4 comments about ZR Rifle : The Plot to Kill Kennedy and Castro.

1. The same group that was trying to kill Castro did succeed in assassinating President Kennedy. They are: anti-Castro Cubans, CIA, mafia, and the Watergate burglers.



2. "ZR Rifle" appeared at about the time when Fonzi's "Last Investigation," Scott's "Deep Politics," and Prouty's "JFK" showed up in the bookstores. Since Ms. Furiati has been characterized as "sympathetic" to Castro's revolution, I approached it with caution, only because I needed to know if the book itself could be discredited as another strand of misinformation in an entire web of misinformation spun over the course of forty years.

   What I find instead is another well-researched and objective attempt to explain more clearly the strands in the conspiracy web already suggested by the contemporary literature. As I began reading "ZR Rifle," I attempted to verify each fact presented in succession against what I know from other independent sources. I relaxed those efforts after fifty or sixty pages because the book is well-footnoted and the documentary support for its explanation is solid. The book, which can be read in one sitting, adds more detail and clarity to the speculations and background provided by the other authors of this last decade's research.

   "ZR Rifle"s strongest point is its reliance on documents and testimony provided by General Fabian Escalante, a veteran official of the Cuban State Security Service -- Castro's intelligence agency. Imagine, if you will, a country in a state of seige, a country made a pawn in the dangerous game of Cold-War nuclear weapons strategies, and a country that began to suspect itself as the intended scapegoat of a conspiracy hatched on American soil to murder an American President. Escalante occupied a position at the center of Cuba's own investigation to discover the Truth about the Guns of Dallas. Such a perspective provides ponderous advantages, because, unlike the problem of the fox guarding the chicken-coup, Cuban intelligence was able to place its own agents among the Cuban-exile community with a primary objective of turning up new facts. And these new facts substantiate what we already know about the complicity of David Atlee Phillips and other non-mob actors within the CIA itself.

   The book presents a new challenge for researchers of both the "serious" and armchair variety who want to unravel the complicated inconsistencies concerning the "Oswald in Mexico" story. Cuban documents -- specifically passport applications -- controvert the idea that Oswald was never in Mexico. The facts that document his presence there raise additional questions as to why the CIA propagated the photos of the beefy-looking Oswald imposter, and the meaning of last November's revelations about voice-print identification inconsistencies with the real Oswald. The one certainty that stands out, other than the Cuban evidence, is that all the paradoxes concerning Oswald in Mexico bear the trade-mark of David Atlee Phillips.

   My own model of the assassination has the shape of an hour-glass, or two pyramids each facing the opposite direction and intersecting at their apex. As with any methodical murder investigation, the "bottom-up" approach represented by Furiati and Fonzi fills in the details of the actual operations and execution of the conspiracy. Prouty's book, "JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Assassination of . . ." represents a perspective from the other pyramid. The implications about the power-elite responsible for the Guns of Dallas are clear, but more evidence is needed. Americans in the year 2000 can easily vote on their suspicions alone. Those citizens of a more cerebral inclination can simply cut to the chase and formulate their own alternative replacements to the US Constitution. But to actually implement such a change requires massive public support that can only derive from a ponderous body of facts.

   That is probably why Furiati was unable to publish her book in the United States. Again, there is a smoking gun in the hands of unidentified media influentials. One can only speculate that someone -- someone -- still worries about the sort of name-dropping that occurs on page 15 of Furiati's book. The fact that the ARRB Final Report was published in the same month that Congress voted to impeach Clinton, and that chapter 6 of that report contains thought-provoking comments about the individual mentioned by Furiati -- is no mean or insignificant coincidence.




3. I recently had a holiday in Cuba and found this book available in English everywhere. I found it very convincing as to who was behind the conspiracy. If you plan a holiday in Cuba pick up a copy there.



4. one of the best books on the jfk assasination, ive read well over a dozen on the subject & this one was up near the top. Probably not the best written, the author makes a couple of minor mistakes including referring to the 1957 appalachin meeting of mafia bosses as the meeting in the appalachian mountains! however, does include some very important info about the people responsible for the jfk assasination- those same cia agents, cuban exiles & mafia bosses who were active in the plots to get rid of castro. read this along with craig roberts' Kill Zone & u will solve the mystery surrounding the jfk assasination. This book gets to the point of the actual people there in dallas that fateful day & craig roberts' Kill Zone shows the conspirators who actually ordered the assasination. Read them both if u want to know the truth about who killed kennedy.

