Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 275 pages
- Published by: Trine Day
- Edition: 1st Edition April 1, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0977795306
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0977795307
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Book Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.5 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
"No JFK book can come close to it. . . . Haslam has added many more illustrations, pictures, and maps that let you visualize his story as he tells it."
—Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination (formerly
Probe Magazine)It's an eye-opening ride into government cover-ups, the true role of Lee Harvey Oswald and perhaps one of the biggest medical scandals in history." —Jim Marrs, author,
Rule by Secrecy
Product Description
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that began with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and continued apace, sweeping doctors into coverups of cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine, the arrival of the AIDS virus, and biological weapon research using infected monkeys.
Reader Reviews
Having lived in the New Orleans metro area for almost twenty years, author Edward T. Haslam's expose, "Dr. Mary's Monkey," linking the murder of Dr. Mary Sherman in 1964 to the Kennedy Assassination and to a world-wide health epidemic triggered by cancer- causing viruses effecting the populace today, puts a lot of extra spice in the otherwise already piquant political roux that substantiates the eclectic yet sometimes covert gumbo that differentiates this sultry city from other metropolises in the United States. Not only does Haslam provide residents and other aficionados of this area with a thrilling history of dot-connecting events that literally traverses from one end of St. Charles Avenue to the other, he does so compellingly in simple colloquial language that facilitates his theory involving a cover-up of far-right wing politics gone very wrong. Haslam espouses his New Orleans charm frequently in an engaging manner that makes him extremely readable; his first chapters tell of his remembrances from childhood of primate virus research first brought to his attention by his father, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Tulane University. Later as an attendee of the prestigious Jesuit High School, fellow students (the sons of other New Orleans leaders) pique his curiosity further by providing otherwise unpublished information about a claim made by then district attorney Jim Garrison that connected the recent Kennedy assassination with an underground medical laboratory which was inducing cancer in mice by injecting them with monkey viruses. Rather than spoil Haslam's smooth disclosure of this explosive material involving the prominent Dr. Alton Ochsner, founder of New Orleans Ochsner Clinic and Hospital, the polio vaccine (developed by growing polio viruses in monkey kidneys), a plot to develop a biological weapon meant to stamp out the spread of communism in Cuba and the rest of the Latin American world, the involvement of Lee Harvey Oswald, the Mafia and the notorious David Ferrie and the scheme to obscure the facts regarding the death of cancer-researcher Dr. Mary Sherman, I will focus on Haslam's ability to tell a good story. He devotes a chapter to each of the key figures in his theory, concluding with some well-thought out speculation regarding the rise in cancer in the past fifteen years. If the book has one fault, it is that although Haslam provides the reader with the information that he has accumulated and well-documented, as in any other conspiracy theory, he cannot verify all of his information. The appearance of three Judyth Vary Bakers subtracts from some of Haslam's plausibility, but only if you don't buy into his theory that as he collected information, the puppeteers orchestrating the concealment of the facts delivered a few red herrings, the stink of which attempted to jar him off the right track. Nevertheless, "Dr. Mary's Monkey" scares the reader silly with its implications about how powerful men can bend and twist reality as we perceive it while perilously changing the future of an entire generation. On the higher philosophical plane of right versus wrong, it speaks poorly of our American culture and what can and will be done in the shadow of flag-waving freedom. Bottom line: While Edward T. Haslam's "Dr. Mary's Monkey" suggests scenarios that may or may not be fully substantiated at this time, the author compiles an interesting and totally absorbing page-turner that screams for local, if not national attention. Wisely interspersed with maps, newspaper articles and photographs, Haslam presents his theory in a colorful manner which bespeaks his New Orleans charming background. Recommended. Diana Faillace Von Behren "reneofc"
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