[cboyack]

I just finished JFK and the Unspeakable:Why He Died and Why It Matters by James Douglass after hearing Lew Rockwell recommend it, and I’m interested in reading further on the subject. A cursory search on amazon.com returned a lot of results that look sketchy at best.

I’m already tracking down Mary’s Mosaic, but are there any others that are credible, readable, and…well…not crazy? I’m sure they are, they’re just not widely seen (the same fate of most books questioning the establishment). Thanks!

[RedsPwnAll]

Any of these capture your fancy?:

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Politics-Death-Peter-Scott/dp/0520205197/ref=cm_lmf_tit_40

http://www.amazon.com/Regicide-Official-Assassination-John-Kennedy/dp/1591482976/ref=cm_lmf_tit_6

http://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Hidden-History-Kennedy-Years/dp/0743269195/ref=cm_lmf_tit_11

[woods]

I myself can’t recommend books on this subject, because I came to the conclusion long ago that in order to have a credible opinion on this matter, one would have to devote an enormous amount of time to reading a great many books. I haven’t been willing to make the investment of time.

[mr.james.armstrong]

Dear Dr. Thomas E. Woods Jr,

I direct these remarks to you as you were the lecturer for the JFK lesson.

Maybe it’s unfair but I use the JFK assassination as a litmus test for reliability. There’s the “lone-gunman-magic-bullet-nothing-to-see-here” crowd which includes such stalwarts of intellectual integrity as Brian Williams. There’s also the “CIA-MIC-bloody-coup-last-regime-change-in-50-years” school of thought which includes just about everybody I trust and respect.

Just about.

The awkward exception being, apparently, the illustrious Dr. Thomas E. Woods Jr.

And I say “illustrious” without irony.

I’d like this to be seen more as more of a grumbling than an accusation, but I did sign up for “real history” and departures from court history are the essence of the thing. Not for its own sake, of course, but where conformity to the facts requires it.

Now I understand that this is not an “allowable opinion” but I would think that a drive to “tell it like it was” would, at the very least, produce a statement – entirely factual – that there were a number of people who were of the opinion that the JFK assassination was what it appeared to be and have researched and published along those lines since it happened. Otherwise, I think there is a risk that the reader could be left with an impression that they were living under a regime very different than the one reality obliges them to cope with.

Yes, I realize that “The customer is not always right” is something of a motto around here but the historians, at least, should be – to the extent they can.

And since the implications here are enormous, I’m willing to dedicate a truly vast amount of your time to get to the bottom of it.

Respectfully,
JDA

In honor of the anniversary and to nudge this a bit closer to the thread topic
I recommend Russ Baker’s Family of Secrets.

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