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THE 'OFFICIAL' HISTORY
For those who want to have a good perspective on the "official" history
of the JFK assassination—conspiracy theories notwithstanding—they
should first read the books, The Death of a President, by William
Manchester, and The Day Kennedy Was Shot, by Jim Bishop.
Although both authors accept the basic conclusions of the Warren
Commission, the volumes do provide a good historical background and
overview of the assassination and the immediate events that followed.
It's important for people to read these books to become familiar with
the subject. It wouldn't hurt to even read the Warren Commission Report or
the hard-to-find multiple volumes of exhibits that were issued along with
the report.
MARK LANE
Obviously, Rush to Judgment, by Mark Lane, was the first major book
to expose the Warren Report's claim that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone
assassin for the outrageous fraud that it was. And although the book is now
nearly 30 years old, it still remains the single book that anyone must read if
they wish to understand why people began to doubt the Warren Report.
This book sparked the explosion of research into the JFK assassination
that led, in the end, to my own writing of Final Judgment. It was, after all,
Rush to Judgment, that led Jim Garrison into his monumental investigation
that I believe that came as close to anything in revealing the truth about the
JFK assassination.
Mark Lane also wrote a book called A Citizen's Dissent that appeared
in 1975—several years after Rush to Judgment—but unfortunately this
volume is not one that many people are familiar with.
I've told Mark myself that I think this book is even better than Rush to
Judgment, for several reasons. First of all, because it came out later and
incorporates many of Mark's new findings in the wake of Rush to
Judgment.
Secondly, and more importantly, it's highly significant in that in this
second book Mark delves into the aspect of how the media treated his
inquiries into the JFK assassination and how the FBI and the CIA and the
rest of the Establishment responded.
Although the book is hard to find, I would suggest that anyone who
wants a startling perspective on how the government responded to what
Mark called "a citizen's dissent" read this volume.
Mark Lane's final volume on the JFK assassination, Plausible Denial,
which I've already discussed at length in these pages, represents in many
ways Mark's own unique long-term perspective and sets the stage, I believe,
for Final Judgment.
In many ways, Final Judgment is perhaps a sequel to Plausible
Denial—or so it has been suggested.