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 Pretty good read Jun 26, 2009
I don't have much to say about this book except that it is very good! A neat read and an interesting perspective on what happened....i'm not sure how much of it is really true but this book is a must read for any theorist out there who has ideas of what they think really happened!
WORTH ADDING TO YOUR JFK SHELF TO SUPPLEMENT OTHER MATERIALS Jan 21, 2009
A reviewer here writes all those involved in the conspiracy, somebody would have talked.
They did
Read Someone Would Have Talked: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Conspiracy to Mislead History
In fact there is so much material you can read which is substantiated by this book.
What is especially compelling here is the hint of the involvement of Texas Oilmen (I always wondered why an Connecticut amd mid-West family like the Bushes suddenly went to Texas while maintaing their sons's education in Yale and Massachusetts; I always wondered how papa bush got to be head of the CIA).
As others mention, there is a little too much of the author chatting into the tape machine while driving around in pursuit of leads, a kindly copy editor might have helped or peer review by the historians. But he does drive around, pursuing things he should have been allowed to chase forty years earlier or more, and he shares his insight with us.
Oswald was a Patsy. Big Oil and the rest (Hoover, etc.) did it.
Know your history. Let this book supplement your studies not as a main source but as a support.
To understand why this is still so important, please read as well the recent JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters.
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 The Omniconspiracy Jan 19, 2009
Bearing all the marks of a self-published book, To Kill A President by M. Wesley Swearingen combines ridiculous assertions, poor writing, and non-existent editing in a combination that presents the assasination of President Kennedy as a conspiracy of epic proportions. Don't worry about the evidence; I was there and you can trust me, right?
Any decent analysis of the book would realize that this is little more than a composite sketch of bits of every other Kennedy assasination conspiracy theory book ever written. Do you think pro-Castro Cubans were involved? Got 'em. How about anti-Castro cubans? Covered there too! And the CIA? You bet! What about the mob? Oh yeah, them too!! ...and every other possible group you can think of as being involved. If you have a favorite Kennedy assasination theory, Swearingen gives your bad guys a piece of the action. I was wondering when he was going to accuse the Girl Scouts of involvement.
As for those who wonder why an ex-FBI agent would lie, you need to ask why an ex-military personnel like Philip Corso would make up stories about Roswell and alien technology that are provable lies or why Tanya Head would make up stories about surviving 9/11 and why Uri Geller would fake psychic phenomena for years. Some do it for the money, some for the attention, and some for unknown reasons.
Swearingen's own omniconspiracy has a timeline so strained that anyone reading it will feel as though they were drawn into a space/time warp where ordinary rules of logic do not apply. In any case, he will likely find a willing and gullible audience for this drivel that will keep him busy with speaking engagements for years to come.
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 Interesting info poorly presented Jan 08, 2009
There is a lot of interesting information in this book. Many names are named and I don't have any reason to doubt the truth of most of it (although I am not well-read on the Kennedy assassination, so I can't say how much this story corroborates or is in conflict with other accounts).
If you are a JFK assassination buff then this might be a must read for you.
My problem is in how poorly organized and edited the book is. For that reason I couldn't give this book more than a couple stars. I realize the author is an (ex) FBI agent and not a professional writer, but that is no excuse for the poor editing and amateurish presentation. Many people and incidents are described in a haphazard manner, leaving the reader to wonder how they are tied together, or sometimes even what the point is.
In summary, much of the content of the book is quite interesting and I'm glad I read it, but unfortunately, I have to say it was a lousy read.
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 Two words for you: Mark Felt Dec 28, 2008
This little book was a quite an eye-opener for me, I'll tell ya! Written by a man who was an FBI agent at the time of Kennedy's assassination, this book makes some fairly strong claims such as the CIA was in on being a part of the Kennedy assassination as well as the Chicago Italian mafia along with some anti-Castro Cuban exiles. The big claim deals with Mark Felt who you may know as "Deep Throat" from the Watergate investigation as conducted by reporters Woodward and Bernstein of the Washington Post.
Recently Mr. Felt passed away (Dec 2008) and was virtually canonized in almost every obit I read on him. NONE of the ones I read mentioned his connection to the Kennedy assassination as is asserted in this work.
This seemed odd to me.
And so it is I gave this book a 4-star rating due to its historical importance. It would have had merited a 5-star but it doesn't read well in parts, and could have used some better editing there to increase the reader's enjoyment of the text. Those troublesome parts don't have as consistent a flow as the better parts of the book, but that's a small complaint relative to how interesting Mr. Swearingen's story is.
I can't remember how long ago it was that I saw a documentary on the Kennedy assassination that basically substantiates the claims in the book. Our president was NOT killed by a single shooter as was stated in the Warren Report. The second bullet that hit the president HAD to come from the front as the Zapruder film and basic criminal forensics would indictate. President Kennedy's head explodes out the back and that doesn't happen with a bullet hitting him from the rear where Lee Harvey Oswald was positioned. The rear is where the little hole would be - the entry wound. The big hole is on the other side - the front of the president in this case... and that's NOT what the Zapruder film shows in such graphic detail.
Which brings me back to Mark Felt, a member of the Training & Inspection Division at the FBI academy at the time. Upon delivering the news to Mr. Swearingen that Kennedy had just been assassinated in Dallas, he was informed by Mr. Swearingen that he had information he'd developed that indicated a conspiracy between the CIA, the Italian Mafia in Chicago and some Cuban exiles. Instead of sending Agent Swearingen to Dallas to aid in the investigation of his findings, he sends him home to his office in Paintsville, Kentucky. Now why would Saint Felt do something like that if he didn't have something to hide?
At this writing, Dec 27, 2008, I'm 56 years old and John F. Kennedy was MY president growing up. I remember in grade school doing our physical conditioning tests that came from the President's Council on Physical Fitness. It felt like President Kennedy was paying individual attention to ME! When he was killed, I was more sad then than from any family death I'd experienced at that point. So I've always had a sort of curiosity about the details of the assassination. It was personal to me.
This book gets a BIG 5-stars on the Level of Interest scale for me. If you are interested in presidential history especially that which is relative to John Kennedy, this is a book you'll find hard to put down until you finish. It will certainly make you think when you read it.
In closing, we Americans like to think our government is good at its heart and looks out for us as best it can. Well... the truth of the matter is our government is just as screwed up internally as things are out here. People are people, they have insecurities, and here's book where one formula is presented to be true: FBI = CYA when it comes to the Kennedy assassination.
I recommend you read it and judge for yourself the veracity of what you find between its covers.
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