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  Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome into JFK Book Reviews, a division
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  Speaker 1: of the Lone Coome and Podcast. And this week we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be talking about Oswald in New Orleans, a
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  Speaker 1: case for conspiracy with the CIA by none other than
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  Speaker 1: the legendary author himself, Harold Wiseberg. That is him, over shit,
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  Speaker 1: How do I point bad way right there? That's him
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  Speaker 1: Harold Weisberg. Yes, WALTA. This book is pretty thick, folks.
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  Speaker 1: It's about four hundred and forty four pages. This is
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  Speaker 1: actually a reprint from twenty thirteen for the fiftieth anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: It was originally published in nineteen sixty seven, okay in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, and it came about as a result.
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  Speaker 1: At that time Harold Weisberger had already written Whitewash one
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  Speaker 1: and Whitewash two. This was his third book because he
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  Speaker 1: got drawn into the Garrison investigation down in New Orleans
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  Speaker 1: and helping out with that. And as any great journalist knows,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you're around something like that, you might
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  Speaker 1: as well take advantage of it for your own purposes
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  Speaker 1: as well. And you know, not just work for somebody
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  Speaker 1: else and do all the work for them, but also
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  Speaker 1: benefit yourself as well, which he did. He compiled his
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  Speaker 1: findings and his experiences in New Orleans into this book
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  Speaker 1: at the time that the Garrison investigation was going on again.
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  Speaker 1: The trial of clay Shaw wasn't concluded until nineteen sixty nine,
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  Speaker 1: and this book was published in sixty seven. But Wiseberg
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  Speaker 1: was instrumental in locating, tracking down, and interviewing some very
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  Speaker 1: important witnesses for Jim Garrison. And I'm talking about folks
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  Speaker 1: like Orspana and not just that. His brother, oddly enough,
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  Speaker 1: lived in Louisiana at the time, and David Ferry had
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  Speaker 1: gone to him about his skin condition, right, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the alopecia, and apparently he'd started some treatments and Ferry
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  Speaker 1: was starting to grow some peach fuzz back in some
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  Speaker 1: bald spots. But eventually he stopped going to the doctor
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  Speaker 1: to get the treatments and his disease alopecia, developed into
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  Speaker 1: alopecia to talus and there was no coming back from it.
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  Speaker 1: That is, all your hair goes by bye everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere, if you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I don't know what it is with some of these,
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  Speaker 1: some of these books, but on Amazon, this damn book
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  Speaker 1: is two hundred and eighty dollars folks, two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty bucks. So and I pulled up Amazon and it
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  Speaker 1: says that I purchased it on September fifteenth, twenty thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: So I got it.
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  Speaker 2: Almost thirteen years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, this has been right around the fiftieth anniversary
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  Speaker 1: when this book was republished. I'm glad I got it
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  Speaker 1: back then. It's got fifteen chapters in it and it
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  Speaker 1: mainly deals with the goings on with Oswald and the
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  Speaker 1: people that he was supposedly associated with in the summer
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty three when he went back to New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: mainly from April sixty three through August of sixty three.
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  Speaker 1: And it does go a lot in here in this
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  Speaker 1: book about the Cuban exiles.
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  Speaker 2: Again, Wisburg would.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to interview a lot of them. He talked
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  Speaker 1: to people like Paynia or Espaynia, Carlos Bregnier, Dean Andrews,
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  Speaker 1: David Ferry, well, I mean not David Ferry. David Ferry
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  Speaker 1: was dead, but he talked to people who had met
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  Speaker 1: and dealt with David Ferry, Lauren Hall. He talks about
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  Speaker 1: Guy Banister, Clay Shaw, references to a false All's Wald,
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  Speaker 1: possibly Carrie Thornley. And the basic thesis of the book
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  Speaker 1: is is.
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  Speaker 2: Because you know, you have to remember.
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  Speaker 1: The sub subtitle is a case for conspiracy went to CIA.
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  Speaker 2: So he does.
