Final_Judgment

[390] Final Judgment 487
patriotic intelligence operative who stumbled across a plot to kill JFK and
sought to expose the plot. Quite an interesting book.
Dr. Charles Crenshaw's JFK: Conspiracy of Silence presents a firsthand
account of what the doctor saw in the emergency room in Dallas and
shows the "official" JFK autopsy reports to be garbage. Crenshaw took a lot
of heat for daring to come forth with his knowledge and he deserves quite a
bit of credit for having done so.
WAS IT REALLY A 'MORTAL ERROR'?
Another book that I must mention (because I have been asked about the
book on more than one occasion) is Mortal Error by Bonar Menninger. This
book contends that the fatal shot that killed the president was accidentally
fired by a Secret Service agent in the follow-up car behind the JFK
limousine. I have read the book and I will say right up front that it is not
akin to the outlandish, nonsensical story (believed with religious fervor by
some) that JFK was killed (deliberately) by a shot fired by his Secret Service
chauffeur. Instead, Menninger's book is well-written and thoroughlyresearched.
Anyone who read the book (and who had absolutely no other
knowledge about the JFK assassination whatsoever) might conclude that
this was indeed the "final judgment."
The thesis of the book is that somebody (probably Lee Harvey Oswald)
was firing at JFK with criminal intent from the Texas School Book
Depository, but that a Secret Service agent's weapon went off and finished
the incompetent Oswald's job.
There is at least one problem with this thesis: it's not likely that
Oswald fired a gun in Dealey Plaza that day and there is also legitimate
debate as to whether any shots were actually fired from the window where
Oswald allegedly fired. But if, per little chance, the thesis was right, it
doesn't essentially conflict with the overall general thesis of Final
Judgment, inasmuch as Final Judgment does contend that Oswald was in the
midst of circles within circles who were conspiring against the president and
trying to frame Oswald to make it appear as if he did fire from the book
depository. If indeed a shot was accidentally fired at JFK by the Secret
Service, it doesn't remove the fact that shot was fired in response to an
assassination attempt from elsewhere.
With all of this said, I have to suggest that no matter how sincere the
authors of the volume, the book is a wild distraction for serious students of
the JFK conspiracy. It's quite an inventive theory, but I don't think it has
much credibility, to be perfectly honest.
There's one more volume that I should mention. That is Kill Zone by
Craig Roberts. Although the book is a standard recounting of the basic facts
about the broad-ranging nature of the conspiracy against JFK, touching on
the standard players such as the CIA and the Mafia and even gets into the socalled
"French" connection (without going so far as to make the definite
Israeli linkage), the book is interesting and refreshing in that the author is
not fearful of bringing up the possibility that there were high-level