Final_Judgment

701 Final Word? [603]
books available from hundreds of publishers worldwide." The Amok review
of Final Judgment reads as follows in its entirety:
This book offers even the most grizzled
devotees of mayhem and mystery more than enough
meat to chew on. In this strange twist of events, the
focus shifts to Israel's role in the assassination of JFK.
The author walks the reader straight into the domain
of Meyer Lansky, Mickey Cohen, and the Mossad,
maintaining that Israel and its secret service had a
reason to be opposed to JFK; and that Israel's allies in
the mob and the CIA were, in turn, interacting with
one another and opposed to JFK; thus these forces
were allied together in the JFK conspiracy.
So although there are those who will continue to smear me and to
attack Final Judgment for their own purposes, there are a few brave souls
out there who are willing to say that the book has more merits than some of
my critics might be willing to admit. I appreciate that.
THE GARRISON SMEAR CONTINUES . . .
Since the release of Oliver Stone's JFK (which gave new life to
widespread public interest in JFK assassination conspiracy theories), there
has been a renewed effort to discredit all JFK assassination conspiracies
which point toward involvement by the CIA—and Jim Garrison's
investigation in particular.
The most notable book-length effort to discredit Garrison came with
the publication in 1998 of Patricia Lambert's False Witness which is largely
dedicated to the proposition that Jim Garrison was a reckless madman and
that Clay Shaw was just an innocent socialite who fell prey to a dangerous
demagogue.
Although there have been many notable critiques of Lambert's book,
the one published in The Baltimore Sun on March 14, 1999 by Joan
Mellen—the author of 12 books and a teacher in the creative writing
program of Temple University—summarizes Lambert's work best, saying
book "twists the facts, suppresses an enormous amount of material, and
offers so distorted a picture as to render it of scant historical merit." Ms.
Mellen also points out that although Lambert's book jacket describes her as a
"writer/editor" not a single book, magazine or newspaper article written by
Lambert is ever cited.
It would take another book to deal with many of Miss Lambert's
prevarications, but her most memorable is worth citing here. In her effort to
refute the fact that Clay Shaw was indeed a CIA asset, Lambert engaged in a
rather remarkable series of twists and turns on pages 204 and 205 of her book
to try and explain away the CIA's own records which document