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  Speaker 1: Go in to try to connect a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: folks in New Orleans as either working with or for
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  Speaker 1: the CIA, including Oswald. The forward to this book is
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  Speaker 1: written by Jim Garrison. Of course, why wouldn't it be.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a while since I've read it. I
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  Speaker 1: read it when I first got it. It was an
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  Speaker 1: excellent book. I could barely put it down. But I
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  Speaker 1: think at the time a lot of it was so
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  Speaker 1: in the weeds that it went a lot of it
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  Speaker 1: went over my head. Now this is before you know,
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  Speaker 1: Wiseberg was really adept at obtaining government records and for
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  Speaker 1: your requests and things of this nature. That would he
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  Speaker 1: would really develop and flourish that skill in the seventies.
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  Speaker 1: So this is more boots on the ground type stuff,
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  Speaker 1: clandestine meetings and noisy restaurants and hotel rooms and phone
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  Speaker 1: calls and just all kinds of crazy stuff, all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of crazy stuff. But he did manage, you know, to
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  Speaker 1: talk to a lot of these players. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: even talks about William Seymour, you know, Lauren Hall and
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  Speaker 1: folks like that, way before.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Garrison even called.
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  Speaker 1: Them, you know, for the trial or to talk to him.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is going off of some random obscure
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  Speaker 1: you know, FBI reports that didn't even make it into
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  Speaker 1: the Warrant Commission report. So very interesting, very interesting. He
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  Speaker 1: goes into the idea of who who, who visited Sylvia Odio,
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  Speaker 1: you know, was the government trying to sabotage the Garrison investigation.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these questions and themes are visited in
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  Speaker 1: this book, you know, very much earlier than they ever
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  Speaker 1: were by anybody else. He goes into his leafletting, his
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  Speaker 1: h the fractas with Bregner and all of that, his
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  Speaker 1: televised debate, and of course something we've been talking about
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  Speaker 1: on the show. He recently has fair Play for Cuba
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  Speaker 1: Committee materials and Dean Andrews, the lawyer who claimed Clay
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  Speaker 1: Bertrand called him after the assassination asking him to represent
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  Speaker 1: Oswald in Dallas. Carlos Brgnier and the anti Castro Cubans
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  Speaker 1: interactions that Weisberg views as potentially staged or infiltrative. This
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  Speaker 1: is of course, where the infamous narrative comes from, that
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  Speaker 1: this whole thing was staged because as we know, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that he knew back then that the
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  Speaker 1: CIA was funding the DRE and these other anti cast
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  Speaker 1: Castro exile groups. But also you had people like Orist
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  Speaker 1: Payment telling him about Warren Debrize and how the FBI
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  Speaker 1: was was talking to and keeping tabs on what was
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  Speaker 1: going on down there in New Orleans, things that they
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  Speaker 1: would later deny. So this whole thing is, uh, there's
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  Speaker 1: a tone to it, if you will, a fancy Wiseberg tone.
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  Speaker 1: Now I want to read you something here about Harold
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  Speaker 1: Wiseburg because it lets you in, it gives you a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of insight as to who he was, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know the history. So but
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  Speaker 1: Harold Weisberg was born in Philadelphia in nineteen thirteen. His
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  Speaker 1: parents were Jewish immigrants from Roumania. His mother was Sarah
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  Speaker 1: Spiegel and she was from Bessarabia. His father, Fred Wiseberg,
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  Speaker 1: was from Moldavia. His mother was eight when she first
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  Speaker 1: came to the US, and his father was a young
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  Speaker 1: man when he arrived and earned enough money at his
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  Speaker 1: store to send for his brother. By nineteen oh six,
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  Speaker 1: they were able to pay passage across the Atlantic for
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  Speaker 1: the rest of their families, and Harold had two sisters.
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  Speaker 1: His family lived on Ople Street in Philadelphia. It was
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  Speaker 1: an immigrant, working class neighborhood. His father and uncle were
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  Speaker 1: both grocers and urban little mom and pop grocery stores.
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  Speaker 1: He said that his mother couldn't or wouldn't speak of
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  Speaker 1: life in the old Country, and his father had little
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  Speaker 1: good to say for it. Harold's grandmother talked about the pogrom,
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  Speaker 1: the pograms, and oppression of the Russian overlords. She lived
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  Speaker 1: into her eighties and always said that.
