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JFK Book Review - The Final Truth By Ed Bauer · The Lone Gunman Podcast : JFK Assassination

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to JFK Book Reviews, a series by
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  Speaker 1: the Lone Gunman Podcast, which I do with my co
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  Speaker 1: host here, mister Rob Clark. Hello, and today we will
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  Speaker 1: be reviewing the book The Final Truth, Solving the Mystery
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  Speaker 1: of the JFK Assassination. This is by Edward J. Bauer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you could see it right there. Not super thick, but
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  Speaker 1: you can definitely smack it a little bit. It consists
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen chapters, but is preceded by a list of
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  Speaker 1: pre appendixes, if you will, of illustrations one of table's
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  Speaker 1: preface and intro. The mean Potatoes of the nineteen chapters
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  Speaker 1: is about two hundred and ten pages, and then there
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  Speaker 1: are four appendixes. First one being the translation of the
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  Speaker 1: Walker letter to Marina, which I know we've gone over
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  Speaker 1: on the show recently. Be a timeline sequence of the
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  Speaker 1: bullet from Main Street see Harold Weiersberg's for court cases
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  Speaker 1: against the FBI and the dealing with the Dallas Cinema Associates.
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  Speaker 1: Appendices are about eight pages long, and there's a pretty
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  Speaker 1: solid footnote section. It's about twenty five pages, also with
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  Speaker 1: a bibliography section and an index section as well.
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  Speaker 2: It is available on Kindle instantly for six ninety nine,
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  Speaker 2: on Amazon paperback new for twelve ninety five about thirteen bucks,
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  Speaker 2: and use copy start from about nine dollars. The author,
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  Speaker 2: Edward Bauer, has been researching the Kennedy assassination since the
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  Speaker 2: day it happened, but it would never have been solved
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  Speaker 2: without his hands on experience in rifle marketmanship and film editing.
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  Speaker 2: He has been writing for newspapers, radio, and television for
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  Speaker 2: forty years, including a university acclaimed video series of conflict simulations.
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  Speaker 2: He holds a master's from the Graduate School of Syracuse
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  Speaker 2: University and Ambascheldor's from a new House School of Public
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  Speaker 2: Communications at Syracuse University.
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  Speaker 1: So credibility seems okay. This is the only book he
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  Speaker 1: has written. And rob this book has a Loan Nutter.
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  Speaker 3: Lean to it. Yes, unfortunately it does, Joe, and this
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  Speaker 3: will be our first, I believe, our first loant book
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  Speaker 3: that we're going to be reviewing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Robert Oswalt's a kind of and kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of this is the first real, first real removed person
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  Speaker 3: from the case writing about it. Loan nut wise. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I was duped into buying this book, Joe, I was.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like a conspiracy book.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why I bought it. I mean, The Final
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  Speaker 3: Truth Solving the Mystery of the JFK Assassination breaks more
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  Speaker 3: new ground than any work of this tragedy, serious history,
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  Speaker 3: finally written correctly. You know, you figure this is a
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  Speaker 3: conspiracy book. But I got it and I started reading it,
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, hold on a minute, what is
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  Speaker 3: going on here? Now? You know the Warrant Commission got
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  Speaker 3: everything right, Joe, So why do you need to write
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  Speaker 3: a book called The Final Truth Solving the Mystery of
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  Speaker 3: the JFK Assassination when they already persecuted Lee Harvey Oswald
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  Speaker 3: as the lone assassin. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: And the more I started reading this book, because you know,
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  Speaker 3: I like to see where these guys are thinking from.
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  Speaker 3: And the author does spend a lot of time on
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  Speaker 3: Lee Harvey Oswald, his past and the shot sequence in
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  Speaker 3: Dealey Plaza. One of his big theories in this book, okay,
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  Speaker 3: was that Oswald was a scary good marksman, right, and
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  Speaker 3: that as he sat up there and he reassembled his
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  Speaker 3: rifle with a dime or whatever, his fingernail, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe his zipper. You know he was smart enough to
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  Speaker 3: realize that the rifles just not sighted in. Okay, So
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  Speaker 3: the first shot Joe was an intentional miss. He purposely
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  Speaker 3: fired towards the curve just to see how far off
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  Speaker 3: his scope was. And he was so scary good. You
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  Speaker 3: know that he immediately accounted for that, for that distance,
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  Speaker 3: you know that the.
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  Speaker 1: Scope was off right without actually adjusting the scope right.
