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A review by strong_extraordinary_dreams
Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination by Richard Belzer, David Wayne
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.