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JFK Book Reviews - General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everybody, and welcome to JFK Book Reviews. I
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  Speaker 1: am Rob Clark and along with me is Joe BURRELLI
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  Speaker 1: As always, and today we will be reviewing the book
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  Speaker 1: General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy, the extensive
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  Speaker 1: new evidence of a radical right wing conspiracy by Jeffrey Cawfield, MD.
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  Speaker 1: That means he's a doctor and this is a thick boy, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: another one. Yeah, I could do curls with this bitch
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  Speaker 1: and like get buff, but we'll save that for another night.
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  Speaker 1: If you would just tell us about the book, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. While it was released in twenty fifteen by Morland Press,
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  Speaker 2: and the meat and potatoes of the book is about
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred and ninety pages. There is a document section
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  Speaker 2: which is about ten pages, and the ed no section
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  Speaker 2: is one hundred and forty pages which is very thorough extensive,
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  Speaker 2: and an index page as well. So you can get
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  Speaker 2: this book on Amazon hardcover for nineteen ninety five. And
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  Speaker 2: surprisingly the used versions are only twenty nine dollars on Amazon,
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  Speaker 2: but I saw on some other used book sites up
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  Speaker 2: to four hundred and fifty dollars. I guess that's the
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  Speaker 2: first edition, maybe signed, but Kindle for only nine ninety
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  Speaker 2: nine ten bucks. So Jeffrey Caulfield is a doctor, a
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  Speaker 2: medical doctor. He's an author and research best known for
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  Speaker 2: this book. I think this is his only book, actually,
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  Speaker 2: rob and he applied academic research methods to his work,
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  Speaker 2: utilizing public records, private correspondence, and declassified documents from the
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  Speaker 2: Freedom of Information Act. And he argues that the radical
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  Speaker 2: right conspiracy, driven by opposition to Kennedy's politices, particularly his
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  Speaker 2: Civil Rights Act, culminated in the assassination. And with that
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  Speaker 2: being said, it definitely has a conspiracy lean to it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll hand it off to you, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got that right. He also relied heavily on
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  Speaker 1: document collections that have been donated from a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these extreme right wingers to various universities or colleges throughout
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  Speaker 1: the country.
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  Speaker 2: And.
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  Speaker 1: Along the way he found a lot of interesting stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when you think about a conspiracy involving the extreme right wing,
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  Speaker 1: we're not talking about just some gun nuts who belonged
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  Speaker 1: to the John Birch Society, Okay, We're talking about Nazis.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about segregationists, States Rights party activists, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just not good people in their forward thinking of how
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  Speaker 1: or the direction that the country should be going. They
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  Speaker 1: were probably born in the wrong century, if you ask me,
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  Speaker 1: probably Joe. But this book itself does a great job
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  Speaker 1: of extensively examining all of the various players, all of
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  Speaker 1: the various organizations, because this kind of stuff, Joe was
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  Speaker 1: strung out all through the South, from Georgia to Florida,
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  Speaker 1: to Alabama, to Mississippi, Missouri, Louisiana, Texas, and even out
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  Speaker 1: to California. And there was a lot of high ranking
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  Speaker 1: folks like General Walker, like General Willoughby, like General Davallier,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of big money players like hl Hunt, Nelson,
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  Speaker 1: Bunker Hunt, Leander Perez in New Orleans, Kent Courtney. And
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  Speaker 1: when you look at a lot of this stuff and
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  Speaker 1: how they interconnected with each other, and even over to
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  Speaker 1: Joseph Miltier and Georgia, you know, he knew some things
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  Speaker 1: that he shouldn't really know. And the fact that he
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  Speaker 1: possibly could have been caught in a picture in Dealey
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  Speaker 1: Plaza in Dallas on November twenty second is interesting considering
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  Speaker 1: that he might have known ahead of time what was
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  Speaker 1: going to be going on. But Joe, let me read
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  Speaker 1: you an example, real quick short one of what's in
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  Speaker 1: this book and says Walker traveled to New Orleans and
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  Speaker 1: met with Kent Courtney, Leander Perez, and two employees of
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  Speaker 1: Guy Banister and associate's office just days before the assassination.
