Final_Judgment

611 Questions & Answers [515]
Someone once described Final Judgment as a "sequel" to Plausible
Denial and I would like to think that this is an accurate description. But you
can't make a serious study of the JFK assassination without having read
Plausible Denial.
What have the media reviewers said about Final Judgment?
With the exception of the frenzied media coverage that I've discussed
in the introduction as of January 1998 there have not been any formal
reviews of any kind of Final Judgment in the major "mainstream" media,
although there have been a handful of reviews such as these:
The first review appeared in my own national weekly newspaper, The
Spotlight, and it probably won't surprise anyone to learn that the review was
quite laudatory. I am pleased to say, however, that the review in question
was unsolicited and was submitted by none other than Eustace Mullins, one
of the most respected and most prolific writers and researchers in the
populist movement in America. The second review of Final Judgment
appeared in the Washington Jewish Week on April 28, 1994 and is discussed
in Final Judgment in the afterword.
The third review appeared in the aforementioned Steamshovel Press in
its undated issue Number 11. Although the reviewer suggested that the book
was perhaps anti-Semitic in tone, he did say this about my allegation that
the Mossad had a hand in the conspiracy: "The thesis certainly has been
under-examined in the past and raises some interesting historical questions
about the relationship between the Kennedys and Israel that date back to
Joseph Kennedy's Neville Chamberlain-like nods to the Nazis."
Other than this cautious commentary, Steamshovel has been remarkably
reticent about mentioning the book or providing me the opportunity in its
pages to debate, for example, one Dave Emory, who actually contends that
there is a "Nazi" connection to the JFK assassination.
Other than these reviews (along with several others discussed
elsewhere in these pages, there have been none, although I have sent review
copies to all of the key editorial staff members of the Washington Post, the
Washington Post Book World and the New York Times, among many, many
other media outlets. I personally presented Michael Isikoff of Newsweek a
copy of the book, but I've yet to hear even a whimper from him.
I think the deafening silence speaks for itself.
What kind of sources did you rely on when writing Final
Judgment?
Following the release of earlier editions of Final Judgment there were
several attempts to suggest that the book relied upon less-than-reliable
sources—that my sources were biased, that they were "anti-Israel" or
otherwise perhaps "too right wing" in nature. That's nonsense. Don't
believe it. For the record, let's review the sources that I cited.