What are your top 5 JFK assassination books?

[Bill Chapman]

Not adequate for that task either...

Pretty much not worth spombleprofglidnoctobuns, huh..  looks like you won't be taking a knee at Bugliosi's gravesite any time soon.

[Richard Rubio]

1) The JFK Myths: A Scientific Investigation of the Kennedy Assassination, by Larry Sturdivan

2) With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit, by Dale Myers

3) Case Closed, by Gerald Posner

4) The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963, by William Manchester

5) Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of President John F Kennedy,by Vincent Bugliosi **

**I haven't actually read Bugliosi's book from beginning to end because it's too damn long.

Great list. Yes, Bugliosi's book is the ultimate authority on the assassination, these other books are worth reading too.

I think Gerald Posner is also an authority on the Nazis, I saw him on some documentary the other day, "Nazis, the ultimate evil", pretty good.

[Thomas Graves]

... [Bugliosi's book] would come in handy if you run out of toilet paper.

I think Mark Twain said something about your ilk in this context.

--  MWT   

[Jerry Freeman]

The invasion plan was largely Kennedy's. He was intrigued by limited military strikes or operations.

The invasion plan was largely Kennedy's.

The man overseeing plans for the Bay of Pigs Invasion was Richard M. Bissell Jr., the CIA's Deputy Director for Plans (DDP). He assembled a number of other agents to aid him in the plot, many of whom had worked on the 1954 Guatemalan coup six years before; these included David Philips, Gerry Droller and E. Howard Hunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

[Jerry Freeman]

I think Mark Twain said something about your ilk in this context.

Do tell   

[Thomas Graves]

Do tell   

What Mark Twain said about your ilk?

That no matter how many facts you confront them with (as Bugliosi does par excellence in Reclaiming History), brainwashed true-believers are gonna go right on a-believin' the garbage they believe in ... or words to that effect.

--  MWT 

[Jerry Freeman]

What Mark Twain said  .....

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
                                                              Mark Twain 

[Thomas Graves]

"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
                                                              Mark Twain 

"Truth [e.g., the first shot occured about one second before Zapruder resumed filming at Z-133, CE399 went clear through both JFK and JBC, and JFK's violent head and upper torso movement was caused by a combination of a catastrophic neuromuscular reaction while sitting and wearing a rigid back corset, plus a Newton's Third Law "jet effect" when the right side of his brain was violently expelled through a palm-sized exit hole in the top-right area of his scull] is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't."

--  Mark Twain