Rating: Summary: Fantastic Read! Review: This book puts an end to all the speculation about who killed Tippit. The book is complete and well documented. A must read for anyone who is interested in the Kennedy assasination! The Oswald here is not a patsy, but a cold blooded killer
Rating: Summary: This is merely a comment on incorrect spelling. Review: This is not a review, as I haven't had a chance to read the book yet. However, I wanted to point out that one reviewer spelled "malice" incorrectly several times ("malace") and another spelled "Tippit" wrong ("Tippet). Maybe you could either correct their spelling or put (sic) next to the incorrect spelling.
Rating: Summary: Overwhelmingly Persuasive Review: This is one book on the JFK assassination everyone should read! Myers has crafted an overwhelmingly persuasive book about the second murder few Americans know about - the murder of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. Myers' twenty-plus year investigation includes hundreds of never-before-known facts that prove beyond any doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down Tippit within an hour of the assassination of President Kennedy. Myers doesn't spend time focusing on the President's death, butthe implications are clear. The buffs are squirming over this meticulous study - as evidenced by the pseudo-reviews posted here by Mike Griffith and Bill Kelly. They don't want you to read and weigh the evidence for yourself. But anyone that has read this book knows how flawed their objections are. If this subject has haunted you, I highly recommend you make Myers' "With Malice" a priority on your must-read list. You won't be disappointed.
Rating: Summary: With Malice, Dale K Myers Review: This IS the definitive book on the subject. Dale K Myers has wrapped it up nicely, providing logical answers to the question of "who" and "why". I have found this book wonderful, it replaces the bible and brings a *MUCH* needed human side to the story, portraying J . D. as a good person, loving and a wondrful cop. Oswald murdered J.D. , the evidence is overwhelming But as Oswald said "I didn't shoot anybody" Ben...
Rating: Summary: First of its kind, well written, but doesn't close the door Review: This is the first of its kind. The Tippit killing is the most overlooked portion of the Kennedy assasination puzzle and Myers has worked hard to put together what some might see as definitive proof that Lee Oswald killed Tippit. The problem is, that no one other than Tippit and Oswald, both dead, can explain why Tippit stopped Oswald, if it is was him. Myers can not explain the source of the Dallas Police dispatchers description of a similar person to Oswald, although Warren Commission supporters will point to Howard Brennan. Without writing a book within this review, it has been proven by Brennan's own testimony that he did not give a description until after the time of Oswald's arrest. Still, this book brings together a lot of evidence and concentrates solely on the Tippit angle which is refreshing. I personally think there are too many contradictory facts to make an open and shut case here and I would suggest that any would be reader takes note of Anthony Summers' writing in the editorial review section above. I would still buy this book despite the above because it is the first of its kind.
Rating: Summary: Very Solid Review: Though not without flaws, With Malice by Dale Meyers is more than a summation of the Tippit murder as some reviewers suggest, it is a complete retelling. There is no doubt in the minds of most honest assassination researchers that Oswald killed Tippit, and this book has to convince even the dishonest. The reason I give the book 4 stars instead of five however is that Myers goes out of his way to portray Tippit as a good cop and a good family man, neither of which was true. Myers barely admits that Tippit was having affair previous to his murder and then states that if there was an affair, Tippit was probably just trying to help out this poor girl who was having a tough time and needed emotional support. Tippit also was not a good cop per se. He constatntly broke procedure. In fact, in the hour and a half leading up to his murder, he broke police procedure no less than 4 times. Finally, the timeline he offers is not reliable because he uses his own method of averaging out different versions of the dispatch tapes and eye witness testimony. While he does seem to discredit eye witness testimony that does not favor his hypothesis, he is much more objective than most writers on eiter side of the assassination fence.
Rating: Summary: Very Solid Review: Though not without flaws, With Malice by Dale Meyers is more than a summation of the Tippit murder as some reviewers suggest, it is a complete retelling. There is no doubt in the minds of most honest assassination researchers that Oswald killed Tippit, and this book has to convince even the dishonest. The reason I give the book 4 stars instead of five however is that Myers goes out of his way to portray Tippit as a good cop and a good family man, neither of which was true. Myers barely admits that Tippit was having affair previous to his murder and then states that if there was an affair, Tippit was probably just trying to help out this poor girl who was having a tough time and needed emotional support. Tippit also was not a good cop per se. He constatntly broke procedure. In fact, in the hour and a half leading up to his murder, he broke police procedure no less than 4 times. Finally, the timeline he offers is not reliable because he uses his own method of averaging out different versions of the dispatch tapes and eye witness testimony. While he does seem to discredit eye witness testimony that does not favor his hypothesis, he is much more objective than most writers on eiter side of the assassination fence.
Rating: Summary: Overwhelmingly persuasive & thorough!!!! Review: Until Myers' book, JFK was killed in Dallas - end of story. Myers details the timeline & events that occurred in Officer Tippit's murder & why it is so important in the never-ending investigations of President Kennedy's assassination. The physical evidence against Oswald is impressive and Myers' walks the reader through step-by-step. The inclusive correspondence & photographs are convincing and most never before seen. His efforts are commendable!
Rating: Summary: With Malace is not complete nor comprehensive account. Review: While Dale Myers' explores a neglected aspect of the assassination of President Kennedy, his investigation stops short on a number of lines of inquiry that are extremely significant, and so he fails in his task of exposing the total truth. Like CBS, the HSCA, and the FBI before him, Myers traces the license plate of the car seen with Oswald driving near the scene of Tippit's murder to Tippit's best friend Carl Mather. He doesn't tell the reader that Mather's alibi was that at the time of the assassination and murder of Tippit he was at work at Collins Radio. Nor does he convey, and he must have known, that Collins was actively engaged in anti-Castro Cuban activities through its ownership of the ship Rex, which on Nov. 1, 1963 deposited a team of assassins in Cuba. "This is one story that may never have survived had the license number T.F. White supplied not been linked to Tippit through Mathers. The resulting investigation clearly shows that the Mathers were not involved,and that White was less than sure of the information he was supplying than the investigators had been led to believe. Perhaps, that explains White's reluctance to come forward." (With Malace p. 333) Wes Wise, the reporter who obtained the license number from White, in no uncertain terms (HSCA Reports - "The Wise Allegation"), said that he had to use all the powers of persuasion at his disposal because White was afraid and not because he was unsure of his facts. Everyone who has gone down this road before has stopped at Carl Mather's front door and not gone the Collins Radio Route, which I believe is the codex of the Rosetta Stone that helps solve the mystery. Myers has left it for others to investigate that line of inquiry, so his work is not totally comprehensive. His attitude of attacking "critics" is annoying as well, as like Posner, he comes across like he's setting the record straight, but still comes up short with Carl Mather and other points, ie. - Igor Vaganov and the mystery of the wallet found at the Tippit murder scene. Well written, well documented, good graphics, but still short of the total truth. For more on Collins Radio, see my COPA abstract: THE COLLINS RADIO CONNECTIONS to the Assassination of President Kennedy (1994). The best book on the assassination of President Kennedy has yet to be written - the one that solves the case. Bill Kelly billkell@bellatlantic.net
Rating: Summary: Interesting but wrong Review: Yes, this book offers the most complete investigation of Tippit murder. But Myers, reaches all the wrong conclusions.
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