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  Speaker 2: The tsarre knew what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: Even in the stettles of Romania, the people feared the
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  Speaker 1: marauding Cossacks who ransacked their homes and slaughtered their babies.
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  Speaker 1: The grandmother had escaped one pilgrim with two children, Harold's
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  Speaker 1: mother and her oldest brother. Another brother had been killed,
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  Speaker 1: which would have been Harold's uncle. He says, I'm the
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  Speaker 1: first member of my family born into freedom. To simplify it,
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  Speaker 1: Harold asserted, and I think no matter how far back
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  Speaker 1: you go into antiquity, if you go back to Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: That's got to be true. It is not easy for
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  Speaker 1: people people either to appreciate or understand his memories of
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia boyhood. As soon as he could get his bearings,
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  Speaker 1: he was a solo adventurer. He recalls going to primary
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  Speaker 1: school on Susquehanna Avenue and the street cars where blessing
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  Speaker 1: on the broad Avenues. Harold was a walker in the
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  Speaker 1: city even as a small boy. His home was three
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  Speaker 1: blocks south of the old Philadelphia Ballpark, then known as
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  Speaker 1: Shyde Park Stadium and later the Connie Mack Stadium. Five
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  Speaker 1: blocks to the northeast was Bakerfield, where the Phillies played.
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  Speaker 1: Near Shyde Park was a gully excavated for the Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 1: Railroad tracks the main line headed north for New York.
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  Speaker 1: He was a boy in the area of Transition, when
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  Speaker 1: horse drawn wagons still hauled loads and fine ladies drove
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  Speaker 1: battery powered to electric cars, which they're starting to do
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  Speaker 1: again over one hundred years later. Don't you love progression.
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  Speaker 1: When he was in Philadelphia, he first learned of radio.
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  Speaker 1: A family on Ople Street managed to afford a crystal
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  Speaker 1: cest a luxury and a working class neighborhood. They heard
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  Speaker 1: on the air that Warren G. Harding had won the
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  Speaker 1: presidential election of the day before, and the news was
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  Speaker 1: hollowed all over the tiny street. So you know, you
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  Speaker 1: can imagine how his life and his past kind of
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  Speaker 1: shaped him moving into the future. He ended up going
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  Speaker 1: to the University of Delaware. As a young man, he
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  Speaker 1: was offered a job in the information office of the
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  Speaker 1: US Department of Agriculture, but the slot was a disappointment
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  Speaker 1: when he realized he was a little more than a
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  Speaker 1: file clerk. He felt as if the agency chose to
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  Speaker 1: forget about him on the level of fourteen hundred dollars
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  Speaker 1: or fourteen hundred and forty dollars a year, and he
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  Speaker 1: needed an eye operation badly, but couldn't take leaf from work,
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  Speaker 1: so he quit in discussed. The government soon placed him
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  Speaker 1: as an administrative assistant to Farm Security Administration, and in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen thirty six, the agency loaned him to Congress, where
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  Speaker 1: he became an investigator for the Senate Civil Liberties Committee
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  Speaker 1: Subcommittee on Education in Labor and remained there until nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine. In the in the era before xerox copy,
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  Speaker 1: senators on investigative bodies worked from legal size folders called briefs.
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  Speaker 1: On the right hand side of a folder were the
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  Speaker 1: questions that Harold and other investigators prepared for senators to ask.
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  Speaker 1: On the left hand side restored the exhibits. All this
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  Speaker 1: material was typed in carbon copies. In nineteen thirty seven,
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  Speaker 1: Harold was investigating a major auto manufacturer for alleged use
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  Speaker 1: of spies within the labor unions. All of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: his exhibits disappeared and were not there. Some records subpoenaed
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  Speaker 1: by the subcommittee seemed no longer to exist, and the
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  Speaker 1: hearing it transpired that the corporate attorney had destroyed the records. Personally,
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  Speaker 1: this maneuver put the lawyer in very goodstead with his
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  Speaker 1: client firm, and Harold had a cold stare at corrupt
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  Speaker 1: practice among the mighty and the rewards reaped by the manipulators,
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  Speaker 1: scoundrels and snickering engineers of individious acts.
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  Speaker 2: So you can see how this all kind of went
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  Speaker 2: down here.
