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Title: Case Closed by Gerald L Posner ISBN: 0-517-16446-9 Publisher: Random House Value Pub Pub. Date: 14 November, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (233 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Clear and comprehensive study of all the facts
Comment: Around the time of the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assination, I became very interested in the subject. I watched a riviting Frontline program on PBS which gave both sides of the story- the conspiracy theory as well as the lone gunman theory. Gerald Posner was interviewed to advocate the lone gunman theory. He spoke with such calm and confidance that I decided to take his book out from the library.
The book was no disappointment. Posner carefully reviews all the relevant facts, most significantly Oswald's life history. He begins with his childhood troubles and then his infatuation with communism. I had no idea that Oswald moved to Russia and later on attempted to move to Cuba. Posner clearly demonstrates that Oswald was a true nut who would never be used by any other agency (cia,kgb,etc) to carry out an assisnation.
Posner also painstakinly reviews all the physics and biology behind the actually assisnation to clearly prove that Oswald alone shot the three bullets.
After reading Posner, I have no desire to read any of the consipiracy books. It is sad to say, but it seems that one nut changed the course of history. It hasn't been the first time (Hitler comes to mind first).
I got so excited while reading this book, that I have booked a trip to Dallas to see Dealy Plaza for myself.
Rating: 5
Summary: Case Closed Wins! Now Turn Off The Lights And Go To Bed!
Comment: Okay, I did what you conspiracy buffs suggested. I stayed up late and watched the History Channel's series on the JFK assassination. Then I read Posner's book, Cased Closed. The results are in - Case Closed wins! Here's why:
1) Posner's conclusive evidence for the one gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. Over 2200 well researched footnotes, his impressive 70 book bibliography, his summary of all the important government reports, makes the case truly closed.
2) Posner's character development of Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby, and Jim Garrison. Anyone who takes his wedding ring off before going to work, leaves his best dog in the car while doing business, or has a fixation for guys named Clay, are all up to no good.
3) Finally, Posner is right when he says that you conspiracy buffs are like religious fanatics. Multiple pilgrimages to Dealey Plaza? Paying $6,000 for Blessed Oswald's coroner's tag? Autograph sessions with Saints Jean Hill and Ed Hoffman? Sorry guys, your sermons of conspiracy aren't credible anymore.
Case Closed wins! Now turn off the lights and go to bed!
Rating: 1
Summary: Another Untenable Defense of the Warren Commission
Comment: The New York Times Book Review, The Boston Sunday Globe, and the Chicago Tribune have all praised Posner's "Case Closed" as "The most convincing explanation of the assassination" and "Case closed, indeed" With all the praise surrounding the book, the average reader might come to believe that Posner has indeed solved the case. But unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth. The most that can be said about Posner is that he has destroyed some untrue conspiracy arguments that have been around for too long. But on such issues as the single bullet, the medical evidence, Lee Oswald's role, etc., Posner stumbles and offers strained and doubtful theories.
First of all, Posner's book is extremely arrogant. He often uses the disrespectful term of "conspiracy buff" to designate anyone who disagrees with his opinions. He holds all other views points with great disdain.
Secondly, Case Closed contains many factual errors. Here are just a few of them:
*Pontchartrain is not a river but a lake
*James Tague stood twenty feet east of the triple underpass, not beneath it
*The testing he refers to was done by the Army, not the FBI
*The Warren Commission had no investigators
*Leftists are not the only critics of the Warren Report; there are evangical Christians who reject the single bullet theory and Earl Warren was a die-hard liberal
Unfortunately, the list goes on and on.
Also, all the evidence that Posner presents is taken out of context, corrupted, nonsourced, or is the opposite of what the sources actually say. As with the case of Linnie Mae Randle, who swore the package that Oswald carried was 28 inches long, too short for the package to have carried the rifle. Randle swore that Oswald held the end of the package in his hand and let it almost touch the ground. Posner converts this into "tucked under his armpit, and the other end did not quite touch the ground"
Posner also offers some very bizarre theories about the James Tague wounding. Posner asserts that the first shot hit a branch of a tree and its lead core instantly separated from the metal jacketing and traveled in a straight line from the TSBD to the curb over 400 feet away, somehow landing with enough force to send concrete fragments streaking toward Tague. How is this possible?
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Title: The Warren Commission Report : Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by President's Commission On The Assassinat, United States ISBN: 0312082576 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 15 February, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Why America Slept : The Failure to Prevent 9/11 by GERALD L. POSNER ISBN: 0375508791 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy by Jim Marrs ISBN: 0881846481 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers Pub. Date: 01 November, 1990 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Gerald Posner ISBN: 0156006510 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title:Image of an Assassination - A New Look at the Zapruder Film ASIN: 630507190X Publisher: Mpi Home Video Pub. Date: 04 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $24.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $22.48 |
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