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JFK Book Reviews - Bloody Treason By Noel Twyman · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to JFK Book Reviews. Alongside
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  Speaker 1: me is Joe Borelli. I am Rob Clark, and today
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be reviewing the book Bloody Treason by
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  Speaker 1: Noel Twyman. We both have a copy. This buddy is thick, boy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, look at that thing. Is it smacked? This one?
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  Speaker 1: And it feels good? On solving History's greatest murder mystery
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  Speaker 1: by Noel Twyman. Now, this book clocks in Joe at
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred and nine pages long. It is chock full
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  Speaker 1: of stuff, thirty two chapters, five parts, an index, a bibliography, appendices.
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  Speaker 1: It even has a picture index because it is chock
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  Speaker 1: full of pictures. I believe every frame of the Suppruver
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  Speaker 1: film is in color reprinted in this book, so it
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  Speaker 1: is that's awesome. Now. This book was published in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven by Laurel Publishing and Nold Twyman was a
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  Speaker 1: former US Naval officer. He was also, in his professional
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  Speaker 1: life an engineer, and he had a master's in Business
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  Speaker 1: administration from Pepperdine University. Over the course of his life,
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  Speaker 1: he managed to have several patents and start and found
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  Speaker 1: two separate companies in energy systems and aerospace test facilities,
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  Speaker 1: which means, Joe, that this guy was loaded. He had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. Now he kind of falls into
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  Speaker 1: the John Armstrong mold where something about this case grabbed
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  Speaker 1: him by the gonads and said, you must research me.
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  Speaker 1: And when you have a lot of resources and money
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  Speaker 1: to travel and pay for interviews and put people up
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  Speaker 1: and spend time with them, become friends with them and
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  Speaker 1: coerce things out of them, it's a very valuable thing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this book definitely comes from a conspiracy lean. So, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: if you will take us into the meat and potatoes
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  Speaker 1: of this bad boy.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. So what do I think the author was trying
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  Speaker 2: to achieve? Well, having not previously dealt into the jfk assassination,
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  Speaker 2: I think he approaches book, as he stated in the intro,
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  Speaker 2: from the viewpoint of a prosecutor, with a methodical process
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  Speaker 2: of an engineer, which he was, and presents both arguments
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  Speaker 2: and counter arguments in an objective way. He tries to
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  Speaker 2: answer questions like were the CIA and FBI involved, Was
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  Speaker 2: the Secret Service involved? Were the medical doctors who performed
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  Speaker 2: the autopsy involved? Was LBJ. Lindon Johnson involved? Was there
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  Speaker 2: a larger conspiracy involving the military industrial complex or right extremists,
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  Speaker 2: even at an international level. Could it happen again? These
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  Speaker 2: are questions that the author attempted to take on. He
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  Speaker 2: also tried to provide a behavioral and psychological understanding of
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  Speaker 2: how this terrible crime could have been conceived and carried
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  Speaker 2: out by citizens of the United States of America. And
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  Speaker 2: he attempted to answer the basic question of why this
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  Speaker 2: crime was committed and even more disturbing, why the media
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  Speaker 2: and power structure allowed it to be covered up. So
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of in five different parts. The first part,
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  Speaker 2: The Prelude, develops a hypothesis based on superficial evidence looking
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  Speaker 2: at obvious big picture plus what was widely available to
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  Speaker 2: the interested public within about ten months after the President
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  Speaker 2: was murdered. Second part, Murdering cover Up develops key forensic
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  Speaker 2: scientific evidence, including the medical evidence and related testimonies. The
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  Speaker 2: third part, Mixtures Cops and Spies develops evidence concerning organized crime,
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  Speaker 2: the Dallas Police, the CIA, and the military intelligence. Fourth part,
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  Speaker 2: Right wing Extremists and power politics develops evidence concerning the
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  Speaker 2: military industrial complex, right wing extremists, and Cuban exiles. Fifth
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  Speaker 2: part conspiracy and cover up, develops evidence concerning secret Service
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  Speaker 2: LBJ and j Eddahoova, and the final chapter kind of
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  Speaker 2: sums up his thoughts and presents a theory based on
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  Speaker 2: what he learned and discovered over his I think it
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  Speaker 2: was five year journey of writing this book, But I
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  Speaker 2: like this book a lot, rob because he spends a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time focusing on characters that I think were
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  Speaker 2: likely involved in the assassination, like certain Cuban exiles from
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  Speaker 2: Inner pen and certain soldiers of Fortune, But on the
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  Speaker 2: other hand, also spends a good amount of time on
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  Speaker 2: characters that I don't think we're involved, like say, for example,
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  Speaker 2: Richard case Neguel and might have put a little too
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  Speaker 2: much weight into what Gerald Patrick Hemming told him, of course,
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  Speaker 2: one of the most gifted bullshit artists surrounding the assassination case.