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  Speaker 3: He just shot, you know, he looked through it shot
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  Speaker 3: and maybe it went you know, down to the left
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  Speaker 3: a little bit or up into the right a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: who knows. But he immediately corrected on a moving vehicle,
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  Speaker 3: a moving target moving away from him, and managed to
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  Speaker 3: account for that difference and successfully strike JFK twice in
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  Speaker 3: the back. Now, I don't know about all that. That
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  Speaker 3: sounds like a bunch of hog horse ship to me.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He does go into some of the medical evidence as well,
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  Speaker 3: not a lot, believe me. A lot of this stuff
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  Speaker 3: is spent with Oswald in mind. And you did mention
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  Speaker 3: Joe that there is a footnote section and unfortunately every
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  Speaker 3: every other footnote is Gerald Posner case closed. John mccadam's website,
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  Speaker 3: Dale Myers's website. You know, it's like loan nutter central right,
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  Speaker 3: So to me, if you're if you're footnoting another author's book,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, get the fuck out of here, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean? Yeah, do some real research, come up
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  Speaker 3: with some documents instead of parenting all these guys and
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  Speaker 3: just throwing your own opinion in. Now, I want to
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  Speaker 3: read a short piece of this because this guy is
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  Speaker 3: not just a lone nutter. He is a pompous asshole
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  Speaker 3: who thinks that you, the reader, is an idiot. If
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  Speaker 3: you believe in a conspiracy, listen to this Joe. Researchers, authorities,
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  Speaker 3: and students of this horrific event to which we are
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  Speaker 3: becoming inured but ought never be completely are divided into
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  Speaker 3: two camps, the loan nutters and the conspiracy theorists. The
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  Speaker 3: amicability of other hobbyists, say stamp collectors, has been replaced
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  Speaker 3: with unprecedented polarization, vituperation, and ad hominem attacks on a
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  Speaker 3: widespread scale. Now there's a fancy mix of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of big words that I will be perfectly honest with
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  Speaker 3: you and tell you that I don't know the meaning of.
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  Speaker 2: U.
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  Speaker 3: The polarization has left no middle ground. The loan nutters
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  Speaker 3: argue that Oswald acted alone from start to finish, and
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  Speaker 3: that Oswald assassin Jack Ruby acted alone from beginning to end.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody knew what anybody else was doing, and no compromise.
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  Speaker 3: The rest of you are kooks. The conspiracy theorists insists
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  Speaker 3: that there were several individuals large organizations involved throughout conspiracies
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  Speaker 3: before the shooting in Daly Plais itself and afterwards, conspiracies
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  Speaker 3: involving Parkland surgeons of Parkland Hospital, those conducting the autopsy
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  Speaker 3: of Betesda JD. Tippett, Jack Ruby, the CIA, the Mafia,
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  Speaker 3: the FBI, Fidel Castro, little Miss Muffett, and groups no
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  Speaker 3: one has ever heard of. Never going to change our minds.
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  Speaker 3: The rest of you are dupes. If there were some
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  Speaker 3: semblance of intelligent, rational, mature discussion here where everyone was
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  Speaker 3: pulling on the same rope, a middle ground might be reached.
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  Speaker 3: For example, it is possible that up to the instant
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  Speaker 3: President Kennedy was killed, there was no conspiracy. Oswald acting
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  Speaker 3: on his own was that lone nut and that is
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  Speaker 3: simply just that, But precisely at that moment Z three thirteen,
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  Speaker 3: that would be the headshot a conspiracy. Sprang Forth conspiracy
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  Speaker 3: to a silence Lee Harvey Oswald, thus denying him the
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  Speaker 3: platform to make wild accusations of it wasn't me, and
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  Speaker 3: to ensure a common faith in the stability of our
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  Speaker 3: system of government by convincing its citizens that only a
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  Speaker 3: single dranged loom that he could pull off such a crime,
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  Speaker 3: that conspiracy for the good of the country might have
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  Speaker 3: involved the Dallas Police Department, Dallas County Sheriff's Office, Jack Ruby, LBJ. Whitehouse,
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  Speaker 3: the Hoover, FBI, the Warrant Commission, and perhaps others. Most
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  Speaker 3: of it tacit unspoken but completely understood. This possible scenario
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  Speaker 3: is submitted as a middle ground starting point for a cordial,
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  Speaker 3: respectful back and forth discussion. No insistence is made that
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  Speaker 3: any of it is dogma. It is a merely part Loan, Nutter,
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  Speaker 3: part CT and after world we will buy each other
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  Speaker 3: a beer and then you can go fuck yourself. How
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  Speaker 3: about that? Edward Bower, I mean, what kind of shit
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  Speaker 3: is this? And then he's got a section at the
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  Speaker 3: end that he titles heroes. Okay, these people that he
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  Speaker 3: think are heroes in this story. One is all Officer JD. Tippin,
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  Speaker 3: One is Johnny Calvin, Brewer one is Gerald Ford. Listen
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  Speaker 3: to this shit? Gerald Ford? For fifteen years the sole
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  Speaker 3: surviving member of the Warrant Commission, until the publication of
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  Speaker 3: Gerald Posner's case closed in ninety three, his was virtually
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  Speaker 3: the only voice defending the single gum and point of view,
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  Speaker 3: reiterating that we got it right, besieds from all sides.
