Elrod is not the name that comes to mind when the Kennedy assassination is mentioned. To the general population, the names of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, and Jack Ruby, the accused assassin's killer, are much more familiar. But what if new evidence were presented, evidence that pointed to the possibility that facts surrounding the death of John F. Kennedy were suppressed for some unknown reason? And how could the testimony of John Elrod on August 11, 1964, in a Shelby County, Tennessee, sheriff's office somehow shed light on this continuing mystery?
Ray and Mary La Fontaine find and report the evidence emerging from newly released files on the Kennedy assassination. There are probably several hundred books on the general topic of the Kennedy assassination still on the shelves, but this book differs from the others in several ways. First of all it is one of only a handful written by serious journalists. The La Fontaines have cowritten several investigative articles for respected mainstream newspapers such as the and The Washington Post.
Secondly, this book provides more new documented evidence than any book in twenty years, and does not rely on notoriously unreliable "witness" testimony unless such testimony was demonstrably made at the time of the assassination.
Thirdly, because this book has no "agenda" and was written by journalists, it does not gratuitously rehash tired theories, but takes the reader where he has never been before: to where the new evidence leads. Oswald Talked: The New Evidence in the JFK Assassination often reads like a mystery novel, yet what it delivers is what many novels (and films) neglect to present the truth.
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