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The author, Darwin Porter, also co-wrote this classic: http://www.amazon.co...ref=rdr_ext_tmb From the publisher: The Kennedys: All the Gossip Unfit for Print No other book in the history of publishing has assembled in one volume 80 years of pansexual scandals associated with the Kennedys-all in one guilty pleasure of a sizzling book. Meticulously researched, it showcases the indiscretions and extramarital romps of America's most famous political clan. In addition to lesser known and often shocking scandals about Jack (Mr. President), other parts of this pioneering page-turner will be devoted to Bobby and Teddy, with extra space reserved for founding father Joseph P. Kennedy when he operated as a libidinous Hollywood mogul. Paparazzi cameras zoom in on that uber-goddess of all things glam, Jackie, documenting her many love affairs, which were matched only by America's Prince Charming, her son, John-John, a horny young man with a gleam in his eyes. The Kennedys is illustrated with hundreds of candid photographs. Most of the book is reproduced in Amazon's Look Inside feature. Darwin Porter was working for the Miami Herald about the time things were starting to heat up. From his Amazon biography: Darwin Porter (born 1937) is known as one of the writers of the Frommer's travel guides and a sensationalist Hollywood biographer known for books whose source material derives from transcription of oral dialogues from living witnesses of not-widely-publicized events and relationships in the entertainment industry. Porter was born in western North Carolina and grew up in Miami Beach, Florida. He attended the University of Miami and graduated in 1959. At the age of 20, he became an entertainment columnist for The Miami Herald, later being made bureau chief in Key West. He has written biographies of Merv Griffin, Michael Jackson, Steve McQueen, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Howard Hughes, Katharine Hepburn, and Paul Newman, in many cases after their deaths. Most of these biographies have illuminated aspects of Hollywood history hitherto unknown to the general public. Darwin Porter's latest book alleges another JFK tryst: http://www.huffingto..._n_1956906.html Huffington got Porter's name wrong (Potter): http://www.amazon.co...e/dp/1936003317 (Posted with some reluctance - I don't think much of this genre.)

Apparently nothing. As an aside, she also reviewed Alford's book. http://www.nytimes.c...ref=janetmaslin

Killing Kennedy has vaulted to #1 on the NY Times hardcover non-fiction list. http://www.nytimes.c...ction/list.html If there is a silver lining, it demonstrates that there is still significant interest in the murder of President Kennedy. Unfortunately, it also demonstrates that too many of those people are clueless about the events surrounding Kennedy's death. And the rest don't care. Some things never change.

During the early days of the Warren Commission, Rep. Henry Gonzalez asked Earl Warren "to see whether there is any relationship between the Minutemen organization and the assassination of President John F Kennedy." http://news.google.c...minutemen&hl=en

I beg to differ. And you'd cut a lonely figure if you asked whether other members agreed with you. Lee's right.

Someone named Umit Tanzer has reposted Barry's video review. http://www.amazon.co...ostRecentReview

Due next month: http://www.melodika....25921&Itemid=55

Unfortunately, just a click brings it back.

Predictably, Killing Kennedy is off to a strong start. http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/54298-riordan-o-reilly-post-huge-debuts.html The New York Times numbers will be out very soon.

Thank you. I have ordered the book. From the Indiana University News Room For immediate release October 10, 2012 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- University of Pennsylvania professor Barbie Zelizer, one of the world's foremost scholars of memory and culture, will deliver two Patten Lectures this month at Indiana University in Bloomington. Zelizer, who holds the Raymond Williams Chair of Communications in the Annenberg School for Communication, focuses her research on the cultural dimensions of journalism, exploring in particular the areas of journalistic authority, collective memory and journalistic images in crises and wars. Full story: http://newsinfo.iu.e...rmal/23251.html

The New York Times Review by Janet Maslin http://www.nytimes.c...ugard.html?_r=0 Really disgusting. It's going to be quite an uphill battle for O'Reilly's critics.

From www.boston.com Kennedy Library in Dorchester to release seven boxes of Robert Kennedy papers on Cuban missile crisis by Brian Bender October 10, 2012 WASHINGTON -- After years of difficult negotiations with Robert F. Kennedy’s heirs – and growing pressure from researchers – the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum has been granted approval to release seven boxes of the former attorney general’s papers on Cuba, according to two sources directly involved in the deal. The papers, amounting to more than 2,700 pages, will be made available to researchers at the Kennedy Library in Dorchester on Thursday and will also be posted on line, they said. Full story: http://www.boston.co...rTnJ/story.html

