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5 comments about Sacred Geography: A Tale of Murder and Archaeology in the Holy Land.

1. Caveat Emptor.

   The fascinating world of Albert Glock is wasted in this wretched display of "yellow" journalism. The first 25 pages tempt the reader with Glock's difficult and languid childhood. After chapter 3, the author loses perspective of his topic, instead providing us with a hackneyed description of Glock's revolutionary methods to find the Palestinian's common ancestors.

   Part two of "Sacred" squanders what could have been a fascinating study into the mind of the radical archaeologist. Instead we are presented with Fox's opinionated and, at times, churlish investigation of Glock's murder.

   If Fox remembered the Birzeit professor's suggestion that the "answer lies in the archaeology", than perhaps he would have foraged deeper into the cultural and intellectual historical influences that formed his eccentric archeological methods.




2. All I have to say is-

   I've read it, and it's good, but I recommend this book's original version- Palestine Twilight. For some reason, the title was changed when it came to America, and some elements were edited out.




3. A well-written, compelling account of the politics and various agendas of two centuries of archaeology in Palestine and Israel, as well as as a troubling and eye-opening study of social, political, and crime issues in Israel and the Occupied Territories in the '90s.



4. The phenomenon that catalyzes - and paralyzes -- the Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to be the riddle of our age. By reopening this 1992 murder investigation, journalist Fox reveals how much wider a puzzle it is. Why has this patch of earth attracted so much political, cultural, and religious investment?
   
   Investigating the murder of Dr. Albert Glock, director of the Palestinian Institute of Archaeology, Fox uncovers the key role Biblical archaeology, an opportunistic subdiscipline founded on the idea that the Bible is a true chronicle of history, has played in Palestine's tumultuous history.
   
   Since the age of the Holy Roman Emperor Constantine, the field has been replete with religious charlatans and swashbuckling adventurers, generals and statesmen, all mining Palestine for biblical wonders to advance their own causes. Fox calls this "negative cosmopolitanism", meaning the identification of many people with one place -- the region's most insoluble problem.
   
   Making the landscape fit the map has served the modern state of Israel, Fox claims, yet soon enough he admits his bias, writing that he "took to rooting for the Palestinian underdog."
   
   Regarding the Hague Convention's 1954 prohibition of excavation in occupied territories, the author gleefully reports Professor Glock's circumventions, while reminding us "all respectable archaeologists" refrained from excavating, "except the Israelis."



5. How important can archeology be today? Unbelievably crucial. In this part of the world it is the justification for worldview, religion, the meaning of life. It seems all of the parties involved come off are charlatans, awful human beings, and trying to justify their own criminality via archeology. This poor Dr Glock gets ineptly kmixed up in it and gets himself killed.
   No matter how complex the issues of Palestine/Israel appear, they are clearly more complicated. And they are international, national, and LOCAL.
   The book is clearly written and fun to read. Do not expect an answer.
   I would have liked even more archeology.

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1 comments about The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Cornerstones of Freedom).

1. Let's examine the LENGTHS to which many rabid JFK conspiracy theorists will go in their crazy attempts at allowing Lee Harvey Oswald to get away with the two murders he so obviously committed on 11/22/63.....
   
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   1.) Eyewitness Howard Brennan sees Lee Harvey Oswald shoot at President John F. Kennedy with a rifle. Plus: Brennan provided a decent "Oswald-like" description in his 11/22/63 affidavit....and this wouldn't even take into account the 12:44 PM APB description put out by J. Herbert Sawyer of the Dallas Police just minutes after the shooting.
   
   So you can toss out that 12:44 description if you want to think it WASN'T provided by Howard Brennan. That STILL leaves Brennan's 11/22 affidavit, which says:
   
   "He was a white man in his early 30s, slender, nice looking, and would weigh about 165 to 175 pounds."
   
   
   THE KOOK RESPONSE ("KR"): Brennan is totally unreliable. .... Or: His eyesight sucks. ... He was coerced into identifying Oswald. ... He wasn't even looking up at the sixth floor at the time of the last shot. ... He described the wrong clothing. ... He couldn't possibly have seen Oswald well enough to give a positive I.D. through a half-open window (DVP interjection: even though Brennan did positively identify two of the black men situated just one floor below the sniper).
   
   
   2.) Lee Oswald's very own rifle is found on the 6th Floor of the TSBD just 52 minutes after JFK's assassination.
   
   
   KR: That rifle probably was "planted" there by dastardly, unknown, unseen conspirators of some ilk. .... Or: It wasn't really Oswald's rifle up on the 6th Floor at all. Instead, a Mauser rifle was found.
   
