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JFK Book Review - Let Justice Be Done · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to JFK book Reviews.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Joe Barelli and as always I have
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  Speaker 2: joined with my co host Rob Clark.
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  Speaker 1: We are the co hosts of the Lone Gunman podcast
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube and tonight we will be reviewing the book
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  Speaker 1: let Justice Be Done, New Light on the Garrison Investigation
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  Speaker 1: by William Davey and Mister Davey is an American independent researcher, author,
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  Speaker 1: and investigative investigators specializing in twentieth century US political history,
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  Speaker 1: with a focus on assassination research and government conspiracies. He
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  Speaker 1: grew up in the United States and developed an interest
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  Speaker 1: in the JFK assassination during the nineteen nineties, influenced by
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  Speaker 1: the release of documents on under the nineteen ninety two
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  Speaker 1: JFK Records Act and Oliver Stone's film JFK. The book
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  Speaker 1: was published in nineteen ninety nine by Jordan Publishing. It
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  Speaker 1: consists of about two hundred and four pages, Meat and
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  Speaker 1: Potatoes consisting of fourteen chapters. There is an afterwards section
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  Speaker 1: that is about twenty ish pages long and has five
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  Speaker 1: pages of endynotes to that section itself. The book has
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  Speaker 1: three appendixes. A is appeared this a is James alcox
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  Speaker 1: closing argument from the Garrison trial. B is Alcock's rebuttal,
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  Speaker 1: and C is Jim Garrison's closing argument.
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  Speaker 2: And it has a very thorough EndNote section, bibliography, and
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  Speaker 2: index section. You could find this on kindle for nine
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  Speaker 2: to ninety nine and paperback used for seventy six dollars
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon and rob This book definitely has a conspiracy
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  Speaker 2: lean towards it.
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  Speaker 3: It does Joe for sure, which is I guess a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of an odd thing for a Garrison investigation
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  Speaker 3: book at this time. You know, it wasn't until the
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  Speaker 3: nineties and after the JFK movie came out, Oliver Stones movie,
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  Speaker 3: that the Garrison investigation and what he was doing down
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  Speaker 3: there actually became somewhat of a positive in the eyes
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  Speaker 3: of JFK assassination researchers and authors. You know, before this,
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  Speaker 3: all the books about the Garrison case were pretty negative
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  Speaker 3: in their view of what he was doing down there.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, in his lifetime he never really got
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  Speaker 3: his flowers except for the movie, which he got to
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  Speaker 3: see before he passed away, But he'd never actually got
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  Speaker 3: to see everything that came out of it, and the
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  Speaker 3: good that came out of it, like the JFK Act
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  Speaker 3: and books like this. You know that I think the
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  Speaker 3: only book before this one to put a positive light
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  Speaker 3: on what Jim Garrison was doing down in New Orleans
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  Speaker 3: was a Destiny Betrayed by Jim de Eugenio, whom he
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  Speaker 3: credits as being one of his mentors and inspirations for
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  Speaker 3: this book. And as you mentioned, this book was published
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  Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety nine. When I first read this book,
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  Speaker 3: I kind of got the sense. And it starts out,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of explaining some of the characters, like
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  Speaker 3: who was David Ferry, who was Guy Banister, giving all
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  Speaker 3: the proper you know, background information, maybe not as detailed
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  Speaker 3: as I would like, but again, information back then was
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  Speaker 3: very limited because a lot of people didn't have access
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  Speaker 3: to all the files that we do now. So you
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  Speaker 3: have to take that into perspective as well when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to analyzing some of the facts that are in
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  Speaker 3: this book. And like I said, it does take a
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  Speaker 3: more of a It puts to garrison investigation and what
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  Speaker 3: he was trying to do down there more in a
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  Speaker 3: positive light rather than point out all the negatives with
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  Speaker 3: how the clay Shaw prosecution went. And I liked that
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  Speaker 3: He included the in the appendices alcock statements and Jim
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  Speaker 3: Garrison's closing statements, and I've done them in pro's form
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  Speaker 3: on the show in the past, because while the movie's great, right,
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  Speaker 3: and Kevin Costner is real great, you know, back into
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  Speaker 3: the left and you know, a good actor and a
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  Speaker 3: good lawyer, Ah, they can make you feel things a
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  Speaker 3: certain way and you want to think that damn it.
