Final_Judgment

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and to former Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker in the company of the late film actor
and war-hero, Audie Murphy (a mutual friend of Wean and Decker) and I
was pleased to be able to give Gary's book some additional publicity that it
would not have otherwise received.
Ironically, however, Gary has since suggested that Final Judgment is off
the mark because my book focuses on the Mossad and does not blame the
Jewish community in general for the JFK assassination. He has also attacked
me in various venues. I guess you can't please everybody.
The actual "birth" of the book, Final Judgment, I suppose actually took
place one evening when I sat down with a piece of paper and wrote down
eight or nine key phrases, among them: "JFK's Middle East policy,"
"Mossad," "Lansky," "The Mafia," a few key names. At that juncture I
began pulling a number of books off the shelf and began researching, then
and there, the suspicions that were evolving no longer in the back of my
mind but right there up front at long last.
I was actually surprised at what I came across. I was amazed when I
pulled Stephen Green's 1984 book Taking Sides: America's Secret
Relations With a Militant Israel off the shelf and discovered what a
goldmine it was. Ironically, I had read the book some seven years before
but it made no impression upon me at the time that Green pointed out—and
I think this is quite profound—that upon JFK's assassination U.S. Middle
East policy did an amazing 180-degree turnabout.
This hit me like a sledgehammer since I hadn't even turned to Green's
book until after my basic thesis for Final Judgment had begun to evolve.
This set me on a road of research that, frankly, as I moved forward, I was
amazed by the amount of factual detail pointing toward an Israeli
connection that I was uncovering in so-called "mainstream" sources.
I found also, quite ironically, that in my course of research I was not
necessarily relying heavily on JFK assassination-related books for many of
the details that ultimately appeared in Final Judgment. This in itself is
interesting, if only in that it highlights the fact that no JFK researchers had
ever made a serious inquiry into a possible Israeli role.
As I've said time and again, I'm willing to excuse many of the JFK
assassination researchers for their negligence if only for the reason that
there was very little public information until relatively recently (perhaps
beginning with Green's book, but certainly with the Hersh and Cockburn
books) about the very difficult relationship between Israel and JFK.
However, of course, I myself had overlooked it in reading Green's book.
Needless to say, there's all this literature about "The Mafia" being
behind the JFK assassination, etc etc, but as we'll see further (and as I've
pointed out in Final Judgment), you can't stop your research into Organized
Crime involvement when you come to Carlos Marcello, the Mafia boss of
New Orleans, and Santo Trafficante, the Mafia boss of Tampa.
You have to look further and that is toward Meyer Lansky. Looking at
Lansky brings you back to both American and Israeli intelligence. As I've
laid it out in Final Judgment you find that all of these aspects and