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Summary: Duh
Review: This book isn't even written well. I could hardly read it. It's too bad. I'd sure hate to thinks the government was hiding something from us. I'd never know because I couldn't finish the book it was so poorly written.
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Summary: JFK's assassination tactfully approached
Review: this book will interest you regardless of your own theories about the kennedy assassination. whether you think that it was a 'lone gunman' or a 'conspired plot'. Crossfire gathers PURE FACT and lets the reader draw their own conclusions as to what happened. this book does not not finger a sole theory on the incident but rather outlines all of the known events that lead up to and after JFK's trip to dallas.i'm not big on 'conspiracy' but i found this book to hold an amazingly wealth of information. if this subject matter interests you at all, why not pick up the book that was much of oliver stone's inspiration for the movie JFK. the summation of this book is what the warren commission report *should* have been.
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Summary: easily one of the best JFK assassination books ever!!!
Review: this is one of the most comprihensive and one of the best assassination books ever!!! you want the real truth to who killed Kennedy and why? read this. don't go fantasizing about how Oswald fired 1 shot which did 7 wounds and came out in prestitne condidition, ala Gerald Posner, read the facts! Marrs book was so good that along with Jim Garrisson's book, the movie JFK was born, which in turn created such a fire storm, that the American Government had to pass the Assassinations Freedom Act!!!!! what other book has ever done that? not gerald posners. this book covers everything. it talks about oswald, ruby, the cia, the mafia, the cover-up, garrisson, dallas, new orleans, the warren commission, the house assassinations committee, and even talks about both lyndon and hoover's role in the assassination. this book is a bit long, and at times, you do get bored, but this book consisits of facts, unlike Posner who uses fantasy to make it look like Oswald and only Oswald killed Kennedy. my favorite part of this book is when Marrs compares the whole Kennedy assassination to Julis Cesar. like Brutus says, "it's not that i didn't like Cesar, but i like Rome more". the same applys for LBJ, except he hated Kennedy and knew if he didn't do something, that is his childhood dream of becoming President would die. if hoover didn't do something, he knew he would be retired as FBI director. if the CIA didn't do something, there power would dwindle, just like JFK had said. the Mafia needed to get revenge. like Jim Garrisson once said, everything about the Kennedy assassination points towards 2 things: the Bay of Pigs, and the CIA. what's not as important is who fired from what window, it's about who killed Kennedy, who had the benefited, and who had the power to cover it up. figure this out, and you've got the truth to who killed Kennedy. E'tu Lyndon?
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Summary: It's a really good book
Review: This is, in a word, terrific. It tells everything you need to know about the JFK assaination.
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Summary: Disappointing and Unreliable
Review: This one is more of a guilty pleasure than a serious work. Not very well researched it seems to throw everything into the pot without regards to veracity. Nothing is footnoted: not quotes, assertations or newspaper articles. So if you want to follow up on or verify something you read here, good luck because you are on your own. The structure of the book follows no logical flow either- just pick and choose from the table of contents and read whatever you want that day. Like I say, if you want a fun book on a not-so-fun subject get it. If you are looking for investigative research to be taken seriously, don't even bother.
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Summary: One of the Best on the Subject
Review: This very readable 600 page book lacks an index, but the Table of Contents list the topics. The "Selected Bibliography" lists many of the books on the JFK Assassination; it does not have David E. Scheim's "Contract on America", Mark North's "Act of Treason", of Fletcher Prouty's book on the JFK Assassination Plot. On page 273 Nixon says of Watergate "the problem is it tracks back to the Bay of Pigs".... H.R. Haldeman's book said "the Bay of Pigs" was Nixon's code word for the JFK Assassination! Earlier pages tell of Nixon's connection to Murray Chotiner, Allen Dorfman, Charles Rebozo, etc. Pages 276-278 give a short history of Big Oil's influence. JFK's Executive Order 11,110 called for the issuance of United States Notes by the Treasury, rather than borrowing currency from the Private Banking Cartel ("Federal Reserve System") and paying about $100 million a year in interest (p.275). This would lead to a lower deficit and less in taxes. Jim Marrs' "Rule By Secrecy" tells how the Federal Reserve System was created in 1912. Page 303 tells about the "Training Under the Mutual Training Program" document. Its plan was to encourage coup d'etat by foreign military controlled by America. The 1960s saw many examples in South America, Burma, South Vietnam, etc. The purpose was to create reserves of cheap labor for use by American corporations after they shut down and dismantled domestic factories, or, captive markets for the products if these corporations. Pages 340-345 discuss the murder of Officer J.D. Tippit, and the problems in claiming Oswald did it. Officer J.M. Poe stated he put his initials on two cartridge cases found there; they were missing from the inventoried evidence. One of the bullets did not match its case, and none of the bullets could be matched to Oswald's revolver! Page 353 tells of two witnesses present at the Texas Theater who say Oswald was there at 1PM, before Tippit was killed. Page 354 tells of another young man arrested and taken out the rear door. Pages 363-365 tell about the finding of Commission Exhibit 399, the "magic bullet" that provided a link to Oswald's rifle. The Parkland chief of security said the bullet had a pointed tip, not the round nose of CE 399. Newsman Seth Kantor said Jack Ruby was there at the hospital (p.366). Pages 373-376 tell of the "alterations" in the President's wounds: the shots from the front witnessed in Dallas became shots from the rear in Bethesda! The Dallas doctors said the right rear portion of the head was missing. The Bethesda doctors said the wound stretched from the upper side of the rear to the right front. Instead of "alterations", could they have used a "body double"? Dorothy Kilgallen, a syndicated columnist for Hearst, had a private interview with Jack Ruby; she told friends "I'm going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century". But she was soon found dead of an overdose of alcohol and pills (p.424-426). No trace of her notes or writings about Jack Ruby were ever found. When Jack Ruby was interviewed by the Warren Commission on 6-7-64, he said his life was in danger in Dallas, and he could tell more if he was brought to Washington. Earl Warren refused (p.427). Ruby's secrets died with him; he developed lung cancer in prison. Pages 435-436 tell of the witnesses's stories about the origins of the shots. Do different sources show unreliability, or shots from different locations? "All in all, there is not one single piece of physical evidence used against Oswald that cannot be called into question. This evidence must be considered in light of the possibility that much of it could have been planted for the purpose of incriminating Oswald in the assassination" (p.458).
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Summary: Best Intro to the Kennedy Assassination
Review: We used Jim Marrs' book in the college course I took examining the JFK assassination. The instructor could have assigned us The Warren Commission Report, but, instead, we were given two or three two-page handouts, double spaced, which contained all the necessary facts from the government's point of view. Basically, from the 880+page report, these handouts were all that were necessary.
"Crossfire" doesn't cover the 90's decade, but that's all that is "wrong" with it. It's the best introduction, bar none, to the Kennedy assassination, and the first book I would recommend to anybody seriously interested in studying this American tragedy.
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Summary: Jim Marrs will go down in history...
Review: Without a doubt, Jim Marrs will enter history for CROSSFIRE. Besides being utilized by Oliver Stone in his epic "JFK" movie, CROSSFIRE has opened new doors of awareness regarding the public execution of John F. Kennedy. Researchers and interested parties of ALL ages should find CROSSFIRE to be a wealth of information regarding the cover-up of the murder of the President of the United States. The truth is at hand. Take heed!
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