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  Speaker 3: Alcock and Garrison were in this courtroom and doing the
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  Speaker 3: same thing, and they really tried to to suaye the
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  Speaker 3: jury with their with their opening and closing statements.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, nothing as spectacular as as the movie,
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  Speaker 3: of course. But I kind of see this book as
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  Speaker 3: a precursor to what I think to be the penultimate,
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  Speaker 3: uh book on the Garrison investigation, and that would be Jones, J.
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  Speaker 3: Jones and Melons Joan Mellon's book A Farewell to Justice.
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  Speaker 3: And again this book has kind of the same let
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  Speaker 3: Justice be done, which is part of a quote that
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  Speaker 3: comes straight from Garrison. Let justice be done, Let justice
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  Speaker 3: be done, or the heavens will fall or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not a great quote quote just if
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  Speaker 3: you will, but it's something to that.
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  Speaker 1: Effect, Yes, let justice be done, though heaven should fall.
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  Speaker 3: And it is in Latin yes six semper tyrannus or
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  Speaker 3: something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Don't ask me to pronounce it, you know.
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  Speaker 3: But and you'll notice the word justice is in both
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  Speaker 3: titles of both William Davies' book and Joan Mellon's book.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a reason for that, because that they think
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  Speaker 3: that Jim Garrison was a honorable American seeking truth and
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  Speaker 3: justice for the murder of John F. Kennedy and was
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  Speaker 3: the only person to ever put anybody on trial for this. Now,
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  Speaker 3: maybe it wasn't the right person. Did he have the
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  Speaker 3: right ideas that this guy had CIA connections? Yeah he did,
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  Speaker 3: but he couldn't prove it back then. But it did
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  Speaker 3: come out that later. Yes, clay Shaw did have CIA
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  Speaker 3: contact connections. He wasn't some super secret CIA agent or asset.
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  Speaker 3: But he was in the right position as a businessman
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  Speaker 3: and international businessman to travel all over the world and
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  Speaker 3: see a lot of things and talk to a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people, of which he would have, you know, been
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  Speaker 3: tasked with debriefing on you know, when he would when
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  Speaker 3: he would return, and who knows how valuable his information was.
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  Speaker 3: But they did. They did this type of thing with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of international businessmen that that traveled to a
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  Speaker 3: lot of different countries just just to kind of gain
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  Speaker 3: some knowledge about what they were privy to. And they
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  Speaker 3: were paid for this, And you know, does that make
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  Speaker 3: him some secret CIA said he was behind the Kennedy assassination.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly not. But was the truth out there then? No,
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  Speaker 3: it was not. It was definitely obscured. And there's basically
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  Speaker 3: two camps when it comes to the Garrison investigation. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: one is he was on a witch hunt and he
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  Speaker 3: persecuted a lot of people, possibly for their sexuality. But
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  Speaker 3: I think in the in the long run, in the
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  Speaker 3: fifty to fifty hind sight of all this, I think
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  Speaker 3: we're in a better place because of the Garrison investigation
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  Speaker 3: and the work that was done to interview new witnesses
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  Speaker 3: and create new documentation. We're in a much better place
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  Speaker 3: and have a much more broader base of knowledge about
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  Speaker 3: some of these characters that are involved in all this
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  Speaker 3: because what was going on in New Orleans in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: sixty three is a very important piece of the puzzle
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  Speaker 3: to the JFK assassination, whether you like it or not,
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  Speaker 3: And ultimately to figure that out could possibly be the
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  Speaker 3: Rosetta Zone to trying to figure out what happened in
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  Speaker 3: Dallas and getting to the truth of everything. And I
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  Speaker 3: think he does a decent job of going through the steps,
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  Speaker 3: at least, you know, in the book it says that
