Final_Judgment

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described by liberal columnist Alexander Cockburn as "Israel's largest arms
dealer." However, more recently, Marrs has said some friendly things about
Final Judgment, although he's not endorsed it altogether.
I likewise sent a copy of the book to William Turner, who has been an
assassination investigator and the co-author of Deadly Secrets (formerly
titled The Fish is Red) which is about the joint CIA-Organized Crime plots
against Fidel Castro that seem to intersect with the JFK assassination
conspiracy. I also sent a copy of Final Judgment to Gaeton Fonzi, author of
The Last Investigation, who was an investigator for the House
Assassinations Committee inquiry into the JFK murder. I even pointed out
to Fonzi that he and I had at least one mutual acquaintance. However, I
never received an acknowledgment from either Turner or Fonzi.
Neither likewise have I heard from Jack Newfield of the New York Post
to whom I sent a copy of the book. Newfield's most recent claim to fame is
his story that Teamsters Union boss Jimmy Hoffa was behind the JFK
murder—a theory that got wide play. Newfield's "Hoffa Killed JFK" story
stemmed from his relationship with Frank Ragano, a former lawyer for
Hoffa and Santo Trafficante, the Tampa Mafia boss. I even challenged
Newfield to debate me on the subject on a national radio talk show, Radio
Free America, hosted by my colleague at The Spotlight, Tom Valentine.
I also sent a copy of my book to David Scheim, author of Contract on
America, that contends the "The Mafia Killed JFK." Scheim's book, in my
opinion as an author and editor with an eye for these things, is nothing more
than an enriched, expanded re-write of the book The Plot to Kill the
President by G. Robert Blakey who was director of the House
Assassinations Committee investigation and who, in that capacity, was
determined not to find any CIA or FBI or intelligence community
involvement in the murder of the president.
As I pointed out in Final Judgment, Scheim tended to portray Meyer
Lansky as an insignificant figure who was a low-level mob figure, a flunky
to the Mafia, when, in fact, obviously, he was much bigger than that. Scheim—
dare I say it?—is Jewish and it could well be that this may have been some
element in his bias. Nonetheless, whatever his bias, Scheim does have some
credibility in some circles. Still, he has never acknowledged receipt of the
book nor has he agreed to debate me as I asked.
If my theory is so obviously ridiculous, I would think that Scheim
would relish the opportunity to demolish the theory, not only because he
believes that "The Mafia Killed JFK" but because, as a Jewish American
(and perhaps a devotee of Israel), he would have the chance to refute the
claim that the Jewish state had a hand in the assassination. I would think
that he would take this golden opportunity to demolish me publicly. But
Scheim never took me up on the offer to debate.
A good friend of mine, Donald L. Kimball, has written three books on
the JFK assassination. He's a prolific writer and a dedicated American, but
to the best of my knowledge he has never even read Final Judgment. But
I've learned that Don dismissed Final Judgment out of hand after he heard
about the release of the book saying, "Oh, well, Mike gets into all that stuff