My version: Paperback
Genre: Non Fiction, Kennedy Assassination,
Publisher: Thunder’s Mouth Press
First published: 1991
ISBN: 0-85965-149-5
Pages: 333
Bought
From the cover:
The Final Word on the Assassination
The assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963 continues to be shrouded in mystery and controversy. Now, for the first time in almost thirty years, explosive new evidence provided under oath during an historic defamation trial, reveals much about the CIA’s involvement in an event that devastated the American nation and irrevocably altered the course of history. In Plausible Denial, Mark Lane, author of Rush To Judgement, the provocative and best-selling critique of the Warren Commission’s official report on the assassination, reveals startling information about the CIA’s role in a plot to murder the president.
Meticulously documented and compellingly written, this book at last makes public the contents of this historic trial.”
Not another book about the Kennedy assassination.
No, it most certainly isn’t.
The frame-work for the book, is the second Liberty Lobby defamation trial, the first one brought by E.Howard Hunt (if you have read any previous books about the JFK assassination and/or remember Watergate, you’ll have come across his name many times before) after the publication by Liberty Lobby of an article that stated he was in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and not Washington DC, as he maintained. A large amount of money was awarded to him when his side won the first trial, and this second trial, the subject of the book, is Liberty Lobby’s attempt to prove the truth of their original articla. They recruited the lawyer Mark Lane, to represent them, and he saw a chance to not only prove the validity of the article, but also uncover facts about the CIA’s involvement on the assassination. And that’s why we have this book.
Lane goes into great depth and detail about the first trial and the process leading to the second trial. A lot of it is new to people like me, not really all that ‘up’ on Americal court processes, depositions and all, but maybe familiar with the bare bones outline as seen on numerous TV programmes and films.
The book is written in a way that has you on the edge of your mental seat all the way through. When you’ve read as many books about ‘this sort of thing’ as I have, many of the names you’ll have heard/seen crop up before. The basic facts, and cover-up, is also familiar. So it’s the way these are presented and the extra small (and not so small), telling, details that are teased out from these deductions, that will make a (yet another) book on the Kennedy assassination stand out. The book isn’t quite John Grisham, but getting there. It’s certainly hard to look away from and I certainly intend to read it again in the not too distant future.
Also interesting, because of a welter of facts being put in their place, is the series of appendix at the end (!). Lane writes the first, as thought he has been asked to represent Oswald, as if he had come tor trial and not beeb killed by a CIA operative hack Jack Ruby. Lane writes it as though he is doing it at the time, that is to say refuting the evidence that was presented ‘confirming’ Oswald as the lone assassin. There are many bombshells to be found there.
The main points are: Oswald didn’t fire a shot that day. He was, as he stated at the time, “a patsy.” All the doctors who examined Kennedy at the hospital at the time, said the wound in his throat, just above the necktie, was an entry wound. Oswald wasn’t in Mexico months before the assassination. Someone was setting him up long before the assassination. It was the C.I.A. It is impossible to fire the rifle he is supposed to have bought and used, in the time he is supposed to have done. The rifle shown to reporters just after it was found, was a different rifle to the one later claimed to be the one he is supposed to have used. Police rushed into the Schoolbook Depository immediately after the shots were fired, looking for Oswald. How so? He was found, sipping a soda on the second floor. The building was cordoned off, people were prevented from entering and leaving. However, Oswald left, made his way through the crowds, caught a bus, had a discussion with a passenger and the driver, then got off, walked a while and then got a taxi to his lodgings. The taxi driver’s name changed between first reports and later reports. The time of pick up according to the taxi details, was 12.30. The shots that killed Kennedy, were timed at 12.31. In the autumn 1961, following the Bay of Pigs incident, C.I.A. director Allen Dulles was forced to resign. On November 29, 1963, President Johnson appointed Dulles as one of seven commissioners of the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. The C.I.A., steered the commission towards a conclusion that Oswald had worked alone and for the Russians. The commission, decided to keep that angle quiet, for fear of stirring up a possible nuclear conflict.
If you believe the Warren Commission’s report, you’re an idiot. If you don’t, you’ll love this book.
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