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5 comments about Presumed Guilty.

1. book is written in black and whites, no grey areas. It deals with only a few indisputable facts, for example: time line and placement. The book draws no conclusions nor does it make any suppositions. The book is very short and to the point, a must read for any one who has any intrest in the death of J.F.K.



2. Roffman's book would be an excellent text for a class in faulty logic. He contrives outlandish reasons for NOT believing compelling evidence (e.g., Oswald's fingerprints on the rifle and sniper's nest show that he was the shooter) and then contrives more outlandish reasons to suggest that a timeline of events shows Oswald could not have been at the 6th floor window. In Roffman's world, some conspirator would have had to steal Oswald's rifle from his wife's landlady's garage, fire three bullets, plant the rifle with Oswald's fingerprints on the 6th floor of the Book Depository, plant the three shells in the "sniper's nest," make sure Oswald's palm print was on the cardboard boxes of the nest, plant one of the bullets on Gov. Connally's stretcher, plant another bullet (what was left of it) in the floor of JFK's limousine. And, of course, someone other than Oswald would have had to shoot JFK and Connally with another rifle and then disappear. I found this book at the library. Can't believe people pay money for this stuff.



3. I liked the spectrographic analysis and the comments Roffman made. In reality only the bullets found in Conally, Kennedy, the stretcher bullet, fragments found in the limo can tell us what happened that day. If these bullets are identical to the Oswald's gun then we can conclude that there was a lone gunman. But until that is proved the lone gunman theory is specualtion.



4. This is one of the best books Ive read on the JFK Assassination!it shows that the Warren Cmmission concluded before it did any investigation or took any testimony tha LHO was guilty and that he was the Assassin.it is clear that Oswald's legal rights were violated in every way imaginable way.The district Attorney the cheif of police and the captain of homocide all said that OSWALD was the man who killed the President on what evidence??a rifle with no identifiable fingerprints only a smudge palmprint 3 days after he was murdered was found on the stock!!there were no fingerprints on the empty shells found at the window.are we suppose to beleive that after shooting the president with three consecutive shots in 5.6 seconds he runs across the other side of the depository cleans the rifle of any prints picks his way around the stacks book hiding the rifle carefully amomg the stacks of books runs 4 flight of stairs to the 2nd floorlunchroom works the coke machine and is confronted by by two witnessis who said he appeared normal calm and not agitated!!it did not happen!!!



5. I don't need much to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was probably not the killer. The author does a lot of necessary work in exlaining the situation to us. Of course, he leaves vital information out because the book was published only 13 years after the assassination and was probably controversial even in 1976. It was long before Oliver Stone's masterpiece epic and one of the best films of all time, JFK, about Jim Garrison's quest for the truth. The author does explain the details about the assassinatino and the problems with the Warren commission which concluded only that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the president. The author here goes further in disputing the claim that he was guilty. He was presumed guilty because that was what they wanted us to believe. It was simply since Oswald was himself killed in public by Jack Ruby. I don't the author here details Ruby's involvement or motive in the killing of Oswald. Everything happened fast from Kennedy's assassination and death until Oswald was also gunned down in broad daylight in front of the press and law enforcement. How could law enforcement allow a potential suspect in one of America's most infamous crimes be so vulnerable for a murder unless they believed his guilt and wanted it over. Regardless, the truth has never really been told about either murders and probably never will.

3 comments about Lies, Israel's Secret Service and the Rabin Murder.

1. This book will infuriate, frustrate and frighten you -- but it is a 'must read!' It proves beyond a doubt that the Rabin assassination was much more complicated than has been presented. Crucial evidence was lost, tampered with, or stolen. Doctors' reports disagree. The book leaves the reader with haunting questions. David Morrison, a practicing psychiatrist in the United States for 20 years before moving to Israel, joins a growing number of authors who are challenging the official version of who, how and why the late Prime Minister of Israel was killed. Despite attempts by Israeli politicians, the media, and book distributors to suppress alternative opinions, the disturbing questions will not go away. Even the family of Yitzhak Rabin have publicly voiced their doubts and disbelief.

   One of the most important contributions of this book is to place the assassination in context -- a deliberate and sustained official attempt to destroy the opposition. The police, the Secret Service ("Shabak"), and other institutions of government maintained a systematic attempt to discredit and undermine the settler movement and its supporters. The plot involved Ministers and the Attorney General's office, one of whom is now on the Israeli Supreme Court. Rabin's tenure in office may have been one of the greatest threat to Israeli democracy.