No comments about Oswald.

2 comments about Dr. Samuel A. Mudd and the Lincoln Assassination.

1. This is pure propaganda written by the husband of S. A. Mud's grandaughter. Mudd, a slave owning, beating,and shooting Confederate mail agent is portrayed as an honost Union man. A man who had met J. W. Booth 3 times before and plotted with him is said to be an innocent bystander. This is pure lies.



2. Yes, Mudd may have been a slave owner, but that night of the assassination, he was purley doing his job! I am a Mudd...I believe he was completely innocent. Maybe not of slave owning, but of the helping of teh assassination.

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1 comments about The Truth About the Assassination.

1. From book's back cover:
   
   "A few controversial questions answered in this book
   
   * Are the Warren Report critics? Or scavengers?
   * Did the Warren Commission suppress evidence of a conspiracy?
   * Was LBJ inconsiderate in his takeover of the Presidency?
   * Was Lee Harvey Oswald a paid assassin?
   * How many bullets hit President Kennedy?
   * Was there a second gunman on the grassy knoll?
   * Was Oswald framed by Dallas police and the FBI?
   * Was Jack Ruby hired to kill Oswald?
   * Did one bullet hit both JFK and Gov. Connally?
   * Was the Zapruder film doctored?
   * Was the JFK autopsy report altered?
   * Did Oswald know Ruby? Or Officer J. D. Tippit?
   * What caused 18 deaths in the wake of the first murder?"

No comments about Cloaked In Assassination.

5 comments about For King & Country.

1. It was my first read from Robert Asprin & Linda Evans.
   
   You have the plot from the other reviewers, so I will give you my impressions.
   
   This novel had meat to it. Too often I have read romance novels with nothing to them. This was a refreshing change!
   
   The main character had ethics, feelings, conscience and a feeling of responsibility for the future and the past. He made a great leader.
   
   Yes, the way he time-travelled is impossible, but doesn't time travel have to be? I have read of people going back in time with just a knock on the head!
   
   If there was a novel by these authors that was similar, in a close time period, or a sequel, I would snatch it up. Alas, I have found nothing that compares.
   
   I am reading Bernard Cornwall now, and although his battle scenes & politics are close to what we know as accurate, it still can't touch this juicy novel, which is anything but dry!
   
   For King And Country made me rethink the whole Arthurian legend. After all, we really don't know what is true and what is not. The author gives us a fresh look. There are no fairytales in this book.
   
   *****



2. This is a time travel story which kicks off in a near future Northern Ireland where the troubles have re-started and got much worse. IRA and Orange terrorists are killing people from one another's communities and both of them turning on the British authorities.
   
   While recuperating after being blown up by a "loyalist" bomb, S.A.S. Captain Trevor Stirling is asked to investigate some unusual goings on at a secret research establishment, which is apparently attracting interest from the IRA. The establishment is studying a form of time travel: it is impossible to move material objects back but human minds can be sent back in time and join a "host" human of the same sex and roughly the same age.
   
   Stirling has scarcely arrived when a member of staff at the research institute is murdered and two others have sent their minds back to the time of King Arthur. One of them, Brenna McEgan, turns out to have links to the IRA, the other, Cedric Bannon to the Orange paramilitaries. The Orangeman has left a note suggesting that the republican has gone back to try to change history and destroy everyone alive today.
   
   Trevor Stirling goes back himself to try to prevent a change to the timeline: but what he does not know is whether it is really the IRA agent trying to change history or the Orangeman.
   
   The time travel aspects of this book are rather silly and do not deal with the issue as well as the authors have managed in some of their other work. The best part of the book is the work the authors have done to recreate the world of the British Isles in about 500 AD, the time of Arthur, war Duke of the Britons. Part of the story is set in the ancient Kingdom of Rheged (Cumbria) and brings it brilliantly to life. If you happen to be in this part of the world and want to see more about it, there is a wonderful "Rheged discovery centre" on the A66 near Penrith.
   
