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JFK Book Reviews - The Final Trigger By Randall Windle · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to JFK Book Reviews, the
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  Speaker 1: division of the loneom and Podcast. Just for our lovely members,
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  Speaker 1: it is I the Triple Bezy, along with Italia Joe
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  Speaker 1: the Joe Beazy.
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  Speaker 2: From it The Leazy.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You can tell by the charming fresco behind his head
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  Speaker 1: he is not in the confines of his Connecticut basement.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight's yes, No, I'm not editing that out later. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's okay. Today we were going to.
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  Speaker 1: Be reviewing a book written by an author who unsurreptitiously
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  Speaker 1: requested to be reviewed. So I looked into it and
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  Speaker 1: I said, hmm, this book was recently published in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, so.
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  Speaker 2: Let's give it a shot. I looked it.
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  Speaker 1: Up on Amazon. It was a buck ninety nine joe
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  Speaker 1: for hardcover. You can't beat it. It's called The Final Trigger,
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  Speaker 1: The Truth and Lies of the JFK Assassination, written by
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  Speaker 1: Randall Wendell. Randall Wendell. Now there are some SUSS dudes
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  Speaker 1: on the cover of this here book, namely one E
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  Speaker 1: Howard Hunt and one Alan Dulls.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but we'll get there. I promise.
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  Speaker 1: The Final Trigger it's it's healthy.
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  Speaker 4: I was about to say, give it a smack for me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's healthy. Slim thick is what we call him
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  Speaker 1: down here down South, slim thick, deceptively thick.
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  Speaker 4: I respect that.
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  Speaker 2: So tell us a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: More about this here book, Joe, if you would please, sir.
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  Speaker 4: Sure, As you mentioned, it was written by Randall Wendell,
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  Speaker 4: published by Penn and Sword History, which is out of
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  Speaker 4: South Yorkshire or Yorkshire, one of those two.
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  Speaker 2: Or Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Yorkshire, Pudden.
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  Speaker 4: And I think the hardcover was published in February twenty
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  Speaker 4: twenty five, like two months later, and it's about three
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  Speaker 4: hundred pages depending on your copy. And like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: on Amazon used copies are as of today you can
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  Speaker 4: get the hardcover for two dollars and seventy eight cents,
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  Speaker 4: which is pretty.
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  Speaker 2: Much new copy, yes apparently yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And kindle edition is sixteen ninety nine. There are eleven
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  Speaker 4: chapters with an acknowledgement section, a bibliography section, footnotes by
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  Speaker 4: chapters which we always love, and an index as well.
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  Speaker 5: And I'd say this book is mostly has a historical
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  Speaker 5: but slight conspiracy lean because the author doesn't go out of.
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  Speaker 4: This way to take stances kind of just puts out
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  Speaker 4: some of the facts. So with that, I'll let you
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  Speaker 4: do the meat and potatoes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When I got it, it must have been on sale. It
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  Speaker 1: went up from one ninety nine to two seventy eight,
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  Speaker 1: which is ninety two percent off. It's a hell of
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  Speaker 1: a deal. Is it worth it? Short answer, I would say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can't beat that cheap of a price for a hardcover,
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  Speaker 1: hardcover book, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Now the copy I got.
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  Speaker 4: Especially if you're an Amazon Prime member, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I am. Yeah, I to you almost have to be
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  Speaker 2: uh these days.
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  Speaker 1: But the copy I have was published in England. It
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  Speaker 1: is a British copy.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And I must say I was definitely skeptical when I
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  Speaker 1: got the book. I was like, oh Lord. And that
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  Speaker 1: just comes from the cover, you know. I see Howard Hunting,
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  Speaker 1: I see Alan Dulles, and I say, oh shit, here
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  Speaker 1: we go.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Now, there is a little bit of that in
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  Speaker 1: this book, Joe. He does go through the deathbed confession
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  Speaker 1: of the Howard hunt the Tramp's allegations. That's what Saint
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  Speaker 1: John Hunt, his son, had to say about the matter.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, there you know, is Alan Dulla's suspect sure,
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  Speaker 1: of course he is, we'll see the mastermind of the assassination.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not, And that's not what he asserts in this book.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, there are very few assertions that the author
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  Speaker 1: decides to stand behind in this book. It's more like
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like a primer Joe for the assassination for
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  Speaker 1: somebody who doesn't know much but wants a broad spectrum view.