   Morrison carefully shows that the Shabak had been caught lying to official commissions of inquiry during the previous administration of Yitzhak Shamir. But the real shift came with Rabin's appointment of Carmi Gillon to head the organization. With opposition to his policies growing, and his popularity slipping dangerously, Rabin saw that the real threat to his policies was from the Right -- Israeli settlers and their supporters. Gillon's war against the settler movement involved recruiting agents to infiltrate their communities and engage in provocative acts, including violence. One of these agents was Avishai Raviv, who is currently on trial in Israel, although all the proceedings are closed.

   Raviv set up phony "terrorist" organizations, attacked and claimed responsibility for killing Arabs, and incited violence. His activities, although known by the government, elicited arrests and wide-spread attacks in the media against the Right wing opposition and the settler movement. It was Raviv who lured Yigal Amir into his cult and encouraged him to kill Yitzhak Rabin.

   Morrison presents a number of disturbing contradictions in the official version of Rabin's death, and the events surrounding that tragic event. There are major discrepancies in doctors' descriptions of Rabin's wounds, and their locations. The official autopsy report indicates that Rabin's spine was unhurt, while all other doctors that examined him noted that his spine was shattered.

   Yoram Rubin, Rabin's bodyguard testified that he was shot by Amir. His clinical report shows that he was only treated for superficial wounds. Leah, Rabin's wife, was told by Shabak agents at the time not to worry because Amir was only shooting blanks. There is no explanation for the absolute breakdown in security surrounding the Prime Minister. There are contradictions in ballistic evidence. The bullets that were recovered were missing for 11 hours between the time of the murder until their mysterious arrival at the police station. Moreover, the bullets do not appear to have been fired from Amir's weapon.

   Was it a "sting" operation -- an attempt to discredit the right-wing -- gone awry? A conspiracy gone wrong? Or an insider "hit?" One of the things I learned from the murder mysteries I've seen in movies is the detectives always ask: who stood to gain the most?




2. This is yet another in a series of authors who try to twist history to prove that "Rabin was not murdered by the extreme right and even if he was, he brought it upon himself". We have certain words for enemies of the Jews who say similar things about our six million murdered brethren. Unfortunately the menu does not allow me to give it "minus five stars".



3. As one who lives in Israel, recalls the live radio and TV broadcasts of that night and the newspaper details the next day, Dr. Morrison's book is indeed an eye opener into what most other people simply glanced over, chose to ignore as irreleant in the first place or have gone into denial about, simply because the consequences of inspecting the facts are potentially earth shattering and scandalous.

   Unlike Barry Chamish's earlier book on the same subject, this book is footnoted with the precise sources of information, most of them readily available to the general public.

   Even Rabin's daughter, in an interview several years ago to the Israeli Woman's magazine "La'Isha", stated at the time that there are questions regarding the events of the night of the assasination that are blatantly not answered by the official storyline.

   Other than attempts to smear Dr. Morrison, this book has yet to be contradicted or have its questions resolved. If you haven't heard of the book until now, it's because so many people would wish it would just disappear.

   It is indeed beneath contempt that the Israel government and left wing press have stifled the issues brought up and have caused a complacent and exhausted Israeli public to long ago forget what they themselves said and reported at the time.

2 comments about The Story of Ford's Theater and the Death of Lincoln (Cornerstones of Freedom).

1. During a time of national triumph, an assassin's single bullet plunged the nation into the deepest despair. On a hundred battlefields with names like Bull Run, Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg, an Dhickamauga, the North and South soldiers clashed until more than 600,ooo mericans lay buried in the ground. April 11" "With malice toward none, with charity for all..." had a premonition of his own death; he saw himself in a casket in the East Room in a dream on April 1st. He was shot on Good Friday, 1865, after admitting to his bodyguard, "I don't want to go" (to the theatre that night. He'd told Mary on an afternoon carriage ride, "I have never felt so happy in my life."
   
   Ford's Theatre was a family venture, owned by John T. whose brothers James and Harry prepared for the president's visit. A framed portrait of George Washington hung over the red upholstered rocker in which Abraham Lincoln relaxed while he watched "Our American Counsin" take place on stage. Seventeen hundred people attended and observed the late arrival of the Lincolns with their fill-in guests, Reed Rathbone and Clara Harris who came in place of General and Mrs. U. S. Grant. Loud applause for the popular (in the North) president basking in victory interrupted Laura Keen's melodramatic acting.
   
   An hour later, the arrival of disturbed John Wilkers Booth went unnoticed as he drank whiskey in the Star Saloon to bolster his plan to help the "noble Confederate cause and immortalize himself." After Lincoln took his last breath, it was proclaimed, "Now he belongs to the ages." Ten days later, Both was killed at Bowling Green, Virginia.
   
