It's been listed twice before in this thread.
It used to be a favorite of mine. But the book evaluates evidence through an ultra-liberal anti-authority lens. The Commission and police are always painted in a dark light and she's not adverse to introducing her own assumptions.
It is terribly in need of updating, as when she faults the Commission for not publishing (or examining "so far as is known") the photographs and films of Hugh Betzner, Robert J. Hughes and Ralph Simpson (p 25-26). The first two were published in Life magazine a few months after Meagher's book came out, and the Commission determined that "Ralph Simpson" was a prank caller. On page 26, she charges the documentary "Four Days in November" with suppressing a sound track that could "resolve the problems of how many shots were fired, and of the interval between the shots." As if to suggest a cover-up, Meagher writes: "The Warren Report, like the sound track at the crucial moment, is silent." I figure reasonable researchers watching "Four Days in November" would figure out the crowd and motorcycle noises were generic and dubbed.
None of this to do with Betzner, Hughes, "Simpson" and "Four Days" is corrected or amended in the book's 1976 reprint. Yet she faults the Commission for "disbanding" so as not to keep pace with developments.
Meagher's entire view of the assassination, the view that colored her interpretation of it, can be summed up by her admission that after hearing about the shooting that she said, "I know they'll blame a communist for this."
She had already made her mind up as to what happened.
Of course, a communist wasn't blamed for the assassination. Lee Oswald was blamed. They didn't blame Castro, or the Soviets, or domestic communists; they didn't use the event to create a "Red Scare." They said Oswald, alone, for reasons unknown killed JFK.
If these evil militarists and fanatic anti-communists wanted to use the assassination for their own interests, then why act like this? Why clear Castro? Why clear domestic leftists? Why blame a sole gunman for reasons unknown?