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  Speaker 1: And how he got a little disillusioned with things. But
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  Speaker 1: let me back up a little bit, because this story
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  Speaker 1: is very interesting Harold Weisberg, and they really tell the story.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever wrote this was pretty good at their job. Adamstown, Hyattstown,
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  Speaker 1: Shooks Towns, Sugar Loaf Mountain, quiet and still and green.
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  Speaker 1: If you can get lost out there, you can hide
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, or retreat from the mayhem of the nation's capital.
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  Speaker 1: This is Frederick, Maryland, where Holstein's Gray's in the fields
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  Speaker 1: and peeri over fences at infrequent automobiles. Mostly farmers live
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  Speaker 1: on the western Maryland hillocks, but spies retire here and
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  Speaker 1: write books. And super Feds who burned themselves out, tipped
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  Speaker 1: their whiskey and told themselves their work was done. But
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  Speaker 1: you can sense a secret industry in that woodland on
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  Speaker 1: the way to rural Pennsylvania. Official Washington doesn't like it,
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  Speaker 1: and so it exists. One of its mavens is Harold Weisberg,
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  Speaker 1: a hero of the fracas of the nineteen sixties. No
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  Speaker 1: better investigator ever haunted the gunmetal gray buildings of Official Washington,
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  Speaker 1: or stairs down federal judges, or brushed off gumshoes from
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  Speaker 1: the FBI and CIA. He was the first to write
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  Speaker 1: and publish a book, later a series exposing the criminal
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  Speaker 1: cover up of the John F. Kennedy murder and the
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  Speaker 1: horrors that followed. Weisberg owns a big spread of woods
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  Speaker 1: just off.
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  Speaker 2: A mountain road.
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  Speaker 1: A long driveway burrows up through the tree cover to
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  Speaker 1: his ranch type house. From outside the place, it seems
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  Speaker 1: deposited by a cyclone like Dorothy's. Down to oz front
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  Speaker 1: and back. Wild creatures frolcking the tall grass, brazen and
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  Speaker 1: fearless tit mouses, blue jays, cardinals, chickadees, purple fence wren, chipmunks,
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  Speaker 1: rabbit day lilies, tiger lilies, and red squirrels. I saw
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  Speaker 1: him in pears. If a red squirrel could rear his
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  Speaker 1: head unabashed anywhere, it would be in the Wiseberg's yard.
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  Speaker 1: Harold and his wife Lil have lived in this eden
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  Speaker 1: since October one, nineteen sixty seven, a retirement home, they
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  Speaker 1: call it. Before where that they were farmers on fourteen
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  Speaker 1: acres in nearby Hydestown, Maryland. They raised chickens of all
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  Speaker 1: types and mostly other waterfowl like ducks and geese, no crops.
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  Speaker 1: Weisberg sold the farm when he resumed his career as
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  Speaker 1: an investigative writer. He'd done it all before, only the
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  Speaker 1: mysteries and their consequences were new and more terrible. Today,
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  Speaker 1: he's accepted genarian with thrombosis. In his legs. He takes
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  Speaker 1: anti coagulants. He can't get very comfortable in most chairs,
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  Speaker 1: but sometimes scales the ladder against doctors rules to putter
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  Speaker 1: in his garden. His sight in one eye has been
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  Speaker 1: poor since birth. In the basement of his Frederick Holme
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  Speaker 1: is a double row of foule cabinets. Those drawers and
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  Speaker 1: bins contained records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
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  Speaker 1: On the far wall or some thirty more foul cabinets.
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  Speaker 1: An additional dozen are against another wall. Harold's office are
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  Speaker 1: boxes of more four yer records, plus records of lawsuits
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  Speaker 1: to obtain those documents. Harold Weisberg has declared in print
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  Speaker 1: that he has probably filed suit in federal court under
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  Speaker 1: the Foyer to obtain declassified, restricted, and otherwise sensitive information
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  Speaker 1: more than any other US citizen. Ever, that's an accomplishment, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: so he's good at it. The irony is that his
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  Speaker 1: basement is a vault of volatile debris that remained unused
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  Speaker 1: when his frail health slammed the brakes on his writing
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  Speaker 1: in the late seventies. His wife can still descend their steps, though,
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  Speaker 1: and so can the young graduate students who research their
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  Speaker 1: own papers down in his cellar.
