Final_Judgment

[506] Final Judgment 602
Another important thing to consider in relation to all this is that JFK
assassination research has (and continues to be) a remarkably and
particularly incestuous field. People were relying upon others' research and
re-writing and re-hashing the information to the point that no real new
ground was being broken.
As an aside, I have to say that after Mark Lane came out with Rush to
Judgment, most of the books on the JFK assassination (with a few notable
exceptions) have essentially rehashed the initial material that Mark
uncovered. He laid the groundwork for and publicized and popularized the
national and international body of opinion that there was another story that
needed to be told: that the Warren Commission Report was a fraud and that
Lee Harvey Oswald was not "one lone nut," by any means.
Suffice it to say that Rush to Judgment laid the groundwork for all
future efforts. However, if future "researchers" had investigated further, a
book similar to Final Judgment might have been written a year or two after
Rush to Judgment came forth. As it stands, that wasn't the case and the
whole controversial project had to land in my lap.
Did you have any secret sources that you can't name?
No, I didn't have any "secret sources," per se. Most of the material that I
used in the preparation of Final Judgment was essentially in the public domain
insofar as it was all published—all material that had appeared in popular
magazines, books distributed by eminent publishing houses that are household
names, etc. Everything is carefully documented and there were a total of 746
footnotes in the third edition alone (up from 677 footnotes in the previous
editions). Now, of course, this fourth edition is substantially expanded and even
more thoroughly documented.
Frankly, the only "non-Establishment" source used in the writing of
Final Judgment was the material put together by the LaRouche
organization's Executive Intelligence Review. Now most of this material
related to the secretive Permindex organization, but, in fact, much of that
material itself was a rehash of material that had originally appeared in Paris
Flammonde's The Kennedy Conspiracy (which, itself, had relied upon
foreign press reports relating to Permindex).
So there was nothing "out of the ordinary" that I used—no "right wing"
or "left wing" extremist literature (however defined). I used no "anti-
Semitic" sources either. Even those sources that were critical of Israel could
hardly be called "anti-Semitic," particularly the works by Stephen Green
and Seymour Hersh who are both respected authors who do happen
themselves to be Jewish.
My sources were not "alternative press" or "offbeat" either. All the
primary material on all the key points in Final Judgment came from
"respectable" and "mainstream" and "responsible" sources.
The one "secret source" that I did rely upon was a former French
intelligence officer, Pierre Neuville, whose name I had kept under wraps
until this, the fifth edition of Final Judgment.