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Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why

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The Warren Commission concluded Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of President Kennedy--a view that 75 percent of Americans disagree with. McKnight now gives profound substance to that view in the most meticulous and devastating dissection of the Commission's work to date. Photos.

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"This meticulous but tendentious dissection of the official JFK assassination probe commits the very sins it condemns. Historian McKnight (The Last Crusade: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI and the Poor People's Campaign) argues that the commission embraced the politically safe lone-gunman theory from the outset and therefore slanted its investigation, ignored crucial leads and discounted contradictory evidence and witnesses. Examining mountains of documents, McKnight presents a well-researched, if dense and disjointed, indictment of a biased and sloppy commission and an obstructionist FBI. He interprets the errors and irregularities as the cover-up of a conspiracy, as he revisits such conspiracist touchstones as the Zapruder film, the position of Kennedy's neck wound, the single-bullet theory and the 'false Oswald' reports. Insisting on Oswald's innocence, he floats the far-fetched conjecture that 'CIA hardliners' killed Kennedy and implicated Fidel Castro in the murder as a pretext for war against Cuba. By restricting his discussion largely to Warren Commission findings, McKnight sidesteps later research supporting the Oswald-acted-alone scenario, particularly Gerald Posner's 1993 study Case Closed, which answered most of his objections and remains the best account of the assassination. 21 b&w photos. Agent, Leona Schechter." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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To quote the above review - .."McKnight sidesteps later research supporting the Oswald-acted-alone scenario, particularly Gerald Posner's 1993 study Case Closed, which answered most of his objections and remains the best account of the assassination." Really? A book that was completely debunked by Harold Weisberg as a complete sham remains the best account of the assasination? Me thinks this website needs proper reviewers....at least one that know what their talking about. Until such a time, I'll be giving it all the time it deserves i.e. bugger all.
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McKnight, Gerald
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United States - 20th Century/60s
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United states
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Conspiracy & Scandal Investigations
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Kennedy, John F
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Government - U.S. Government
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Assassination
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Kennedy, John F - Assassination
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US History - 20th Century
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2005
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"Publishers Weekly Review" by , "This meticulous but tendentious dissection of the official JFK assassination probe commits the very sins it condemns. Historian McKnight (The Last Crusade: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI and the Poor People's Campaign) argues that the commission embraced the politically safe lone-gunman theory from the outset and therefore slanted its investigation, ignored crucial leads and discounted contradictory evidence and witnesses. Examining mountains of documents, McKnight presents a well-researched, if dense and disjointed, indictment of a biased and sloppy commission and an obstructionist FBI. He interprets the errors and irregularities as the cover-up of a conspiracy, as he revisits such conspiracist touchstones as the Zapruder film, the position of Kennedy's neck wound, the single-bullet theory and the 'false Oswald' reports. Insisting on Oswald's innocence, he floats the far-fetched conjecture that 'CIA hardliners' killed Kennedy and implicated Fidel Castro in the murder as a pretext for war against Cuba. By restricting his discussion largely to Warren Commission findings, McKnight sidesteps later research supporting the Oswald-acted-alone scenario, particularly Gerald Posner's 1993 study Case Closed, which answered most of his objections and remains the best account of the assassination. 21 b&w photos. Agent, Leona Schechter." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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