   I'm tempted to be critical of the cover, which shows a warrior in 5th century combat kit with a revolver in his waistband, which is specifically not how time travel works in the story: but then, how are you supposed to convey in a picture that someone has the mind of a person from 15 centuries in the future sharing his head ?
   
   Overall this is entertaining and enjoyable if you don't take it too seriously. If you enjoy it, you may want to read some of the other stories of time travel by Robert Asprin and Linda Evans, particularly the "Time Scout" series which they wrote together, and "Far Edge of Darkness" by Linda Evans.
   
   Another time travel story which you might appreciate if you enjoy this, also with two people going back in time, one trying to change history and one to preserve it, is Harry Harrison's "Rebel in Time."



3. Running a close second to Time Scount and The House that Jack Built I enjoyed this new time travel adventure and hoped it would become a series.
   
   Unlike the Time Scout series, there is only one time jump in this novel. With elements of suspense and intrigue, we join SAS Captain Trevor Stirling as he travels into the past to King Arthurs time to trap a suspected IRA agent.
   
   As with the Time Scout series it is a fun, fast read with imaginative writing and enjoyable characters.



4. This book attempts to answer that question, using the method of Time Travel?
   
   Science Fiction is really the art of applying unknown, unlikely, or future science to human stories. In order for a book to be good, it has to draw you in. I like stories that deal with the interaction of humans with one another, and this started out as a story of troubles in the United Kingdom, between the IRA and the Orangemen. Into this conflict the science, in this case a time transfer device (not a true time machine) which is capable of moving one's consciousness to a host in the selected time period is brought.
   
   There are three primary protagonists that utilize this technology to move to the time of Arthurian legend in the British Isles. The technology chooses a host that is most compatible with the personality of the person traveling. After that, science is rarely dwelt upon.
   
   As it is of Arthurian legend, one of the people is hosted by Ancelotis (Lancelot), and one by Morganna (Morgan la Fey), and the final one is hosted by a minstrel. The three protagonists are Captain Trevor Stirling of the SAS, a member of the Cumann na mBann (an organization I had not previously heard of), and a radical Orangeman. Is Captain Stirling going to be able to stop actions that could change the future? Well that's the basis, but that is not the interesting part of the book.
   
   What is interesting is the authors' take on the land and the primary characters of Arthurian legend. By taking the perspective of a standard 20th century person, and throwing them into an unknown world, they are able to point out some things that might have happened that we don't know about. This is very good speculative fiction, and in the authors' writings, perhaps the time of Arthur was indeed much more advanced than historians believe. Maybe the dark ages concealed something that we only know of in legends.
   
   This was an enjoyable read that allows one's imagination to soar with reasonable leeway. I quite enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the legends of Britain's Arthur.



5. I bought this because I have thoroughly enjoyed Mr. Asprin's "Myth" and "Phule" series'. While this is a more serious book, I still enjoyed his style of writing. I was definitely captivated by the story line. Intrigued, even. A good read for Asprin fans, if you are willing to be more serious.

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2 comments about The Man on the Grassy Knoll.

1. I have read quite a lot of books about the Kennedy assassination but this one is the best by far. It is well written and reads like a thriller.

   At the end of the book a groundsheet of the Rogers' house is shown. This helps to understand the description of the crime and the search through the house by the two police officers. What I miss is a groundsheet of the parsonage. From the description it is not possible for me to imagine how it looked like. It plays an important role so I think it would better the book if it was printed too. A thing that makes me curious is: what did the authors put on their trail? Where they one of those informed by Marietta Gerhart?




2. I have read a lot of books on the JFK assissination.

   This book caught my eye for that reason. However, once I began reading it, this book kept my attention. It read like a novel. I liked that, it was a switch from the usual fact presented like facts JFK conspiracy books. I liked that about this book. It certainly had me convinced that this guy had something to do with the JFK murder. It made me wonder why we didn't do more then in regards to this guy.

   The book was gory when talking about the dismemberment of his mother and father. I really didn't like that. I'm not sure that it added much to the book except some length. However, it did make me realize that this was the type of man who would do what he thought needed to be done and might certainly shoot at a president.

   This book is very interesting and those interested in reading about the JFK assassination would do well to consider reading this book. It is an easy one to skip over with the massive amounts of books available to read. However, the novel like feel of this does not detract from the research completed and conclusions drawn in this book.