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 | | Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi ISBN-10: 9780393045253 ISBN-10: 0-393-04525-0 ISBN-13: 9780393045253 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-04525-3 Hardcover 2007-05-15 W. W. Norton Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description For over forty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history. This extraordinary and historic book required twenty years to research and write. The oft-challenged findings of the Warren Commission—Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot and killed President John F. Kennedy—are here confirmed beyond all doubt. But Reclaiming History does much more than that. In addition to providing a powerful and unprecedented narrative of events and a biography of the assassin, it confronts and destroys every one of the conspiracy theories that have grown up since the assassination, exposing their selective use of evidence, flawed logic, and outright deceptions. So thoroughly documented, so compellingly lucid in its conclusions, Reclaiming History is, in a sense, the investigation that completes the work of the Warren Commission. In it, Vincent Bugliosi, the nation's foremost prosecutor, takes on the most important murder in American history. At 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead, the victim of a sniper attack during his motorcade through Dallas. That may be the only fact generally agreed upon in the vast literature spawned by the assassination. National polls reveal that an overwhelming majority of Americans (75%) believe that there was a high-level conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Many even believe that Oswald was entirely innocent. In this continuously absorbing, powerful, ground-breaking book, Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies about an event that changed the course of history. The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who forged an iron-clad case of circumstantial guilt around O. J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage, Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of writing the definitive book on the Kennedy assassination. This is an achievement that has for years seemed beyond reach. No one imagined that such a book would ever be written: a single volume that once and for all resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible. There have been hundreds of books about the assassination, but there has never been a book that covers the entire case, including addressing each and every conspiracy theory and the facts, or alleged facts, on which they are based. In this monumental work, the author has raised scholarship on the assassination to a new and final level, one that far surpasses all other books on the subject. It adds resonance, depth, and closure to the admirable work of the Warren Commission. Reclaiming History is a narrative compendium of fact, forensic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses, and common sense. Every detail and nuance is accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi's irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last it all makes sense. | ||
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The Truth is out there but not in Bugliosi's book For a proper assessment of Bugliosi's disinformationist book read Jim Di Eugenio's review on CTKA Probe Website ! | ||
More of the same old LIES This is simply more of the same LIES the gov has been feeding the American public since the day JFK was killed.This guy is a moron and doesnt know anything.He even profited from the Charles Manson case. Go research "Operation Mockingbird" and see for yourself.Anyone with a brain can see JFK being shot from the FRONT in the zapruder film. His head goes BACK away from the grassy knoll. | ||
Hey, somebody please tell Vince .... The good `ol Texas Oil Boys (increasingly invested in defense industries) want to control, possibly by eliminating, JFK so as to expand & preserve the nation's War Economy, about which JFK seems to have had second thoughts, with an eye on de-emphasis. So they hire the C.I.A. to deal with the issue; especially in the case of the need to off Kennedy, whom else would YOU hire to kill the U.S. president on American soil? The C.I.A. (as in "Corporate Interests of America") tries first to muscle their way past Kennedy in a showdown over Vietnam in the months just prior to 11/22/63, a "last chance" of sorts for the President. Waiting in the wings is Oil Lackey LBJ, whose political career is on the line due to scandal. Then, the decision to kill JFK becomes necessary & final and the C.I.A. does the dirty deed, providing a covert operation complete with designated patsy at no extra charge and backed by a fine "cover thy butt" propaganda & hit squad apparatus. Madeline Brown has publicly stated that LBJ emphatically informed her that the assassination was the work of "the Texas oil boys and the C.I.A," a connection well represented and aptly symbolized in the form of Texan and C.I.A. bigwig David Atlee Phillips. In the immediate aftermath of the murder, the hotshots from Texas exert their influence over the Dallas Police while LBJ and Hoover work towards snuffing out any potential independent inquiries. In addition, Johnson's new power as the nation's Chief Executive very quickly puts him into position to control the autopsy of JFK at Bethesda (as the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces) and soon after to force Earl Warren to head up a Johnson-controlled committee of investigation. The short-term goal of eliminating John Fitzgerald Kennedy has been stated, and begins paying off when the U.S. fakes an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin less than a year later that sparks the Vietnam War, and tons of profits for the likes of Brown & Root, Bell Helicopter and LTV. And that's the truth, whether Vince likes it or not! | ||