From hollywoodreporter.com: Excellent archive documentary examines local factors, and U.S. complicity, that turned Brazil into a military dictatorship. by Stephen Dalton October 9, 2012 Excerpt: The U.S. foreign policy of “regime change” is nothing new, as this gripping documentary demonstrates. Drawing on recently declassified White House files, The Day That Lasted 21 Years visits the right-wing military coup that ousted Brazil’s democratically elected, left-leaning, Kennedy-style President João “Jango” Goulart from office in March 1964. Goulart’s fatal error was in being too friendly to Communist China and Cuba, as well as seeking to reform land rights and extract higher taxes from US companies. The result: he was overthrown, allowing a string of brutal dictators to rule Latin America’s largest nation for the next two decades. Director Camilo Tavares presents this stark history lesson in a no-frills, televisual style, so he is fortunate to have so many colorful characters and such a juicy spy-movie plot to sweep him along. While the broad framework of events may be familiar to casual students of U.S. and Brazilian history, The Day That Lasted 21 Years fills in the canvas with plenty of absorbing detail. Further festival interest seems likely, though the film’s most obvious outlet outside domestic markets is sure to be on the small screen. The twists and turns of the plot against Goulart play like a vintage Graham Greene or John LeCarre yarn. It comes as no surprise that Machiavellian US ambassador Lincoln Gordon was lobbying his Washington paymasters for the coup, even while he sipped cocktails with the Brazilian President, nor that the CIA were stirring up dissent by funding virulently anti-Goulart groups. When the crunch came, a US Navy task force was even parked offshore on “routine” manoeuvres in case the generals required extra muscle. In the event, Goulart conceded defeat within hours and fled across the border without need for direct foreign intervention. So while anti-American conspiracy theorists will find much to savor here, including scratchy vintage audio of both Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson appearing to endorse regime change, they may also be disappointed that the coup plotters also had ample domestic support among all sections of Brazilian society. Full review: http://www.hollywood...-years-o-377451 From the Spartacus page on Nelson Rockefeller: In reality, Rockefeller's political views were more conservative than they appeared. For example, in 1964, one of Rockefeller's law firm’s most important clients, M. A. Hanna Mining Company, had a serious problem.John J. McCloy had several meetings with Hanna’s chief executive officer, George M. Humphrey. The two men had been close friends since Humphrey was Eisenhower’s Treasury Secretary. Humphrey was very concerned about the company’s investment in Brazil. Hanna Mining was the largest producer of iron ore in the country. However, after João Goulart had become president in 1961, he began to talk about nationalizing the iron ore industry. Goulart was a wealthy landowner who was opposed to communism. However, he was in favour of the redistribution of wealth in Brazil. As minister of labour he had increased the minimum wage by 100%. Colonel Vernon Walters, the US military attaché in Brazil, described Goulart as “basically a good man with a guilty conscience for being rich.” The CIA began to make plans for overthrowing Goulart. A psychological warfare program approved by Henry Kissinger, at the request of telecom giant ITT during his chair of the 40 Committee, sent U.S. PSYOPS disinformation teams to spread fabricated rumors concerning Goulart. John J. McCloy was asked to set up a channel of communication between the CIA and Jack W. Burford, one of the senior executives of the Hanna Mining Company. In February, 1964, McCloy went to Brazil to hold secret negotiations with Goulart. However, Goulart rejected the deal offered by Hanna Mining. The following month Lyndon B. Johnson gave the go-ahead for the overthrow of João Goulart (Operation Brother Sam). Colonel Vernon Walters arranged for General Castello Branco to lead the coup. A US naval-carrier task force was ordered to station itself off the Brazilian coast. As it happens, the Brazilian generals did not need the help of the task force. Goulart’s forces were unwilling to defend the democratically elected government and he was forced to go into exile. http://www.spartacus...rockefeller.htm On July 30, 1962 President Kennedy met with Brazilian ambassador Lincoln Gordon to discuss the situation in Brazil. Kennedy taped the conversation. http://books.google....art cia&f=false From William Blum's book Killing Hope: http://books.google....art cia&f=false In 1984 Silvio Tendler produced an award-winning documentary (Jango) on the life of Goulart and the military coup that overthrew him: http://en.wikipedia....ki/Jango_(film) Thy Will Be Done.

