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famous: “Notoriety…probably meant more to him than anything else on earth.
Truthfully, he had failed at life.” The author further opined that “Lee Harvey Oswald
may well be the first man in recorded history to have plunged the entire world into
mourning simply to become well-known by doing so.” 300 Throughout the book, Moore
recounted the evidence against Oswald, quibbled with some of the Warren Commission’s
conclusions regarding the shot sequence, claimed to have gained a fresh perspective of
the crime by recreating the “sniper’s lair” in the Texas School Book Depository building,
and added a somewhat laughable additional piece of evidence against Oswald.
According to Moore, Oswald indicated his guilt after the assassination by nervously
purchasing a Coca-Cola at the Book Depository soda machine rather than his usual Dr.
Pepper!
Investigative author Gerald Posner wrote a more persuasive case against Oswald
in Case Closed, published in 1992. Posner became the most prominent independent
defender of the Warren Commission in the 1990’s. He concluded "Lee Harvey Oswald,
driven by his own twisted and impenetrable furies, was the only assassin at Dealey Plaza
on November 22, 1963.” 301 Posner relied heavily on the Warren Commission testimony
to paint a portrait of Oswald as a violent, unstable person who was committed from an
early age to communism.
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Moore, 202-203.
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Gerald Posner, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, (New
York: Random House, 1993), 472.
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