There is a perceived commercial market, despite the dismal sales numbers of nearly all JFKA related books, driven in part by actual shortcomings of government (mainly, arrogance, see government
intransigence vs transparency intent in bi-partisan ARRB legislation) transparency and responsiveness. In this thread for example, why would an obscure federal museum not simply be responsive to evolving technology by parting with a sliver of JW Booth's backbone for DNA comparison analysis, especially considering the reputations of those making the request, the facts they gathered and brought to the table, and the public and media fascination since the first decade of the last century?
https://www.jfkassassinationforum.com/index.php/topic,1657.0.htmlLincoln Assassination Status: a Still Open or Reopenable FBI Investigation?« on: January 22, 2019,
Booth's descendants are cooperative, especially considering the government did not conduct itself in a manner providing a clear chain of custody of the core evidence, Booth's body. They initially subjected it to the "bin Laden," treatment; "we disposed of it, this way, trust us!"
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20130817/MAGAZINE/308179967
Outliers: Bones of contention key to John Wilkes Booth mystery
By Modern Healthcare | August 17, 2013
The National Museum of Health and Medicine could hold the key to answering a controversy that's nearly 150 years old: Is President Lincoln's assassin actually buried in the historic Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore?...
....However, earlier this year, the U.S. Army Medical Command, which is in charge of the museum, denied the request, since a proposed DNA test would require using less than 0.4 grams of the bones. In a letter to Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who helped submit the request, the museum said ?the need to preserve these bones for future generations compels us to decline the destructive test.?
The publication of this book provided an opportunity to prove it's core premise as nonsense stemming from incompetent research.:
book.google.com
Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, ...
Peter Janney - 2013 - History
... Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace Peter Janney ... Scully took issue with my assertion that Mitchell had either possibly been Mary Meyer's ... Ironically, in his effort to discredit me and Mary's Mosaic, Tom Scully opened up ...
It had little to no effect on "the fevered," but the author did retract his accusation against what turned out to be not a vanished CIA assassin covering his tracks by giving false witness testimony in the 1965 Ray Crump murder trial, but a California University system academic living a normal and open life, since 1965.
If the book wasn't written, we would not be aware author Janney and his friend Doug Horne are not seeking verifiable facts, wherever the trail leads. They are resentful of reliable evidence conflicting with their agenda and of those who find and present what they don't want to know.
There are surprisingly few who are openminded, on either side of the argument, but our political beliefs are similarly entrenched! So, a book is like a pitch, an opportunity to whack it out of the park or for readers to expose it as a foul ball. The emergence of the internet renders books obsolete. How many are ever revised to respond to proven challenges of their contents?
