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veryliterarykari's review against another edition
5.0
I'm quite impressed with Richard Belzer's concise, straightforward analysis of many of the suspicious deaths of witnesses to the JFK assassination. The book starts out with some astounding statistics about the amount of unnatural deaths among people related to the event. There are two dramatic spikes in deaths among this group of people... the time periods that cover the Warren Commission and the HSCA investigations.
strong_extraordinary_dreams's review
4.0
The good:
- a chronological list of (a few of) the mysterious murders, probable murders, likely murders, suicides and the occasional innocent death of those with knowledge of parts of the inside story of the deep state's (let's say) assasination of JFK.
- really fills in some background for those with already some knowledge of this crime. If you are one of the one-in-a-thousand who know who J. D. Tippets was, this book is for you.
- very disciplined, very fair.
- opens up some new (to me) avenues. While anyone worth talking to can already discuss the long term relationship between Jack Rubenstien and Lee Oswald, this book talks about them (most likely) working on the same medical research project. Yup.
The bad:
- repeating the same text, the same info, verbatium, over and over. Very weird. I think that the authors want to make each segment complete in itself, so info related to two or three items gets repeated - in full - two or three times.
- possibly could do with at least one other organising system beyond chronology. For example, the allocation of people and their deaths into CIA, Mafia, non-mafia underworld, and political is not done.
Would have been 5-stars, minus one for the very annoying repeats.
- a chronological list of (a few of) the mysterious murders, probable murders, likely murders, suicides and the occasional innocent death of those with knowledge of parts of the inside story of the deep state's (let's say) assasination of JFK.
- really fills in some background for those with already some knowledge of this crime. If you are one of the one-in-a-thousand who know who J. D. Tippets was, this book is for you.
- very disciplined, very fair.
- opens up some new (to me) avenues. While anyone worth talking to can already discuss the long term relationship between Jack Rubenstien and Lee Oswald, this book talks about them (most likely) working on the same medical research project. Yup.
The bad:
- repeating the same text, the same info, verbatium, over and over. Very weird. I think that the authors want to make each segment complete in itself, so info related to two or three items gets repeated - in full - two or three times.
- possibly could do with at least one other organising system beyond chronology. For example, the allocation of people and their deaths into CIA, Mafia, non-mafia underworld, and political is not done.
Would have been 5-stars, minus one for the very annoying repeats.
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