Final_Judgment

The Times quoted one Gerald Posner, the author of Case Closed, as an
authority on JFK conspiracies. The fact is that Posner has been widely
reviled by serious longtime JFK assassination researchers for having written
Case Closed which claims that the Warren Commission Report was correct
(despite some flaws) and that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
The cosmopolitan Mr. Posner was said to be "aghast" that the seminar
was scheduled and said "This strikes me as being similar to the notion that
the Holocaust was a hoax." This happens to be precisely the propaganda
line now promoted by the ADL which has said that if people believe there
was a conspiracy behind the JFK assassination, they might also end up
believing that there was no Holocaust.
ADL National Director Abe Foxman, writing in Antisemitism in
America Today: Outspoken Experts Explode the Myths, stated forthrightly:
"If segments of the population are really willing to believe that
President Kennedy was killed by the military-industrial complex because he
was too soft on Communism . . . then it is not hard to imagine some of these
same people falling for the lies of Bradley Smith or the fabrications of
Louis Farrakhan and Leonard Jeffries.
"All of these conspiracy theories share the core feature that the
`research' which supports them—little more, in fact, than a compendium of
anecdotes divorced from their original context—is rigged to arrive at
predetermined conclusions, not historical revelations or insights."
(The aforementioned Smith, by the way, promotes the view, held even
by so-called "mainstream" JFK assassination researcher Jim Marrs, that the
number of Jews who died in the Holocaust has been over-stated.
(Farrakhan and Jeffries, of course, are outspoken Black figures who
have documented a major Jewish role in the slave trade and have given the
ADL much distress.)
In short, if you believe in any JFK assassination conspiracy theory, you
might actually believe something else about another matter—such as the
Holocaust or the slave trade—that the ADL doesn't want you to believe.
But back to the ADL's friend, Posner. In fact, Posner's book is little
more than a rehash of the original Warren Commission Report
supplemented with an offensive mish-mash of virulent attacks on not only a
number of JFK investigators but also citizens who came forth with credible
evidence pointing toward a conspiracy behind the assassination of the
president. But just who is Posner anyway? Why has he emerged as a sort of
fair-haired boy for the ADL and the other critics of Final Judgment (and
JFK conspiracy theories in general)?
The aforementioned Jim Marrs, the author of Crossfire, a popular
compendium of JFK conspiracy theories, has been fiercely critical of Posner
and he's been pretty public in those criticisms and he has his own opinions
(worth citing) about where Posner is coming from.
In the fall 1995 issue of Paranoia magazine, an expose of Posner
reveals that Posner had privately admitted to Marrs that Bob Loomis, an
executive at Random House, had approached Posner asking him to write a