What's the worst JFK assassination related book you ever came across?

[Reggie Montoya]

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At any rate, what's the worst book you came across dealing with the JFK conspiracy? I nominate American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Mother by Deanne Stillman.
Interested in reading your answers.

[Jerry Organ]

In terms of millions of people deceived and the amount of errors-per-page, these mass-marketed titles from major publishers spring to mind.


"Who Killed JFK?" 1992, many reissues. "High Treason", 1989, the later paperback version and reissues sold millions. A more recent large-selling book littered with errors is "JFK and The Unspeakable", 2008.

[Gerry Down]

In terms of millions of people deceived and the amount of errors-per-page, these mass-marketed titles from major publishers spring to mind.


"Who Killed JFK?" 1992, many reissues. "High Treason", 1989, the later paperback version and reissues sold millions. A more recent large-selling book littered with errors is "JFK and The Unspeakable", 2008.

Millions? If so, Groden must be a millionaire?

[Jerry Organ]

Millions? If so, Groden must be a millionaire?

If Groden made, say, $250,000 from books and videos, and selling autopsy pictures to tabloids, and didn't have any meaningful employment for 25 years, then he was living modestly. His career as a courtroom expert witness went nowhere fast. Wonder if he's getting a mental disability pension.

[Gerry Down]

I was just thinking if High Treason sold 1 million copies, and the author received $1 per copy sold that would be 1 million dollars. Of course half that would go to Livingstone depending on how they had agreed to split funds.

[Jerry Organ]

I was just thinking if High Treason sold 1 million copies, and the author received $1 per copy sold that would be 1 million dollars. Of course half that would go to Livingstone depending on how they had agreed to split funds.

Per average rates, for Groden to get $1 per paperback sale, the paperback would have to sell for $40.

[Tom Scully]

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At any rate, what's the worst book you came across dealing with the JFK conspiracy? I nominate American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Mother by Deanne Stillman.
Interested in reading your answers.

The book's premise was that Mary was murdered by a CIA "wet work" operative who had attempted to frame Raymond Crump in her shooting because "Mary knew too much!"

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

Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, ...
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Peter Janney · 2016
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"... Georgia law professor, Scully identified himself as “a moderator at the Internet forum, JFK Debate, created by John Simkin.”2 Mr. Scully focused his attack on the conclusions I had presented about the prosecution witness William L ..."

I "dug my own grave," in the CT "community".

The author of the book's friend, Douglas Horne, "lashed out" in reaction to the unwelcome facts I presented.



Horne's friend, book author Peter Janney confirmed in the revised edition of his book. forced by my research results, that I had not concealed who I was by naming me in his attempt to discredit me because he could not counter the facts I discovered that had dismantled his fairy tale.

https://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/27065-tom-scully/#comment-439847
 Posted April 9, 2021 (edited)

    On 4/9/2021 at 6:06 PM, Paul Brancato said:

    Any idea why?

I checked and discover the reason why he left. Apparently, Tom and the author of Destiny Betrayed were censored because of Hank Albarelli's complaint over the Mary Meyer issue. Edited April 9, 2021 by Calvin Ye

[Mitch Todd]

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At any rate, what's the worst book you came across dealing with the JFK conspiracy? I nominate American Confidential: Uncovering the Bizarre Story of Lee Harvey Oswald and his Mother by Deanne Stillman.
Interested in reading your answers.

The worst book I've personally encountered on the assassination is Paul Chambers' Head Shot. To begin with, the title is kinda tasteless. But what really gets me is, it's mostly filler...and most of that filler has little or nothing to do with JFK or his assassination. When Chambers, who has a PhD in Physics, gets around to discussing the physics of the assassination, his treatment of it is incredibly disappointing and juvenile.

Another dishonorable mention is Barry Ernst's The Girl on the Stairs, for similar reasons. Ernst had a long magazine article worth of new and interesting material, but he stretches it out to 400 pages with padding and rehashing well-worn arguments. It's also not well organized, and it lacks simple things like a table of contents or an index. At least he left in footnotes.