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  Speaker 2: That's not creepy at all, is uh.
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  Speaker 1: He allows access to almost anyone and rarely, if ever questions.
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  Speaker 1: The motives of the curious copying machines are there too.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody can copy anything. If you don't practice what you
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  Speaker 1: pre you're not much.
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  Speaker 2: Of a person. He remarked to me.
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  Speaker 1: And here is a fantastic Wiseburg quote for you. If
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  Speaker 1: you believe in freedom of information, it can't be only
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: This is why Harold Wiseberg decided to share his findings
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  Speaker 1: and the things that he obtained from for your requests
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  Speaker 1: with the world, with graduate students, in books, anybody that
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  Speaker 1: expressed an interest that wrote him a letter, Hey I
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  Speaker 1: need this, Hey do you have that? And he would
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  Speaker 1: send poor lil down the steps to see or he'd
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  Speaker 1: have to wait till somebody came over and send them
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  Speaker 1: down the basement. But a lot of his files would
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  Speaker 1: end up walking out of that basement, probably tucked in
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  Speaker 1: the back of some trousers, if you.
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  Speaker 2: Will, for some various people.
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  Speaker 1: He had all kinds of people visiting him, including Lauren
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  Speaker 1: Hall and Jerry Hemming for at times. So and there's
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  Speaker 1: some crazy things that still exist in the Wisburg Archives
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  Speaker 1: about both of those fellas so.
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  Speaker 2: And who knows.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this poor guy was under all kinds of hardships,
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  Speaker 1: hard eggs, health problems, financial trouble, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, you name it. Man. They were really putting it
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  Speaker 2: to the guy.
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  Speaker 1: But he hung in there, and he did his due diligence,
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  Speaker 1: and he stayed the course, and he wrote and he
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  Speaker 1: wrote and he wrote. But this book, Oswald in New Orleans,
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  Speaker 1: was one of the first, one of the first, and
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  Speaker 1: it remains an important part of the literary history of
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  Speaker 1: the ken Any case. And while everything in this book is,
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  Speaker 1: of course not one hundred percent accurate, it's four years
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  Speaker 1: removed from the actual assassination itself, from a guy who
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  Speaker 1: was actually boots on the ground in New Orleans, talking
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  Speaker 1: to the sources themselves, getting things right out of the
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  Speaker 1: horse's mouth, asking the hard questions that the Warrant Commission
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  Speaker 1: didn't ask certain people if at all. So for that
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  Speaker 1: reason and that reason alone, this book, to me is
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  Speaker 1: a very valuable piece of my library. And it's important
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  Speaker 1: if you're a serious researcher in the case, to read
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  Speaker 1: this book and take it for what it is at
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  Speaker 1: face value. Can we believe everything in here I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but Harold Weisberg serves it up cold and on a
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  Speaker 1: plate to you to take. He doesn't partake in speculation
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  Speaker 1: and any window and suppositions. That's just Wiseberg's style. He
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  Speaker 1: gives you the goods. He gives you exactly what people say. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: what do you call No flourishments, no flowers, no seasoning.
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Take it or leave it, folks. But it's still invaluable.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can find it anywhere other than Amazon
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  Speaker 1: for two hundred and eighty dollars, I suggest you pick
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  Speaker 1: it the hell up as quickly as possible, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So with that being said, I've got to give this
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  Speaker 1: book for what it is, from when it's from, from
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  Speaker 1: what's in it, and how it holds up throughout the years.
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  Speaker 2: I got to give this.
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  Speaker 1: Book probably a solid seven out of ten, seven out
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  Speaker 1: of ten. Guns up, baby, It's good for what it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's good. It's not some.
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  Speaker 1: Huge revelatory tone, you know what I'm saying. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: back in the day this thing would have been invaluable.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking about being published four years after
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  Speaker 1: the assassination, when people still had a lot of questions
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  Speaker 1: about Lee, Harvey Oswald.
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  Speaker 2: And what was going on in New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: And this is prime or just as the Garrison investigation
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