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More copies of this ISBN:Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Whyby Gerald Mcknight
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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. Review:"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.) What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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