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  Speaker 2: Of everything overview.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of which this book does a good job.
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  Speaker 1: And it does touch on a little bit of things
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  Speaker 1: from what BOUGLIOSI may have said about something or or
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  Speaker 1: like that. It's just not strictly all conspiracy on it's
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  Speaker 1: like ninety two percent conspiracy, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of antagonization thrown in, and the
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  Speaker 1: book starts off kind of setting the table for I
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  Speaker 1: guess the environment of the time, you know, the Cold
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  Speaker 1: War era, Yeah, the Cold War era, the politics, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, the back door strategies and the chess maneuvering
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  Speaker 1: of of everything. And then he kind of goes into
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  Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy's life, even prints in here his favorite
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  Speaker 1: John F. Kennedy's speech, and he does reproduce some interesting
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  Speaker 1: interviews in this book with Urini Sanco, Marina Oswald during
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  Speaker 1: the Garrison case, things like that, and of course he
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  Speaker 1: goes into Lee Harvey Oswall's Russian defection. He does talk
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  Speaker 1: about General Walker. He does have like William Duff's I
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  Speaker 1: Detect Her Test in here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's cool.
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  Speaker 1: And he does touch on Lee Harvey Oswald the militant
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  Speaker 1: and you know, his Marxist beliefs and the fair play
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  Speaker 1: for Cuba connections and all of that, and and also
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  Speaker 1: kind of in there touches on Mexico City. Now there's
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  Speaker 1: not a chapter in here devoted strictly to Mexico City,
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  Speaker 1: although there should be. He does touch on it very slightly.
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  Speaker 1: He definitely goes into the Parkland in Bethesda issues, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And there was something in here that I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that there was three fragments of the
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  Speaker 1: President's brain found. You know, we've all heard about the
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  Speaker 1: Harper fragment, right, and there's actually another piece called the
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  Speaker 1: Delta fragment, which is allegedly the piece that Jackie Kennedy
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  Speaker 1: was crawling on the trunk four. And of course there's
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  Speaker 1: the Harper fragment, and then there's something called the Whitzman fragment,
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  Speaker 1: so pretty interesting stuff there. He does touch on the JD.
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  Speaker 1: Tippett murder and all the different scenarios there, although it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't go into great detail, it definitely could have been
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  Speaker 1: a longer chapter.
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  Speaker 2: It was three or four pages for the Tippet murder.
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  Speaker 1: Then he goes into the capture of Oswald, his final
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  Speaker 1: hours and interrogations. He talks about Jack Ruby and all
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  Speaker 1: his supposed connections and possible motives, even goes into uh,
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  Speaker 1: Dorothy Kilgallon a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He touches on Jolly and West and I'm interviewing Jack
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  Speaker 1: Ruby and things like that that are relatively newer, so
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  Speaker 1: definitely good addition for that. And then of course his
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  Speaker 1: last chapter kind of sums up the book and talks
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  Speaker 1: about the truth and lies of the JFK assassination. And
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  Speaker 1: also in the middle of this book, Joe, there is
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  Speaker 1: a glossy pages section. Yeah, and we get some pictures.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe it about twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's quite a few in here, and pages. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they're very good in quality. You know, you got Oswald
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  Speaker 1: and the Marines shooting his rifle, Marina and her sweet
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  Speaker 1: tits with no Brawlong unburdened. Yes, yes, good lord, there's
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  Speaker 1: a JFK and Jackie getting married, and there's the great
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  Speaker 1: picture of David.