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  Speaker 3: you know, he traveled to New Orleans and conducted many,
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  Speaker 3: many interviews, and I wish there was some kind of
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  Speaker 3: repository for all of this. I don't think the book
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  Speaker 3: is footnoted as thoroughly as it should be, with sources
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  Speaker 3: and all that. He can say, well, I interviewed this
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  Speaker 3: guy and this is what he said. Well that's great,
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  Speaker 3: but how can I verify this information? Right? You say
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  Speaker 3: you have this? You know, well, where is it? Type
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  Speaker 3: of thing? And it's and I would there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of detail missing. There's some characters missing out of this
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  Speaker 3: book that probably should have been in it. Uh, But
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  Speaker 3: you know, it is what it is, and I think
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  Speaker 3: it's a decent precursor to, like I said, Joan Mellon's work,
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  Speaker 3: which detail wise, you can't beat it. When it comes
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  Speaker 3: to looking at everything that was going on in New
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  Speaker 3: Orleans and in the Garrison investigation and viewing it as
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  Speaker 3: a positive thing and not a negative thing. So that's
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  Speaker 3: where that's where I lie on this. So Joe, if
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  Speaker 3: you could go ahead and give us your thoughts on
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  Speaker 3: the book and your rating, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, how to follow up that description, but yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: kind of echo your thoughts. I think it's a very
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  Speaker 2: interesting book, and especially for the time nineteen ninety nine,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess he was writing it for a year
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  Speaker 2: or two before a lot of If you love the
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans aspect of the assassination, it's very interesting. I
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  Speaker 2: liked the the chapter on permaedets I thought was really interesting,
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  Speaker 2: and also how the CIA and media attacked the Garrison investigation.
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  Speaker 2: And I also really enjoyed reading the transcripts of the
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  Speaker 2: Alcocks and Garrison's closing arguments. I thought that was really neat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give this a very solid rob six
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  Speaker 2: comes up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, how about you. I have to compare it, and
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  Speaker 3: this will always be compared to Joan Mellon's book, even
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  Speaker 3: though Joan Mellon's book was published in two thousand and five,
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  Speaker 3: some six years after this one. So when you do that,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, if this was a standalone book
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  Speaker 3: and Joan Mellon's book never came out. I probably would
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  Speaker 3: rate this book much higher than what I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: do now, but because there have been other works much
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  Speaker 3: more detailed, much more intricate, much more analytical, much more researched,
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  Speaker 3: if you will, I mean this is this book is
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  Speaker 3: a very broad stroke approach to the Garrison investigation. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: and you know very little into the minute, grittier details
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  Speaker 3: that I'm looking for. Uh. In the New World.
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  Speaker 2: You love the gritty details.
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  Speaker 3: And I much more prefer my performance of Jim Garrison's
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  Speaker 3: closing arguments than than than reading it in a book.
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  Speaker 3: But uh No, that that being said, I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 3: this book a very middle of the road five guns
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  Speaker 3: up and uh yeah, I can't do any better than that.
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  Speaker 3: It's not great, it's not horrible. It's very middle of
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  Speaker 3: the road. And like I said, it would have been
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  Speaker 3: a lot higher had had Jenn Mellen's book never come out.
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  Speaker 3: So with that being said, folks, we hope you enjoyed
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  Speaker 3: our little JFK book review here of William Davies.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Let just be done, A new light on the Jim
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  Speaker 3: Garrison Investigation, with forward by James D. Eugenio, author of
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  Speaker 3: Destiny betrayed and yeah, it just killed me to say that,
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  Speaker 3: but that's okay. So if you like the book review
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  Speaker 3: until the next JFK book review from the Longoming Podcast
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  Speaker 3: next week, we'll see you there. Peace. Peace,