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  Speaker 2: But the book is very well written. It's easy to
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  Speaker 2: follow along with his writing as he gives background on
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  Speaker 2: certain areas of the case, and even if you didn't
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  Speaker 2: know anything about it, he kind of lays out both
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  Speaker 2: the arguments and the counterpoints and it's easy to follow.
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely well sourced. To Appendix ease about twenty two
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  Speaker 2: pages and the footnote section, nicely organized by chapter, is
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  Speaker 2: about twenty five pages long. Sometimes he quotes from other
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  Speaker 2: authors books a little more than I would have preferred.
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  Speaker 2: But Rob, what is your rating? What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Joe, I will tell you as you can see.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I do use this book as a resource.
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  Speaker 1: I've never sat down and read it cover to cover.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know anything about the assassination, it would
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  Speaker 1: be a good book for you to start with because
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  Speaker 1: it covers damn near everything. There's not enough to me,
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  Speaker 1: not enough Oswald, not enough Dallas based investigation in here.
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  Speaker 1: But that's just my own personal preference for some things.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this book, some very interesting things did come
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  Speaker 1: out of it, like the interview with Ruben Carbhall and
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  Speaker 1: his insights on David Morales and what he said over
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  Speaker 1: the years. So you know, I think this book does
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  Speaker 1: have value if you are interested in the case. For me,
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  Speaker 1: I don't agree so much with his conclusions of things
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  Speaker 1: or his speculative ideas, but that being said and put
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  Speaker 1: to the side, personally, I think it's a valuable resource.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're going to pay dearly for this book right
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  Speaker 1: now is on Kindle. If you want a new copy,
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  Speaker 1: it's two hundred and three dollars. The kindle version is
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, which is your best bet. A used crappy
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  Speaker 1: copy of this book is eighty eight dollars, and a
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  Speaker 1: collectible copy is pushing upwards of three hundred at this point. So,
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  Speaker 1: but that being said, is it worth the money. It
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  Speaker 1: ain't worth that much money. Go with the kindle version, folks,
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, unless you're one of these nerves like
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  Speaker 1: us who loves to have the physical copies in your hands.
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  Speaker 1: You know, me and Joe got lucky, you know, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years ago when this thing wasn't so hot,
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  Speaker 1: but you know it ebbs and flows. Give it some time,
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  Speaker 1: it might go down and praise who knows. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give it based on you know what it's got
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  Speaker 1: in my personal views on it, A six guns up, Joe, one, two, three,
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  Speaker 1: four or five six guns up?
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  Speaker 2: Baby, I respect it, I respect it, and I agree
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  Speaker 2: with everything you said. For sure. It definitely is a resource.
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  Speaker 2: I know We've quoted it a lot of times on
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  Speaker 2: our show. You know. Ironically, one of the most interesting
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  Speaker 2: interviews that came out of his research journey that of
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  Speaker 2: Roy Hargraves of interpend was excluded from this book. Was
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  Speaker 2: actually some parts of that interview were included in the
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  Speaker 2: first edition copy of Larry Hncock someone would have talked,
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  Speaker 2: but was excluded from later versions of that book because
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  Speaker 2: it was so explosive. But regardless, I mean, the book
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  Speaker 2: is voluminous and it's a resource, and you know, especially
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  Speaker 2: for nineteen ninety seven. And even though I might disagree
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  Speaker 2: with some of the conclusions authors conclusions like you did,
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  Speaker 2: especially when it comes to maybe lbj or Jadarhova, it's
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  Speaker 2: probably in my top I'd say fifteen JFK books. It's
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed a lot. So I am going to go
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  Speaker 2: a little higher than you, Rob, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go eight guns up.
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  Speaker 1: Eight guns up from Joe six from me. That's no
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  Speaker 1: Twieman's bloody treason. And if you enjoyed that book review,
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  Speaker 1: being said, that is bloody treason by Noel Twyman and
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  Speaker 1: for Joe Borelli. I am Rob Clark and we are
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  Speaker 1: out until next time. Thank you, thank you, Good day, sir.