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  Speaker 3: It would have been easy for him to back off
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  Speaker 3: a bit, perhaps citing a lack of technology, but he
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  Speaker 3: stood up for the truth. And he also moves back
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  Speaker 3: wound down about five inches is from the neck to
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  Speaker 3: the back. Yeah, secret Service agent Clint Hill. Now I'll
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  Speaker 3: give him that. That's here, that's something he wrote, ship right,
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  Speaker 3: what he did, what Clint Hill did. And of course
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  Speaker 3: he mentions Jackie Kennedy being another hero. Well, she didn't
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  Speaker 3: do much other than you know, being the worst place
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  Speaker 3: at the worst time possible.
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  Speaker 1: We stood in defiance with with the dress full of blood.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, yeah, but I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I get accept that, okay, h m hmm.
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  Speaker 3: And like I said, excuse me, I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: to make of this book, Joe. I believe the author
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  Speaker 3: got a point, got I got his point across that
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  Speaker 3: all Loan nutters are any it's right, and it they
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  Speaker 3: got it right. It's a Warren commission except for a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things, right, some innocent mistakes here or there,
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  Speaker 3: and his whole new Shot theory. You know that Oswald
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  Speaker 3: was such a scary good marksman, and you know he
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  Speaker 3: put he picks and chooses and cherry picks his evidence
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  Speaker 3: all through the book, as all lone nutters do. And
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  Speaker 3: it's just a joke of a book. I'm glad this
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  Speaker 3: is the only book that Edward Bower ever decided to write.
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  Speaker 3: And if I could get my money back for this
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  Speaker 3: piece of ship, I would. That is how bitter I
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  Speaker 3: am about this book. Joe, I can see that, Uh,
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  Speaker 3: because I was duped into buying and thinking it was
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  Speaker 3: a conspiracy book.
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  Speaker 1: I bet you're not the only one who fell for that, right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's a good looking book. You know, it's
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  Speaker 3: got a nice color, nice color, you know, deal on
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  Speaker 3: a nice glossy and you know it's got all the
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  Speaker 3: ship on the back, the rifle, the pruder, campbell, the pistol,
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  Speaker 3: the motorcade picture.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's intentional for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, New Theories is what it says. The first thing
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  Speaker 3: on the back. But yet he puts forth and it
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  Speaker 3: puts forth in this book his own theories that are
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  Speaker 3: definitely w R O n G wrong wrong wrong. So Joe,
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  Speaker 3: with that being said, tell me how you felt about
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  Speaker 3: this book, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm I'm I'm in pretty much complete
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  Speaker 2: agreement with you.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is well written. I think he tries
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  Speaker 1: to make his points uh and makes them in a
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  Speaker 1: decent way, but I I agree.
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  Speaker 3: With almost all of them.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so uh in short, I am going to give
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  Speaker 1: this ah very low three guns up.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, well, let me disagree with you. I find
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  Speaker 3: nothing redeeming at all about this book. It's written from
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  Speaker 3: a standpoint of higher than down this as most loan
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  Speaker 3: numbers do. And uh, you know, making me look up
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  Speaker 3: words like viperturalism or whatever whatever crap is in here.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, picking on Harold Wiseberg for a pursuing
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  Speaker 3: his law law given rights to for your request things
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  Speaker 3: right and busting his balls about that is just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Harold Weisberg was a trailblazer in that sort
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  Speaker 3: of thing, and for him to just totally make him
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  Speaker 3: out to be a zealot is just beyond me, just
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  Speaker 3: beyond me. And like I said, I I couldn't find
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  Speaker 3: anything redeeming about this book. I learned absolutely nothing. I
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  Speaker 3: felt talked down to this entire book. I felt name
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  Speaker 3: called out reading this entire book, and I hated it,
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  Speaker 3: hated it, hated it. So with that being said, Rob,
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  Speaker 3: Big Bad Bob is going to give this piece of shit.
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  Speaker 3: It's very first one gun up, okay, and it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be this one to this here because I wasted
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  Speaker 3: my money on this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you.
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  Speaker 3: So with that being said, folks, that's the book. That's
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  Speaker 3: the review, The Final Truth Solving the Mystery of the
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  Speaker 3: JFK Assassination by Ed Bauer. Rip to that piece of crap.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks H.