   
   3.) Oswald's palmprint is found on his rifle the day of the assassination (per J.C. Day of the DPD):
   
   "Your No. 637 is the right palm of Oswald." -- J.C. Day; To WC
   
   That print was lifted off the gun barrel by Day himself before the rifle was turned over to the FBI on the night of 11/22/63.
   
   
   KR: The palmprint was either "planted" there by the Feds or the DPD after Oswald was killed (with a print taken from Oswald in the morgue, no less). .... Or: The print was never really lifted off of the weapon by J.C. Day as he stated to the WC, meaning that Day (along with a cast of hundreds more), was part of a "Let's Frame LHO" plot.
   
   
   4.) Bullet CE399 (fired from Oswald's Carcano rifle "to the exclusion of all other weapons") is found inside the very same hospital where both victims of the shooting were taken, proving beyond virtually every shred of a doubt that Oswald's gun fired that bullet into either Jack Kennedy's or John Connally's body on 11/22/63.
   
   
   KR: CE399 was "planted" in the hospital by another of the faceless, nameless plotters who overtook Dallas that November day. No WAY that bullet could have been inside a victim on Nov. 22! And that "SBT" stuff is nonsense too (in case that's next on David's laundry list)!
   
   
   5.) Bullet shells from Oswald's rifle ("to the exclusion" again) are found directly under the same window from where Oswald himself was seen firing a gun at JFK's car.
   
   
   KR: Those shells were "planted" there by the DPD. Well, at least ONE of them was planted/faked anyway. (It's a PLANT FESTIVAL in Dallas, circa 1963!)
   
   
   6.) An empty paper sack, generally matching the type Oswald was seen carrying to work on 11/22 by two witnesses, is found under the very same window in the Sniper's Nest from where Lee Oswald was seen firing a gun at JFK. The sack has two of Oswald's prints on it.
   
   
   KR: That paper sack was "planted" there by the DPD. It's obvious! It wasn't even photographed by Studebaker or Day! So it COULDN'T have been there when the Nest was first discovered! To hell with those prints of LHO's on the bag! They're fake too. It's obvious. The cops planted the bag, then ran around and (somehow) got Oswald's palmprint and fingerprint and then "planted" the prints on the fake bag. It's kid stuff! (If you're a kook maybe.)
   
   
   7.) Oswald is seen by multiple witnesses murdering policeman J.D. Tippit approx. 45 minutes after JFK was shot from right in front of Oswald's workplace (a location Oswald fled within three minutes of the JFK shooting, even though he had no permission to leave work that early).
   
   
   KR: Oswald never shot Officer Tippit! A nicely-arranged "Oswald Double" killed Tippit. It's obvious, for God's sake! Oswald couldn't have even been there in time to plug Tippit! (Despite various re-constructions that show the trip was certainly a doable one by anybody whose legs weren't in casts.)
   
   
   8.) Oswald's very own .38 revolver is determined to be the weapon that gunned down Tippit, via the four spent shells that littered the crime scene (shells that were ejected--by hand--from Oswald's revolver BY OSWALD HIMSELF, per multiple eyewitnesses to this post-shooting activity).
   
   
   KR: Those bullet shells were "planted" by the DPD. It's obvious, you goof! An "automatic" weapon killed Tippit.
   
   
   9.) Approximately a dozen witnesses in total identified Lee Harvey Oswald as either Tippit's LONE killer, or as the LONE MAN who fled the scene of the crime near 10th Street and Patton Avenue (with a gun in hand, dumping shells along the way).
   
   
   KR: Those witnesses are all wrong! TWO guys did the Tippit job! Acquilla Clemons confirms this. Who are ya gonna believe -- Acquilla (who didn't even see the actual shooting as it was happening)? Or are ya gonna believe Davis, Davis, Scoggins, Markham, Tatum, Callaway, Benavides, Patterson, etc., etc.?
   
   
   10.) Oswald tells one lie after another to the police after he was arrested in the Texas Theater (following a wild fight, in which Oswald attempts to kill more cops).
   
   He lies when he tells police he has "never owned a rifle"; and he lies about the "curtain rod" tale he told Wesley Frazier; and he also lies like a cheap rug about many, many other things which connect him to the Tippit/Kennedy murders.
   
   And Lee Harvey also lies when trying to establish his alibi for the JFK shooting ("I had lunch with Junior" {Jarman} in the lunchroom at the time JFK was shot, he told one police officer....even though "Junior" was photographed on the 5th Floor at 12:30 exactly).
   
