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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
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by Vincent Bugliosi
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 1632 pages
Published by: W. W. Norton; 1 Har/Cdr edition May 15, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0393045250
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0393045253
Book Dimensions:
10.2 x 7.1 x 2.7 inches
Weighs: 5.6 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Bugliosi, best known as Charles Manson's prosecutor, spent more than twenty years writing this defense of the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the slaying of President Kennedy, but his obsession has produced a massive tome that's likely to overwhelm most readers. At times, the author seems determined to present every detail his researches revealed, even if it doesn't add to the overall picture (like a footnote on Elvis sightings). Further, while Bugliosi says even serious conspiracy theorists don't claim the FBI or Secret Service were involved, he devotes chapters to each. The book's structure—it's organized by subject, such as theories about the role of the FBI, the KGB or anti-Castro Cubans—leads to needless repetition, and, for an author who excoriates conspiracy theorists, charging them with carelessness and making wild accusations, Bugliosi is not always temperate in his language; for example, twice he makes the nonsensical claim that some Warren Commission critics "were screaming the word conspiracy before the fatal bullet had come to rest." His decision to devote twice as many pages to critiquing Oliver Stone's movie JFK as to his chapter on organized crime (identified by the chief counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassination as the likely conspirators) is a curious one, as is the choice to open the book with a dramatic re-creation of events surrounding the assassination rather than a straightforward chronology of the relevant facts. Moreover, Bugliosi does not always probe whether individuals who are the sole source for certain facts (for example, Oswald's widow, Marina) had any motive to lie. Bugliosi's voluminous endnotes are on an accompanying CD. Gerald Posner's 1993 Case Closed made most of the same points in a much more concise way. 32 pages of illus. (May)
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From The New Yorker
This weighty book (its pages number sixteen hundred and twelve) claims to be the final word on the assassination of President Kennedy. It is as if Bugliosi, who prosecuted the Manson murders, intended to overwhelm with sheer, footnoted bulk. But in the way that others have "proved" conspiracies, Bugliosi "proves" yet again the guilt of Lee Harvey Oswald. He does this by reëxamining familiar evidence but also by dismissing preposterous theories, such as one that J. Edgar Hoover masterminded the murder to keep his job. Bugliosi steps less certainly in considering the work of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which, in 1978, concluded that J.F.K. was "probably" killed as the result of a plot. Citing a National Research Council study, Bugliosi brushes aside the committees acoustic evidence suggesting that four shots were fired in Dallas (a fourth shot would confirm a second gunman); he is uncomfortable with a subsequent analysis, by the British Forensic Science Society, which challenged the N.R.C. opinion. Mysteries are like that"
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Reader Reviews
I have NOT read "Reclaiming History" in its entirety. There. Now I can be accused of a inproper review or something. But I HAVE spent the last 3 days combing through this 1600+ page tome on the Kennedy assassination, and it is by far the most complete and thorough account of that terrible day ever committed to print. Back at the turn of the century (meaning 2000, it's just cool to say it that way), I was working at a public library, and this book (back then it was called "Final Verdict") was the number ONE requested item. However, it kept getting delayed, over and over, until it was finally taken off the records for requests in mid 2004. Well, now we know why it took so long to come out. Spanning twenty years of work and research, this massive book could easily be mistaken for yet another rambling, kooky conspiracy theory-filled diatribe. Yet, it isn't. In the afterward to the paperback version of "Helter Skelter", Bugliosi made it known for the first time that he was writing a book on the Kennedy assassination, and that he believed that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. That afterword was written in 1995, and many true crime fans were waiting, with bated breath, for 12 years for this one. In between, Bugliosi wrote "Outrage: The Five reasons why O.J. Simpson got Away with Murder", which I think was, at the time, his best work, only because it cast such a different perspective on that wretched case. This book, however, is his masterpiece. Bugliosi not only spends the 1600 pages effictively making the case for Oswald's guilt, he debunks virtually every single conspiracy theory that has popped up in the last 44 years, such as "Badge Man", "Gordon Arnold", "The Men Who Killed Kennedy", Oliver Stone's "JFK", and my personal favorite, Dr. Charles Crenshaw, who made the rounds on "Hard Copy" and "A Current Affair" in the mid 90's over his book, "JFK: Conspiracy of Silence", where he, a Parkland Hospital doctor who WAS in the E.R. trying to save JFK's life, SWORE that the President was shot from the FRONT, contrary to other doctors on the scene that day. The famous "Single/Magic Bullet Theory" is proved to have been POSSIBLE, and perhaps even FACT, depending on what you believe. You can toss that whole Oliver Stone "Bullet stopping in mid-air, zigzagging" theory out the window. See the DVD of "The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy" for a computer rendering of how it really happened. Much time is devoted to Oswald, his defection to Russia, his Pro-Castro views, and, most importantly, how he could have caused ALL of the damage to Kennedy and John Connolly that day. Much time is also devoted to Jack Ruby, and all the theories that made him a mafia hitman, designed to take out Oswald before he could talk. Almost all of this has been covered in other JFK Assassination books before, but never in a more thorough and effective manner. I'm already seeing idiots posting "reviews" here, consisting merely of rambling conspiracy arguements. "He didn't examine the EVIDENCE! Kennedy's bullet wound was 3.4453232344353 millimeters in diameter, meaning the shot had to have come from MARS!"....I know, that's SOMEWHAT of a stretch, but it doesn't belong here. Bugliosi spent TWENTY years devoting himself to this case, and the detail of this resulting book shows his effort, and it is fantastic. It IS incredibly bloated, and will now serve as Exhibit A for all conspiracy nuts, who will attempt to debunk everything that Bugliosi himself has debunked in this book for many years to come. This is NOT the book to start your path on this topic. You WILL be overwhelmed quickly. This book IS required reading AND worth owning, but also, please check out Gerald Posner's "Case Closed", Mark Furhman's "A Simple Act of Murder" (one of the weaker JFK books, but still well written), ABC News' "The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy" DVD, and, for the conspiracy side, "The Men Who Killed Kennedy", "Crossfire", and of course, "JFK". For the record, I am still on the fence about who/whom participated in that horrible day. I must say, however, that the arguements put forth in this book make a LOT more sense than hearing that Kennedy was shot by a French mafia hitman wearing a police uniform, or from a manhole cover. I still feel in my heart that there was some sort of conspiracy, but, as Bugliosi points out, it might just be the yearning to believe that our President was killed by something more than a lone nut with a rifle. 5 stars, fascinating. Not for conspiracy believers, although I think we'll see a lot of their opinions here, so be sure to READ those one star reviews.
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