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Online Mitch Todd

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Re: What's the worst JFK assassination related book you ever came across?
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2024, 03:21:52 AM »
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At any rate, what's the worst book you came across dealing with the JFK conspiracy? I nominate American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Mother by Deanne Stillman.
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The worst book I've personally encountered on the assassination is Paul Chambers' Head Shot. To begin with, the title is kinda tasteless. But what really gets me is, it's mostly filler...and most of that filler has little or nothing to do with JFK or his assassination. When Chambers, who has a PhD in Physics, gets around to discussing the physics of the assassination, his treatment of it is incredibly disappointing and juvenile.

Another dishonorable mention is Barry Ernst's The Girl on the Stairs, for similar reasons. Ernst had a long magazine article worth of new and interesting material, but he stretches it out to 400 pages with padding and rehashing well-worn arguments. It's also not well organized, and it lacks simple things like a table of contents or an index. At least he left in footnotes.
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Offline Bill Brown

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« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2024, 01:45:38 PM »
In terms of wildest, craziest theory, for me, it's Mortal Error.

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Re: What's the worst JFK assassination related book you ever came across?
« Reply #10 on: January 12, 2024, 03:21:56 PM »
The book's premise was that Mary was murdered by a CIA "wet work" operative who had attempted to frame Raymond Crump in her shooting because "Mary knew too much!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Pinchot_Meyer

Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, ...
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Peter Janney · 2016
Found inside
"... Georgia law professor, Scully identified himself as “a moderator at the Internet forum, JFK Debate, created by John Simkin.”2 Mr. Scully focused his attack on the conclusions I had presented about the prosecution witness William L ..."

I "dug my own grave," in the CT "community".

The author of the book's friend, Douglas Horne, "lashed out" in reaction to the unwelcome facts I presented.



Horne's friend, book author Peter Janney confirmed in the revised edition of his book. forced by my research results, that I had not concealed who I was by naming me in his attempt to discredit me because he could not counter the facts I discovered that had dismantled his fairy tale.

........ and the worm turns.  Happy New Year, Tom.  I wonder what happened to Mitchell?

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Re: What's the worst JFK assassination related book you ever came across?
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2024, 03:16:24 PM »
New member here.
Love the forum so I decided to register.
At any rate, what's the worst book you came across dealing with the JFK conspiracy? I nominate American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Mother by Deanne Stillman.
Interested in reading your answers.

How about some of the best books that deal with the JFK assassination conspiracy?

JFK Assassination Paradoxes (re-released last year as The JFK Assassination Decoded), by Dr. David Mantik.
Not In Your Lifetime, by Anthony Summers.
The Last Investigation, by Gaeton Fonzi.
Inside the Assassination Records Review Board, by Doug Horne.
Breach of Trust, by Dr. Gerald McKnight.

The worst pro-conspiracy books:

Plausible Denial, by Mark Lane.
Files on JFK: Interviews with Confessed Assassin James E. Files, by Wim Dankbaar.
JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, by L. Fletcher Prouty.

The worst pro-Warren Commission books:

Reclaiming History, by Vincent Bugliosi.
Case Closed, by Gerald Posner.
November 22, 1963: You Are the Jury, by David Belin.
JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth, by Burt Griffin.








Offline Jon Banks

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Re: What's the worst JFK assassination related book you ever came across?
« Reply #12 on: January 18, 2024, 03:28:22 AM »
Worst - The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron

Best - Accessories After The Fact by Sylvia Meagher

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Re: What's the worst JFK assassination related book you ever came across?
« Reply #13 on: January 25, 2024, 10:16:35 PM »
The Assassination Tapes by George O'Toole

The Author basically had one chapter's worth of substance and simply repeated it again and again and again. Very disappointing, just glad it was a used book for $5

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Re: What's the worst JFK assassination related book you ever came across?
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2024, 03:46:29 AM »
Any book, repeat ANY book by Jim DiEugenio.

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Re: What's the worst JFK assassination related book you ever came across?
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2024, 03:49:50 AM »
How about some of the best books that deal with the JFK assassination conspiracy?

JFK Assassination Paradoxes (re-released last year as The JFK Assassination Decoded), by Dr. David Mantik.
Not In Your Lifetime, by Anthony Summers.
The Last Investigation, by Gaeton Fonzi.
Inside the Assassination Records Review Board, by Doug Horne.
Breach of Trust, by Dr. Gerald McKnight.

The worst pro-conspiracy books:

Plausible Denial, by Mark Lane.
Files on JFK: Interviews with Confessed Assassin James E. Files, by Wim Dankbaar.
JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, by L. Fletcher Prouty.

The worst pro-Warren Commission books:

Reclaiming History, by Vincent Bugliosi.
Case Closed, by Gerald Posner.
November 22, 1963: You Are the Jury, by David Belin.
JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth, by Burt Griffin.

Horne? Laughable.