--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "seekliberation" <seekliberation@> > wrote: > > > > > According to a thoroughly documented book on Kennedy [JFK and the > > > Unspeakable], he was in the process of -ending- any military involvement > > > in Viet Nam when he was murdered. > > > > > Too bad Lyndon Johnson took over. I guess he and Kennedy didn't exactly > > see eye to eye. > > From the book review:
The do.rkflex meant to write, "From one of 66 reader reviews on Amazon." There are no editorial reviews from established publications, although the book has been out since April, which tells you something. Here's an excerpt from another reader review: "Of course there were many powerful individuals and organizations who stood to benefit from harder stance on the perceived communist threat of the time, but is there evidence to suggest that Kennedy was removed from office by a conspiracy that originated in the highest level of office. James Douglass thinks so - and why wouldn't he? He places JFK on a pedestal, lures the reader in to share his sentimentality on "what might have been" and in doing so cleverly dupes the reader into believing that such a great man could surely not have been killed by some deranged 24 year old nut case called Lee Harvey Oswald." The reviewer goes on at some length to demolish a good bit of the author's "thorough documentation." Another negative review, from a strong Warren Commission skeptic, states, "No critical mind familiar with the assassination literature could possibly regard this book as a contribution." This reviewer also calls a hunk of the "thorough documentation" into serious question. And one of the commenters on the review the do.rkflex quotes observes: "The last four or five Kennedy assassination books I've read respectively, comprehensively, and painstakingly proved that the CIA did it, Castro did it, the Mob did it, French drug dealers and right-wingers did it, etc. One book even "proved" pretty convincingly that the last shot was accidentally fired by a Secret Service agent. Oh, yet another had extraordinary evidence linking Oswald and Ruby to covert bio-weapons research and the creation of the AIDS virus." I haven't read the book and don't have an opinion one way or the other (although I'm also a Warren Commission skeptic). I just wanted to point out the absurdity--and deliberate attempt to mislead--of the do.rkflex quoting from an Amazon reader review of the book and calling it "THE review," as if it were definitive, as if there could be no other opinions.
