Final_Judgment

AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE
BY MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER
The title of this series of questions and answers on the JFK
assassination has a double meaning. On the one hand, it's a play on the title
of Final Judgment, with all due credit to Mark Lane whose Rush to
Judgment, was the first major work to explode the Warren Commission
Report. On the other hand, however, it is critical to understand precisely
what a "default judgment" is in order to appreciate the irony of the title: A
default judgment is what is issued in one's favor in a court of law when the
opposition fails to appear in court to defend itself against your allegations. I
believe that I have essentially won a default judgment in the JFK
assassination conspiracy case. Here's why:
In Final Judgment I believe that I painted a complete picture which
essentially tied all of the most commonly accepted JFK assassination
conspiracy theories together in a tightly knit format that explained how and
why the conspiracy to kill John F. Kennedy evolved and precisely who was
behind it. More than 25,000 copies of Final Judgment are now in
circulation throughout the United States (and around the world) yet not one
person has yet come forward to refute in any way any single fact relating to
my theory as it appears in Final Judgment.
So I do feel that I've won an un-contested "default judgment" in the
JFK case and that the basic thesis of the book has been confirmed, not only
because no one has been able to refute it, but, more importantly, because the
several lame attempts to refute the book have failed.
Now I'm trying to answer many of the questions and comments and a few
criticisms that have come to me from many, many readers. I'm pleased to
say that of several hundred cards, calls and letters that I received from readers
there was absolutely only one who said that they didn't like the book and
that person's complaint was that he said that he considered my writing
"sophomoric." But he didn't have any substantive criticism of the contents of
the book itself. Frankly, it seemed to me that the person just wanted to
complain.
One other individual, the very well known newspaper columnist Sam
Francis told somebody that although Final Judgment contained what he
called "much valuable information," that he still believed that Lee Harvey
Oswald acted alone in the JFK assassination. (I won't comment on that.)
All in all, I was pleased by the number of intriguing and thought-provoking
questions that were addressed to me by my readers. Often they had very
pointed questions, asking why I didn't make reference to some matter or
another or why I passed by some subject that they felt deserved further
discussion.
In Default Judgment, now being published in an updated and revised
format as a supplement to Final Judgment, many of the questions addressed
are just as they came directly to me from readers of Final Judgment. In
other instances we have combined a number of related inquiries coming