Is Fred Litwin the new LN proponent leader?

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Offline Bill Chapman

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Re: Is Fred Litwin the new LN proponent leader?
« Reply #14 on: April 29, 2021, 03:30:05 PM »
There have been several low profile LN proponent leaders in the past. These include Mel Ayton ("The JFK Assassination - Dispelling the Myths and Challenging the Conspiracy Theorists") and Jim Moore ("Conspiracy Of One"). I say low profile because they never really appeared on TV much.

Then there were the more high profile LN proponent leaders.

These include Gerald Posner, Vincent Bugliosi, Dale Myers, and John McAdams. They all wrote books and appeared on several TV programs and documentaries. But they seemed to have gone quiet as of late. As a result it seems a new LN proponent leader has taken their place - Fred Litwin, who has been more willing to put himself out there as of late than any of the other LN proponents mentioned. Thus by default, this in a way makes him the current LN proponent leader.

Fred Litwin has written two books on the JFK assassination: "I Was A Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak" and "On The Trail of Delusion". The latter book is an anti-Jim Garrison book and so has gained particular ire from Jim DiEugenio who is pro-Jim Garrison. I haven't read either of these books (yet anyway).

How does Fred Litwin stack up against his predecessors Gerald Posner, Vincent Bugliosi, Dale Myers, and John McAdams? Does he make more or less convincing arguments than these in favor of the LN position?

'But they seemed to have gone quiet as of late'
LOL That's one way of putting it: Bugliosi died in 2015 and McAdams recently.
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Offline Ray Mitcham

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Re: Is Fred Litwin the new LN proponent leader?
« Reply #15 on: April 30, 2021, 03:47:18 PM »
'But they seemed to have gone quiet as of late'
LOL That's one way of putting it: Bugliosi died in 2015 and McAdams recently.

But Posner and Myers are still alive.

Online Gerry Down

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Re: Is Fred Litwin the new LN proponent leader?
« Reply #16 on: April 30, 2021, 04:05:41 PM »
But Posner and Myers are still alive.
And Max Holland too. And I think Jean Davison also.

Offline Bill Chapman

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Re: Is Fred Litwin the new LN proponent leader?
« Reply #17 on: April 30, 2021, 04:58:56 PM »
And Max Holland too. And I think Jean Davison also.

You missed my joke.. the 'gone quiet' thing..
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Re: Is Fred Litwin the new LN proponent leader?
« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2021, 01:17:43 AM »
You missed my joke.. the 'gone quiet' thing..

I got the joke. But i thought we had moved on to discussing who of the main LN proponents are still alive.

Offline Steve M. Galbraith

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Re: Is Fred Litwin the new LN proponent leader?
« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2021, 04:29:30 PM »
He doesn't; Litwin is all about Garrison bashing.

Otherwise just a run of the mill LN nut job WC fanboy.

How that would default to some kind of leadership role makes little sense to me.
Not true at all. In his first book he has one chapter (out of seven) devoted to Garrison and the rest of it to discussing other conspiracists and conspiracy theories and how his views on the assassination changed over time. Although he does mention Garrison in other chapters.

Furthermore, exposing Garrison's serial abuses of power, his incessant lies and falsehoods (although he probably believed many of them) is not "bashing." It's exposing Garrison for what he was: a ruthless, paranoid who ruined numerous people's lives.

This is from the table of contents of his book "I was a Teenage Conspiracy Freak."

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Re: Is Fred Litwin the new LN proponent leader?
« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2021, 06:08:42 PM »
In his third book he's all in....

https://www.onthetrailofdelusion.com/

Furthermore, exposing Garrison's serial abuses of power, his incessant lies and falsehoods (although he probably believed many of them) is not "bashing." It's exposing Garrison for what he was: a ruthless, paranoid who ruined numerous people's lives.

Compare that to the damages inflicted by the fake investigation conducted the Warren Commission.

Jim Garrison was worse. I created this thread https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,2910.0.html  about errors in the Warren Report and members on here have struggled to find errors in the report.