   This is the official version from the Northern perspective. Zachary Kent from New Jersey vilified his hero. Studing the United States presidents was his childhood hobby. When you hurt others' aspirations to feel rewarded for a job well done, your job will be in jeopardy and hacking to ruin someone's enjoyment in life can be reversed and a likewise happening to the culprit. God's wrath is explosive. In Sondheim's 'Assassins" at the Carousel theatre in the Round, Booth if first and last, the main character with some discrepancies, such as suicide (never happened) and at the end his ghost (still unchanged from his beginning character) directs Oswald to shoot and killl JFK from his lowly job in Dallas, telling Lee "be one of us." It was far from the actual experinced Booth, blaming his depression on "bad reviews" and the marijuana smoking made for a bad experience all 'round. Booth was narrator at times, oblivious to his surroundings or othrs. But he was front and foremost (the 4th of nine performances), but nothing was new for him -- old hat and matter-of-fact. Dr. Mudd was there butno listing or recognition. The audience were not aware of the circumstances as Lincoln was never shown; those not knowledgeable believed what they saw. The woman on my left asked me, "He didn't commit suicice?" So much for outlandish, wealthy musical composers who play God with history. It was compared by one man as "Springtime in Germany" minus Hitler. Booth was Brutus only in words.
   
   This book serves its purpose well in keeping the facts neatly in words anyone could understand. The Theatre and the Men involved were intertwined in many ways and that evening was the climax for all. Ford's Theatre was closed for a long time after the death of Lincoln.



2. While the assassination of Abraham Lincoln was certainly a major event in the history of the United States, the description in this book lacks some of the depth of historical context needed to understand it. Granted that it is interesting to know Lincoln's state of mind, the modern student needs to understand all of the forces gripping the country at the time. More ink should have been used to describe the length and cost of the American Civil War in order to explain the depth of bitterness many people felt when it ended.
   I am a fan of the Cornerstones of Liberty series of Weekly Reader books. However, I consider this one to be weak in historical background, as the explanations of the situation are not complete.

5 comments about Stephen Coonts' Deep Black.

1. I got this book from the library, am halfway through it, and I give up. I came over here to see what others thought, if maybe I was missing something, but it appears I'm not alone.
   
   Usually I'll force myself to finish a book to give the author a chance. Not this one. I feel no connection to the characters and I'm having trouble keeping track of who's who. We start out with a murder and a missing person, and halfway through the book it appears nothing has been done to solve the initial case; instead we're investigating empty warehouses and castles with a side trip to Thailand and a kidnapping in between.
   
   I'm finding myself reading pages over again to see if I missed something but sure can't find what it was...



2. You'll probably think I need to get out more, but this was my first Coonts book. I wanted to start at the beginning of a series with hopes for the future.
   
   There are three sets of players in this story...the Wash D.C. NSA headquarters team, a field team in Russia and the star of the story..surveilance and weapons technologies. It gets tedious as Coonts' technological descriptions get more detailed to make the reader believe the more outlandish. If you're a Clancy fan, you will obviously love this sort of thing.
   
   The characters themselves are an odd mix of flawed people that didn't quite gel for me. Even at the end of the book, I wasn't sure of most of their motives.
   
   There are events on the Washington end that are but soapy suds, and have no bearing on the outcome of the story. This type of thing distracts from the real action happening. I found this filler, along with the necessity to keep language on a vulgar level less than appealing.
   
   There is also an underlying animosity between NSA and CIA at a political level. While this may be possible, it is disconcerting to think that our elite intelligence agencies can't cooperate at the topmost levels, and must instead engage in childish competitiveness rather than fully cooperating to serve American security interests.
   
   The most unbelievable aspect of this tale is the ease with which the American field team trots all over Siberia and Moscow, disrupting the Russian way of life with the full cooperation of every Russian they meet. Apparently Coonts thinks that the average Russian wouldn't have a problem with Americans running around in helicopters and other assorted commandeered vehicles, brandishing weapons, driving up to gates of highly secure military bases and so on, and along the way stopping at the local hotels for a few ZZZs and a bite to eat. Huh?
   
   I won't bother with the rest of this series.



3. Steven Coonts writes a highly improbable story about an American covert team (Deep Black) from the National Security Agency gathering data on a new Russian weapon. They fly around in an armed plane and have various firefights - is the Russian military not going to respond in force? If you can skip over the likelihood that this is even remotely possible then you will enjoy the book. This is a suspense thriller and the author says all of the technology exists or is being developed. It is how it deployed that one questions. However, if you're looking for something for a plane ride or you're a Stephen Coonts' fan then you will enjoy the book.



