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486 The Battle of the Books [389]
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) office in New Orleans that was tied to Guy
Banister. They also owned WDSU radio and television that helped portray
Lee Harvey Oswald as a "pro-Castro agitator."
Those are the major books on the Garrison case. Had Garrison's inquiry
not been sabotaged so repeatedly and relentlessly, it may have ultimately
unearthed the truth about the JFK assassination long before Final Judgment
was ever released. I strongly suggest that people focus, focus, focus on the
Garrison investigation. By getting to the bottom of what Clay Shaw and
Guy Banister and David Ferrie were up to in New Orleans involving Lee
Harvey Oswald we will be able to come a little bit closer to knowing more
of the truth about the JFK assassination.
THE 'OFFBEAT' VOLUMES
The next series of books in JFK assassination lore are the ones that
might be described, for want of a better term, as those of an "offbeat" nature.
There are many such volumes, but I want to focus on a handful.
One that comes immediately to mind is The Assassination Tapes by
former CIA analyst George O'Toole. The book describes O'Toole's use of
voice stress analysis to determine whether key witnesses in the JFK case
(whose voices were taped at one time or another) lied. He concludes that
Oswald did not lie when he denied having killed the president and also that
some of the Dallas police officers on the case may not have been telling the
truth either.
As a former CIA man, O'Toole has a certain bias in that he seems to
suggest that the FBI might have been somehow culpable in the JFK
assassination cover-up (which few frankly doubt), but all in all the book is
worth reading and people will find it entertaining.
David Lifton's much-discussed Best Evidence contends that there were
post-death alterations made of President Kennedy's wounds even prior to the
official autopsy back in Washington. This book is a ponderous volume and
quite detailed but I must say that it is so overwhelming that one becomes
lost. Much of the technical evidence is beyond the comprehension of the
average reader and because of that, I'm afraid, the book doesn't make a major
contribution other than to confuse the JFK assassination controversy even
further.
A very particularly interesting first-hand account is Flashback by Ron
Lewis. A man with a rather checkered background, Lewis was associated
with Lee Harvey Oswald through Guy Banister's CIA contract operation in
New Orleans. A few people question Lewis's credentials, but his book does
provide an account of Oswald's association with Banister from a unique
first-hand perspective. I couldn't find anything in Lewis' book that conflicted
in any way with my own findings in Final Judgment regarding the strange
activities conducted out of Banister's office. It's a hard-to-find book, but one
worth reading.
Another little-known volume that's quite unique is The Second Plot by
an English writer, Matthew Smith, who portrays Lee Harvey Oswald as a