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  Speaker 1: And that is a true statement. General Wall Poker was
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans in the days before the assassination up
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  Speaker 1: until the morning of the assassination, meeting with big money
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  Speaker 1: players like Kent Courtney, Leander Perez, and two guys who
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  Speaker 1: are very close associates of Guy Banister. What were they
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  Speaker 1: meeting about? Why was Walker in New Orleans? You know this,
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  Speaker 1: this gives us a whole new perspective on how things
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  Speaker 1: could have shaken out in the summer of sixty three
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  Speaker 1: into the fall of sixty three, A possible link between
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans and Dallas, one of which the only one
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  Speaker 1: we've had, you know, tangible up to now is Lee
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  Speaker 1: Harvey Oswalt was in both places. But when you start
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  Speaker 1: to look at the players and their associations and who
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  Speaker 1: was around Lee Harvey Oswald at these different times, and
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Oz Wall was blamed for shooting at Walker,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it just gets crazy. It gets crazy, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, this book doesn't have very many pictures in it, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: very little, very few, no full page ones. So when
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  Speaker 1: we're talking, you know, almost eight hundred pages to the
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  Speaker 1: meat of this book. It is literally the meat of
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  Speaker 1: the book. But it has broken up very well into many, many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many chapters, some of which are just a page or
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  Speaker 1: too long, or sub chapters inside of chapters. And it's
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  Speaker 1: written very well, very easy to understand because it's a
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  Speaker 1: very complicated subject, and it also is chock full of
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  Speaker 1: information that we've never heard before like this. This is
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  Speaker 1: a letter to Billy James Hargas in nineteen sixty six,
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  Speaker 1: on December twenty eighth. Dear Billy, blah blah blah, just
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  Speaker 1: some pleasantries, it says. Another peculiarity with de Mornshield returning
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  Speaker 1: to Dallas from Haiti, as Rubinstein is allegedly dying with
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  Speaker 1: cancer in parentheses and might talk. De Mornshield made a
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  Speaker 1: front page spread and our informant produced his address in
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  Speaker 1: whom he is staying with not good a warning. When
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  Speaker 1: Rubinstein leaves the hospital in a box in parentheses, the
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  Speaker 1: only way he will he will come out. There is
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  Speaker 1: no further block to returning the blame to the right wing.
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  Speaker 1: The books and press will gradually pick it up again.
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  Speaker 1: H RFK must have it, it must be done as
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  Speaker 1: insurance and assurance and RFK political necessity, seemingly foreshadowing what
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  Speaker 1: was going to happen to JFK's brother RFK in the
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  Speaker 1: coming years. And also we have another letter to Tom.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who Tom is, but they speak of
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  Speaker 1: Marguerite Oswald being surveilled during the clay Shaw trial. It
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  Speaker 1: says missus m Oswald should never be underestimated. We watch
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  Speaker 1: her moves closely. I think the Onasis marriage proved one thing.
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  Speaker 1: She is a red. With the accusation of extremists on us,
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  Speaker 1: the free press out does us. So it's full of
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  Speaker 1: very interesting, eyebrow raising things that you must account for
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  Speaker 1: and must make sense of in the context the entire book. So,
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  Speaker 1: with that being said, Joe, give us your feelings on it, Bud.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. So you know, when I think about a rating
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  Speaker 2: for a book, I think about what value, what value
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  Speaker 2: hasn't added, And this book adds a lot of value.
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  Speaker 2: I'd say it's probably one of the best, if not
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  Speaker 2: the best books on the far right, and it provides
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  Speaker 2: a detailed examination of the radical rights subculture in the
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  Speaker 2: United States, particularly in Dallas, a hotbed of anti Kennedy segment.
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  Speaker 2: And like you mentioned, the correspondence, the interviews, one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and forty pages of sourcing. It's really well done, really
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  Speaker 2: well done. And even if you don't think the extreme
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  Speaker 2: right had a part of it, to rule them out,
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  Speaker 2: I think you need to read this book to fully
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  Speaker 2: comprehend their thoughts on President Kennedy. So in short, I
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  Speaker 2: am going to give this a very solid eight point
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  Speaker 2: five guns up. How about you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, this book is the first of its kind to
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  Speaker 1: implicate specifically General Walker in the murder of President Kennedy.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the first book to, however, implicate the extreme
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  Speaker 1: right wing in the murder of President Kennedy. It is
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  Speaker 1: one of a very few to do that, though, and
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  Speaker 1: it is the only one to have researched as extensively
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  Speaker 1: as I think humanly possible to ever do so. And
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  Speaker 1: there's very little room for speculation left in this book
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  Speaker 1: when you are faced with the facts of the evidence
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  Speaker 1: that Jeffrey Caffield brings forth in this book, A lot
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  Speaker 1: of it is undeniable, right, and that is hard to
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  Speaker 1: find in a Kennedy assassination book. Not only that is
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  Speaker 1: its unique subject matter. This is not your run of
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  Speaker 1: the mill Kennedy assassination book.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: He does address the events in Dealey Plaza briefly in
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  Speaker 1: this book, but again, the main focus this book is
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  Speaker 1: not Oswald per se. It is not what's going on
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  Speaker 1: in this school book depository. It's not who pulled the trigger.
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  Speaker 1: It's who could have possibly orchestrated this thing and pulled
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  Speaker 1: it off and why. And I think this book does
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  Speaker 1: an excellent job of answering those questions. So with that
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  Speaker 1: being said, Joe, I'm going to give this book my
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  Speaker 1: first ever ten out of ten. Bang bang bang bang
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  Speaker 1: bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang guns up, baby,
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  Speaker 1: because I love this book. From the minute I picked
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  Speaker 1: it up ten years ago, I could not put it
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  Speaker 1: down and I still use it as a resource to
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  Speaker 1: this very day when I need some go to information
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  Speaker 1: about some of these extreme right wingers, some of this
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans stuff. And it does a very excellent job
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  Speaker 1: of laying everything out in a very easy to understand
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  Speaker 1: way because it's a very complicated subject. So yeah, baby,
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  Speaker 1: first ten love it. So with that being said, folks,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see you there until next time. For Joe Borelli,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Rob Clark and we are out.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you everyone,