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  Speaker 4: Serry Civil Air Patrol.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, nuts to butts as only David Ferry likes it.
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  Speaker 1: And and there's many many more, many many more. So
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  Speaker 1: with that being said, Joe, uh, tell us what you
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  Speaker 1: thought about it and give us your ratings there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I I liked how he kind of set the
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  Speaker 4: table with you know, the the Cold War era and
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  Speaker 4: the Cuba of missile crisis. Because you know, if you're
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  Speaker 4: listening to this and you remember where you listen to
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  Speaker 4: it later, uh, you know, I believe all roads lead
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  Speaker 4: back to Cuba, and I I like how he just
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  Speaker 4: gave a lot of context and a lot of these
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  Speaker 4: different areas, you know, I you know, I would have
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  Speaker 4: probably liked some more ah content on tipp It per se,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, you can't sum up the tipp it
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  Speaker 4: in four pages or maybe even four hundred pages. But
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a very good book for like the
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  Speaker 4: person people that are interested in history that might not
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  Speaker 4: know about the assassination, right that that want like a
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  Speaker 4: great over a good overview of of of everything that
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  Speaker 4: that led up to the Kennedy assassination and some of
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  Speaker 4: the things that happened in the aftermath and and the
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  Speaker 4: cover up. And you know, I I I think it's
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  Speaker 4: a pretty strong book. I think, you know, he doesn't
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  Speaker 4: really take a definitive position on on a lot of things,
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  Speaker 4: which is okay. He just gives a lot of facts
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  Speaker 4: out and if that gets it's probably not a book
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  Speaker 4: for you know, people that are members of our channel
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  Speaker 4: that know many of these things. But like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: there are some tidbits in there that are interesting and
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  Speaker 4: and hey, man, if you can get it for three bucks,
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  Speaker 4: I'd say it's well worth it. And I think it's
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  Speaker 4: I think I forgot to mention it's twenty five euros
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  Speaker 4: if you were to buy it in the UK, So
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  Speaker 4: it's I thought it was solid, very very solid book.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm going to give this pretty solid six guns up.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you to thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: How about you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Again, this book is not going to wow you with
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  Speaker 1: new information. And if you're a student of the game,
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  Speaker 1: as we say, and if you watch our show, then
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  Speaker 1: you probably are as well, because we get the weeds
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  Speaker 1: with things. We are definitely not an entry level podcast
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the JFK assassination.
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  Speaker 4: That is true.
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  Speaker 1: But this is, like I said in the beginning, a
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  Speaker 1: good primer for those who want a broad spectrum view
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  Speaker 1: on the more known parts of the case. Like he
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  Speaker 1: stays away from getting in the weeds of certain things.
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  Speaker 1: And one thing one criticism I do have is not
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  Speaker 1: doing and I'm not saying he didn't do any primary
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  Speaker 1: document research, but there's a lot in here where he's
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  Speaker 1: citing the work of other authors, right, and we all
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  Speaker 1: know how that goes. In fact, this Friday night, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to debunk some popular myths about something else to
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  Speaker 1: do with the case that have been written about and
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  Speaker 1: repeated and written about and repeated and have become cannon
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  Speaker 1: in the assassination folly, but possibly may never have happened.
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  Speaker 1: At least we don't have any proof that it happened.
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  Speaker 1: You know, stories or stories, and you know, But I
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  Speaker 1: think Randall did a fine job for a brit You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to be an American, right, and to
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  Speaker 1: write about your own country's political history, but when you're
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  Speaker 1: a foreign her and you have enough, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what the word I'm looking for gumption or care about
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  Speaker 1: a powerful leader who was assassinated. And uh, you know
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  Speaker 1: that that just goes to tell you that JFK was
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  Speaker 1: not just beloved here in America at the time of
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  Speaker 1: the assassination, but all over the world. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: really on that peace train and many people respect it
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  Speaker 1: and still respect it to this day. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: it would be like Joe writing a book on Margaret
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  Speaker 1: Thatcher or something.