Very Complete Compilation - riveting Bugliosi combines 4 Days in November with reviews of evidence and the life of Oswald, and Conclusions of the Warren Commission to prove that the Kennedy Assisination was the work of one man. As you read it, though, you wonder, at least about possible Soviet involvement since he was in contact with the Soviets in Mexico just weeks before the assassination. Could he have been an Manchurian Candidate? My only question. Like a trial Lawyer he starts off with his premise that he will prove that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and then he proceeds to attempt to peel back the evidence a little at a time. This books is really quite a read. Frankly, I have been caught up in reading the many different perspectives of the authors of the conspiracy books over the years and when he asks how many of them and how many of us and others who believe there may have been a cover up had ever read the Warren Commission Report. Apparently, none had or rarely have. I have one of the more famous of the books about the consiracy, frankly it is rather unreadable to me, a jumble of information that from the start leads nowhere. There are others that are very compelling, but if Bugliosi is correct, that the Warren Report, much maligned, has never been read, well, what can I say, I need the full picture, so, I will read on. This has been his lifes work after leaving the world of prosecution. One area that remains though is he mentions that no one has ever come out to say it was a conspiracy among the conspirators. However, if you believe the Alex Jones website that E. Howard Hunt had a 'deathbed confession' before he died and also that a pupported mistress of LBJ had information regarding the VP at the time. Interesting as these may be, neither of those two apparent revelations ever made a ripple in the conspiracy world. Bugliosi has a way to get to the heart of the matter. Not always agreeing with him, he definately writes to your heart as well. You would think that if he is willing to take on the current president he would be willing to think the 'Military Industrial Complex' would be a target of his. No matter what the real conclusion, this book will challenge all of us to think about the cold blooded murder of a president that many of us looked at for hope. I still think about, looking back, at how much our nation changed after this day in history. We became a much sadder folk, and went a little inward with despair, almost imploding in Vietnam. May the truth prevail some day. | ||
Weighty Tome; Wrong Conclusion Does Mass Equal Conclusive Fact? Former federal prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi seems to think so. Bugliosi prosecuted Charles Manson, in the easiest murder trial of the century. Here Bugliosi has a much more difficult time and it shows. Had Bugliosi read or researched what other trained, professional snipers determined about the JFK "hit", he might not have wasted his (or our) time with this literary anchor. Unlike many of VB's fellow attorneys, I read the WCR and also Case Closed. However, I also dissected and gained a great deal more factual insight from Garrison's "On The Trail of The Assassins: and one slim book called, "Kill Zone: A Sniper Looks At Dealey Plaza." Then, having picked up a battered 30.06 rifle with scope, I attempted to hit a stationary target with three quick rounds in less than 6 seconds. Then I penned my own critical essay called "Count The Bullets: Blow Away All Arguments" (Google). Former top US Marine sniper, detective and author, Craig Roberts deduced: "The reason I knew that Oswald could not have done it, was because I could not have done it." Credited with numerous kills while serving in Vietnam , Roberts turned an objective eye on the shot heard `round the world. After he visited Dealey Plaza, after viewing the so-called sniper's lair, on the sixth floor of the book depository, and after staring at the large oak tree overspreading much of Elm Street, Roberts said, "I walked away from the window in disgust. I had seen all I needed to know that Oswald could not have been the lone shooter." But Roberts, a retired police investigator, wanted to know what did happen. Not content to dismiss the improbable feat, he delved into the crime from every angle. "First, I analyzed the scene as a sniper...I looked at the engagement angles. It was entirely wrong...Here, from what I could see, three problems arose that would influence my shots. First, the target was moving away at a drastic angle to the right from the window, meaning that I would have to position my body to compete with the wall and a set of vertical water pipes . . . This would be extremely difficult for a right-handed shooter. Second, I would have to be ready to fire exactly when the target emerged past some tree branches that obscured the kill zone. Finally, I would have to deal with two factors at the same time; the curve of the street, and the high-to-low angle formula--a law of physics Oswald would not have known." From my research in "Count The Bullets: Blow Away All Arguments," I decided to examine the OBJECTS STRUCK rather than focus on the sound of gunfire witnesses claimed to have heard. Bugliosi, a competent prosecutor rather than a damn good detective failed, as did the Warren Commission, to perform this simple task. And simply by counting the objects, we realize Oswald would have needed an automatic rifle with a ten shot magazine to kill Kennedy. Case Closed. | ||