Wouldn't this be a great JFKA book?

[Lance Payette]

As I was demolishing the Hale Boggs "mysterious death" factoid (and about four others in the process), I had an epiphany of sorts. The idea occurred to me as I found myself laughing out loud at the foibles of Bernard Fensterwald and Richard E. Sprague. (Really, you need to read the Boggs thread if you haven't, because it's wilder than the Roxy Horror Picture Show. There are even pictures of naked women in it!)

Wouldn't this be a wonderful JFKA book?

1. Proceeding chronologically, because wild theories about the JFKA surfaced almost immediately, we would devote a chapter to each of the 25 or 50 (or whatever it is) distinct and diverse CT theories that have been floated. We would simply describe each in perhaps 2,000 words. We would make no attempt to refute them; we would simply describe them. The humor and absurdity, as readers worked their way through the book, would become self-evident.

2. Within each chapter, we would then have a short biography of two or three of the leading exponents of the theory. We would highlight their credentials or lack thereof and all the other oddball things they believed and promoted. Again, we would not judge. As readers progressed through the book, the humor and absurdity would become self-evident.

3. Likewise within each chapter, we would expose perhaps three of the goofy factoids associated with the theory, as I have done on the Boggs thread. No judgment, just let the facts speak for themselves and give readers a mere taste of what passes for research in this field.

In other words, it wouldn't be an anti-CT book per se. The sheer magnitude of the silliness that permeates this field would simply be allowed to speak for itself. Wouldn't that be a great book?

My other idea was one that Little Old Me could more realistically undertake. I bought McAdams' JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy and thought it was a dud that didn't deliver what the title promised. My idea would be a book that discussed (in laymen's terms) epistemology, logic and critical thinking and showed how the conspiracy-prone mindset violates virtually all the relevant principles, all in the context of the JFKA. I started down this path in 2019 with my "Beginner's Guide to the Conspiracy Game," https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25995-a-beginners-guide-to-the-conspiracy-game/, but haven't done much more than tweak that effort.

[Tim Nickerson]

As I was demolishing the Hale Boggs "mysterious death" factoid (and about four others in the process), I had an epiphany of sorts. The idea occurred to me as I found myself laughing out loud at the foibles of Bernard Fensterwald and Richard E. Sprague. (Really, you need to read the Boggs thread if you haven't, because it's wilder than the Roxy Horror Picture Show. There are even pictures of naked women in it!)

Wouldn't this be a wonderful JFKA book?

1. Proceeding chronologically, because wild theories about the JFKA surfaced almost immediately, we would devote a chapter to each of the 25 or 50 (or whatever it is) distinct and diverse CT theories that have been floated. We would simply describe each in perhaps 2,000 words. We would make no attempt to refute them; we would simply describe them. The humor and absurdity, as readers worked their way through the book, would become self-evident.

2. Within each chapter, we would then have a short biography of two or three of the leading exponents of the theory. We would highlight their credentials or lack thereof and all the other oddball things they believed and promoted. Again, we would not judge. As readers progressed through the book, the humor and absurdity would become self-evident.

3. Likewise within each chapter, we would expose perhaps three of the goofy factoids associated with the theory, as I have done on the Boggs thread. No judgment, just let the facts speak for themselves and give readers a mere taste of what passes for research in this field.

In other words, it wouldn't be an anti-CT book per se. The sheer magnitude of the silliness that permeates this field would simply be allowed to speak for itself. Wouldn't that be a great book?

My other idea was one that Little Old Me could more realistically undertake. I bought McAdams' JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy and thought it was a dud that didn't deliver what the title promised. My idea would be a book that discussed (in laymen's terms) epistemology, logic and critical thinking and showed how the conspiracy-prone mindset violates virtually all the relevant principles, all in the context of the JFKA. I started down this path in 2019 with my "Beginner's Guide to the Conspiracy Game," https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25995-a-beginners-guide-to-the-conspiracy-game/, but haven't done much more than tweak that effort.

You write the book and I'll buy it.

[Fred Litwin]

That's my next book - a history of jfk assassination conspiracy theories.


fred

[Charles Collins]

As I was demolishing the Hale Boggs "mysterious death" factoid (and about four others in the process), I had an epiphany of sorts. The idea occurred to me as I found myself laughing out loud at the foibles of Bernard Fensterwald and Richard E. Sprague. (Really, you need to read the Boggs thread if you haven't, because it's wilder than the Roxy Horror Picture Show. There are even pictures of naked women in it!)

Wouldn't this be a wonderful JFKA book?

1. Proceeding chronologically, because wild theories about the JFKA surfaced almost immediately, we would devote a chapter to each of the 25 or 50 (or whatever it is) distinct and diverse CT theories that have been floated. We would simply describe each in perhaps 2,000 words. We would make no attempt to refute them; we would simply describe them. The humor and absurdity, as readers worked their way through the book, would become self-evident.

2. Within each chapter, we would then have a short biography of two or three of the leading exponents of the theory. We would highlight their credentials or lack thereof and all the other oddball things they believed and promoted. Again, we would not judge. As readers progressed through the book, the humor and absurdity would become self-evident.

3. Likewise within each chapter, we would expose perhaps three of the goofy factoids associated with the theory, as I have done on the Boggs thread. No judgment, just let the facts speak for themselves and give readers a mere taste of what passes for research in this field.

In other words, it wouldn't be an anti-CT book per se. The sheer magnitude of the silliness that permeates this field would simply be allowed to speak for itself. Wouldn't that be a great book?

My other idea was one that Little Old Me could more realistically undertake. I bought McAdams' JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy and thought it was a dud that didn't deliver what the title promised. My idea would be a book that discussed (in laymen's terms) epistemology, logic and critical thinking and showed how the conspiracy-prone mindset violates virtually all the relevant principles, all in the context of the JFKA. I started down this path in 2019 with my "Beginner's Guide to the Conspiracy Game," https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/25995-a-beginners-guide-to-the-conspiracy-game/, but haven't done much more than tweak that effort.

Sadly most people are not familiar with very many details of the JFK assassination. Therefore, I have some doubts about the humor and absurdity being self-evident to most folks. However, if anyone could write something like that, and make it all work the way you suggest, for the masses, I think that Lance and/or Fred might stand a chance.

The other idea is also right up your alley Lance. I would be very interested to read what you might write. I also was disappointed with the McAdams book.

[Benjamin Cole]

I hope you take up the serious cudgels for the lurid "Mossad perped the JFKA" dog-whistlers.

Although they better deserve being ignored.

[Tom Graves]

I hope you take up the serious cudgels for the lurid "Mossad perped the JFKA" dog-whistlers.

Although they better deserve being ignored.

Are you the pro-Trump / anti-"Globalist" Benjamin Cole who often posts at the so-called JFK Assassination Debate - Education Forum?

If so, is Roger Stone one of your heroes?

After all, after meeting in early 2016 with recently-returned-from-Moscow Harley Schlanger of the pro-Russia Lyndon LaRouche organization, Stone sent former Watergate attorney Douglas Caddy an email, thanking him for having introduced Schlanger to Stone (at Schlanger's request), and said (in so many words), "We seem to have hit it off. We are fighting the Globalists, and I have a back channel to Trump."