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  Speaker 2: Probably never happened.
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  Speaker 4: Oh shit, she is an interesting she was an interesting lady,
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but the care level just isn't there for you
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  Speaker 1: to dive in and write a book.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I would be more like Jack the Ripper book.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: But I respect the effort for sure. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: is a very good primer. It has it gives a
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  Speaker 1: good broad overview of the facts of the case.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, hey.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if Bart is listening to this book review,
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  Speaker 1: you might want to get Randall involved in dp U K.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he'd uh, he'd love to give a talk.
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  Speaker 1: And he's in your neck of the woods, right or Randall,
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening, you know, reach out to Bart and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, get some play man. But Joe, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give this book for for everything that it is.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, there have been many books who
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  Speaker 1: have given overviews of the Kennedy assassination. Some have done
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  Speaker 1: it better than this one, some have done it worse
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  Speaker 1: than this one.
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  Speaker 4: MH.
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  Speaker 1: So I am going to give this a strong seven
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  Speaker 1: guns up, Joe seven. Is it worth the money? Hell yeah,
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  Speaker 1: especially right now while it's on sale, So go to
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  Speaker 1: Amazon and grab it while it is still on sale,
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  Speaker 1: or you will be paying twenty or thirty bucks bucks
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  Speaker 1: for this thing.
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  Speaker 4: All right? That's uh. I think I think we're pretty close.
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  Speaker 4: We're on the same page.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the folks, we hope you liked our book review.
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  Speaker 1: You already love us, you're already members, and we thank you,
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  Speaker 1: and this is our thank you to you, part of
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  Speaker 1: it anyway, and we hope you enjoyed the book review.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, if it interests you, check out
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  Speaker 1: this book. Support Randall. Like I said, he jumped in
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  Speaker 1: our comments section and he said, boy, I wish you guys.
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  Speaker 1: I would hope to see someday my book reviewed on
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  Speaker 1: your show. Guess what, Randall, The day has come and
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  Speaker 1: you have been blessed by Big Bad Bob and Joe
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  Speaker 1: b you have been reviewed and judged, sir, and we
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  Speaker 1: didn't kill you. We applaud you. Hell of an effort.
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  Speaker 1: Go out and grab it while it's hot, while it's
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  Speaker 1: on sale. That's the final trigger, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Uhtla, Sorry, I uh I restarted it by trying to
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  Speaker 3: stop it.
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  Speaker 1: The Truth and Lies of JFK's Assassination by author Randall Windell.
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  Speaker 1: Randall Windell, Randall Randall Randall, Randall Windell. It's a slight
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  Speaker 1: tongue twister. Yes, so that does it for this week's
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  Speaker 1: book review, Baby, be sure to join us next week
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  Speaker 1: for the same thing. Tune in tomorrow evening if you
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  Speaker 1: are watching this today, Tomorrow is members only day where
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  Speaker 1: we'll hit part two of episode three and eighty.
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  Speaker 4: Or if you're in Australia or Italy, tune in later tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, something like that. Anyway, Joe will still be up
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  Speaker 1: and read it, eye and very frazzled. Probably maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little confused nerves.
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  Speaker 4: I'm always a little confused.
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  Speaker 2: No, you better eat good while you're over there, I damn.
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  Speaker 4: It, Oh my god. I will have pictures for the
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  Speaker 4: members only of the food I've been cooking.
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  Speaker 1: Here fair enough, fair enough, all right. Well that's it
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  Speaker 1: for us, folks. Thank you Joe from Italy, and thank
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  Speaker 1: you Rob from m hm uh Virginia and uh we'll
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  Speaker 1: see you soon folks.
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  Speaker 2: Until then, bee
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  Speaker 4: Hm