   
   KR: We don't have any idea WHAT Oswald told the cops....because they never recorded his statements. Which HAS to mean he's innocent...because ALL the cops who said he was saying these lies cannot be trusted because...er...um...well, because I SAY THEY CAN'T BE TRUSTED. So there!
   
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   Many additional things could easily be added to the above 10-item list. But I think you probably get the idea. That idea being: The conspiracy-loving kooks of the world just DO NOT WANT LEE HARVEY OSWALD TO BE GUILTY OF THESE 1963 MURDERS.
   
   Simple as that. It's crazy (given the evidence saying they're dead wrong) -- but simple.
   
   David Von Pein
   February 2007

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1 comments about I Done My Duty: The Complete Story of the Assassination of President McKinley.

1. You would never know that this is Mr. Seibert's first book. It is very well written. You can tell by the detail that the author did excellent research. The McKinley assassination seems to have been lost in our history. This book corrects that omission. You won't want to put it down.

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1 comments about The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: A Searching Look at the Conspiracy and the Cover-Up, 1968-1978.

1. This was one of the very first books on the RFK assasination and still one of the best. Bill Turner was an FBI agent who published other true crime books and Jonn Christian was a former TV reporter. The prose in this volume, while not spectacular, is highly readable, especially relative to other assasination/conspiracy books. (Is it just me, or do a lot of other people feel a sense of total and irreperable fatigue after about 20 pages of your typical JFK assasination book?)
   
   When one considers the bizarre nature of the known objective facts of the RFK assasination and the stakes involved, it is truly amazing so few books are available. Sirhan Sirhan is a true cipher, and nothing in the 'official' story about him allegedly murdering RFK makes any kind of sense. I will not get into the specifics here, as I think this book spells them out quite nicely, and anyone competant in Google can get a good summary of the points anyway on the 'net. (Also, I highly recommend a book from the early 1990's called 'It's a Conspiracy!' by the National Insecurity Counsel, for a very concise version of these points). But consider one this: The LA Police never released the details of their investigation, destoyed hundreds of crime scene photos and a bullet-struck tile at the crime scene (yes, they destroyed a bullet hole at the crime scene!), and shredded hundreds of pages of witness interviews. Instead of a full report, they released a 'Summary'...in 1986!!! (18 years after the event. Hmmm...)
   
   Americans are astoundingly naive regarding assasinations. We are conditioned from grade school onward to think that assasinations are usually committed by a 'lone nut,' when all of human history shows that virtually all of the time, when a nationally prominent political leader is murdered, it is a conspiracy.
   
   When a schmuck like you or I gets murdered, it might be a lone nut, just like it might be a mugger, or a rapist or a jealous lover. You or I might get murdered for a wallet, or a bag of dope, or it could be a random psycho job. But a national leader gets murdered for political purposes. Period.
   
   If Tony Blair of Vladimir Putin got murdered, would you believe it if the cops said it was just a 'lone nut' that did it? Heck no, you would lay all odds that it was conspiracy because that's the way politics work. Yet the U.S. government expects us to believe that kind of thing only happens in other countries. Give me a break!
   
   When RFK was murdered in 1968, there was no specific federal statute against murdering political candidates, so that the whole investigation was controlled by the LAPD and the LADA. Despite the image purveyed by TV's Dragnet, those agencies where famously, famously, corrupt in those days. And there was no federal oversight.
   
   Anyway, Turner and Christian's book is a really good place to get the most important core facts of the RFK assasination. The basic facts of the RFK case are, to put it mildly, completely bizarre and it is obvious that LAPD did a complete cover-up. The authors do not get into much speculation as to why the LAPD did the cover-up or who actually was behind the assasination, and based on my furhter readings, I think those who get into that territory tend to seem rather speculative. I give this book props for not going into that area without good evidence.
   
   A couple points of trivia. In the immediate aftermath of RFK's assasination and once it became obvious that LAPD was covering stuff up, a bunch of RFK's former boosters and some others formed an ad-hoc volunteer group to investigate the whole thing. This group included Robert Vaughn, a largely under-rated actor who played the Man From Uncle on TV. Robert Vaughn was one of many Hollywood types who had supported RFK. Paul LeMatt,one of the stars of 'American Graffiti,' was also part of this group, and there is a photo of them included in most editions. It's interesting to look back on that corrupt and violent period in America, and know that a few semi-idealistic Hollywood types were trying to push against the current for a little justice. Nowadays of course the media tries to demonize a star who does that, but that is another story.
   
   Anyway, this ad-hoc group eventually enlisted former FBI agent Bill Turner and TV reporter Jonn Christian, and they did what amounts to the first true public investigation into the RFK assasination. I believe that if you read this book you will be amazed at the facts.