4. Everybody CALM DOWN!!! Who cares if this book was ghost written, or why and how Coonts developed the story? If you like fast, furious action, with plenty of plot twists and turns, then read it. It's almost like watching an action movie--you DON'T always know exactly what's going on every second, but that's the beauty--you eventually find out through the action sequences. RELAX!!
   
   Anyway, if you like this sort of thing--simple, yet action-filled, you will enjoy this book. Sometimes you just need comic-book stuff like this. Go for it!!



5. I rather enjoyed this book, but perhaps this is because I listened to the abridged version. In this version, some of the transitions are rather confusing, but I could still follow along just fine, and it did not spoil my enjoyment of the story.
   
   If you want realism, this is not a book for you. However, if you want a fun, suspenseful, story with cool gadgets, worldly themes, interesting characters, and a lot of action, then I would recommend this abridged version.

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5 comments about The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh.

1. I absolutely loved this book I could not put it down. I can see it as a movie and I hope it gets there. I also hope Rush is bright enough to read this. It's a great read.



2. I loved this book and could not put it down...I found myself up at 3:00 in the morning rushing to the next page. The intelligence and compasion the author put into the book was admirable and fantastic at best! I also could see this book as a movie....Sal....James Gandolfini? Isn't it about time for another great Hollywood Goodfellas movie? Great Book!!



3. I was hoodwinked into buying this book by the few reviews posted here, so I'm hoping to offer a little guidance to others who might actually be interested in political-thriller type novels.
   
   This is a truly amateur, sophomoric effort at fiction writing. And whoever the publishing company is, they've apparently cut out the middleman by foregoing an editor. In a 20-page stretch near the beginning of the book I found a half-dozen anachronisms (using facial tissues in 1915, but not invented until 1930; a female Columbia Law grad in 1917, but no woman at Columbia Law until 1927) and malapropisms (Nez Perce glasses instead of pince-nez, a voice quivering instead of quavering).
   
   The characters are cardboard and events follow the most cliched patterns: in the climactic gunfight in the year 2016 the hero and villain each shoot each other in the right shoulder; then as the villain claws across the floor after his gun, Rush Limbaugh dives onto the floor (at age 65!) to grab the gun and to squeeze off a kill shot. Cheesy, cheesy, cheesy.
   
   This is truly bottom-of-the-barrel stuff. Be forewarned.



4. The Assassination of Rush Limbaugh is the story of two immigrant families in search of the American dream. The family from France takes up law, politics, and police work, while the Sicilian family descends into a life of crime. For the better part of a century, the families' courses fatefully intersect and intertwine until, in the climax, the youngest descendant of the French family finds herself in a losing race to prevent the hit man of the organized crime family from shooting America's number one talk radio personality.
   
   Along the way, readers go to artillery training and World War I combat with Harry Truman. They experience Truman's angst for the Presidential decision to use atomic bombs on Japan and they go ashore with American troops invading Sicily in World War II. Readers sit in the courtrooms where three historical trials change the legal face of America. They experience the life of an American Mafiosi from birth through his membership in a violent Brooklyn street gang to his rise to the inner sanctum of a New York crime family.
   
   Readers tune in to the development of talk radio, and the fear it instills in politicians, from its first broadcast at the 1915 San Francisco Worlds Fair to today's round-the-clock diatribes. They sit in on closed-door meetings where that fear gradually leads powerful politicians to plot the murders of the two most popular talk show hosts.
   
   Readers feel the icy fear and terror in the minds of two victims of exotic and deliberate murder by a hit man whose very name means nightmare in Italian.
   
   And finally, readers get to know Jodie Farmer, as she goes from adolescent to college pal of a mafia captain's son to heroic FBI Special Agent. They feel her take a terrorist's bullet while foiling a nearly successful plot to kill tens of thousands in America's northwest. And they're by her side in the climactic gun battle inside Rush Limbaugh's Florida mansion.
   
   I love the book and highly recommend it.



5. It was a great story or rather, several stories expertly woven together by a masterful storyteller. I truly enjoyed it. I find it hard to believe this is a first effort. I look forward to the next book with anticipation.

1 comments about Trujillo: The death of the goat.

1. This is a very intense compilation of the facts, and circumstances of one unbelievably cruel dictatorship, and the conditions that helped perpetuate it. As a Dominican born after the Trujillo's Era, I'm very glad and thankful that someone (in this case Mr. Bernard Diederich) having been in such a prominent position (Reporter in the Caribbean during the Trujillo's regime), decided to put together all the information that he had access to. This book is an amazing source of information for those who wonder why such a cruel dictatorship lasted so long, and why so many atrocities went unpunished until after the death of the dictator.