David Talbot reviews Killing Kennedy for Salon. Excerpt: Once upon a time, Bill O’Reilly had balls when it came to investigating the Kennedy assassination. Back in 1991 — as a reporter for the tabloid TV news show, “Inside Edition” – O’Reilly to track the epic crime all the way into the dark labyrinth of the CIA. Following up on the important work done by investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations in the late ‘70s, O’Reilly boldly told his “Inside Edition” audience that there were “crucial” links between alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and the CIA. O’Reilly also reported that the CIA had infiltrated the office of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who brought the only criminal case in the JFK assassination to trial, in an effort to sabotage Garrison’s investigation.That was then – when O’Reilly was a scrappy reporter for low-budget syndicated TV. But now, of course, he’s BILL O’REILLY – Fox News icon, a lavishly paid centerpiece of the Murdoch empire. Everything he says – every windy pontification and dyspeptic remark – is writ LARGE. He can no longer afford to have the courage of his suspicions. In O’Reilly’s new ideological mold, the CIA is not the incubator of an unspeakable crime against American democracy – it’s the defender of the greatest nation in the world. And so we have the Fox News star’s latest instant bestseller, “Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot,” co-written by Martin Dugard, who collaborated with O’Reilly on his earlier runaway success, “Killing Lincoln.” There is almost nothing in this Kennedy for Beginners book that indicates O’Reilly once did some original research on this murky and still deeply haunting subject. Most of this surprisingly dumbed-down book is a biographical rehash of the Kennedy story that will contain nothing new for even casual readers of People magazine and viewers of Kennedy soap opera biopics over the years. Once again, we get the story of JFK’s PT-109 heroics in the South Pacific; the lurid tales of Jack’s womanizing and Jackie’s anguish; the requisite cameos of Sinatra, Marilyn and the Mob; the familiar snapshots of a deeply disgruntled Lyndon Johnson, continually humiliated by the Kennedy brothers and their elite Harvard crowd. None of this is worth the book’s $28 price of admission. When it comes to the assassination of President Kennedy, these days Bill O’Reilly embraces the lone nut theory, pinning sole blame on Lee Harvey Oswald. But his case against Oswald is feeble, and he’s obviously still haunted by the suspicions of the younger, freer Bill O’Reilly. In “Killing Kennedy,” he can’t help returning to those earlier suspicions, in fleeting moments of the book, as if darting a tongue at a nagging tooth. Complete story: http://www.salon.com...illy_wimps_out/

In a few days time I plan to publish a series of e-books. This will include the title, “The Assassination of John F. Kennedy”. The book will be made up of my current website pages plus a few extras. This will enable students and researchers to study the subject offline. Unlike with traditional books, it is now possible to publish new editions immediately without extra costs. I therefore plan to publish a revised edition in time for the Christmas market. The JFK assassination section is only a small part of my website. The Spartacus Educational Encyclopaedia has over 11,000 articles (apparently this is the word count of 23 copies of “War and Peace”). It has not been possible to keep my pages updated with the latest evidence. As people like Greg Parker have pointed out, I have not always kept to my intentions of providing in one place the different interpretations of people and events. Although I have expressed strong opinions about the case on the Forum I have tried on the website to provide a balanced view (as an historian I am aware that complete objectivity is not possible). Over the next couple of months I am giving members the opportunity to suggest changes to the content of my web pages. This is quite an undertaking and therefore I would like your emails to take the following format: (1) URL, for example: http://www.spartacus...k/JFKoswald.htm (2) A brief description of why you think the page needs changing. (3) Number the paragraph and provide the suggested edit or write the paragraph that should be added. This will be more acceptable if you include a quotation, for example: Larry Hancock has argued in his book, Nexus: The CIA and Political Assassination (2011), that “….” (4) I will be more sympathetic to adding additional interpretations than in removing interpretations that you disapprove of. (5) You are also free to provide additions to the sources section. I will notify the member by email if and when the page has been updated. This will be the page that will appear in the new edition of the ebook. John, I can't imagine the amount of effort, imagination and dedication required to found, expand and maintain Spartacus. You have provided a valuable and free historical resource. Any undertaking like this would surely contain some errors and omissions, but I think you have always taken positive steps to improve accuracy and completeness. You know the content of Spartacus better than anyone. Do you yourself have any suggestions for specific subjects or general areas that might need review for possible updating?

http://foresthills-r...ovie-set-friday Check out the trailer on The Umbrella Man Movie's Facebook page: https://www.facebook...mbrellaManMovie The first part of the audio seems out of sorts, but stay with it. It's worth it. The actors and dialogue are from the stage version, I think.

O'Reilly's publicity interview for AARP: http://www.aarp.org/...-oreilly.1.html Off to a fast start with Amazon: http://www.publisher...rse-top-10.html

Lee, I agree with you that there is more to O P Wright than meets the eye. What that is I don't know. I leave it to guys like you to figure it out. I know he spent some serious time with some of the Secret Service agents in the chaos that was Parkland.

Josiah Thompson told Rex Bradford: REX: Can you talk about your visits to Parkland Hospital and what you found out first of all about that bullet which mysteriously showed up on a hospital stretcher after the assassination? JOSIAH: You bet. We'll have to rewind back until - this was early November 1966. I'd been hired as a consultant for Life Magazine and we were all working on a story that appeared in late November 1966 called "Grounds for Reasonable Doubt," a reappraisal of the Kennedy assassination. By that time Parkland Hospital was basically an armed fort in terms of journalists and people interested in the Kennedy assassination. They had - Parkland Hospital had really had it. Their security people were keeping the press and other people out. Life Magazine got me and, I think a, uh, another light-stringer named Patsy Swank into Parkland Hospital, and I interviewed Darrell Tomlinson, who found the bullet, and I interviewed the Security Director, O.P. Wright, who was handed the bullet by Tomlinson, and who subsequently then gave the bullet to a Secret Service agent by the name of Johnsen. I was interested in Wright because as a ex-deputy Chief of Police and a cop for twenty five or thirty years, Wright had an educated eye for bullets. So I had brought along for that interview, a bunch of photographs of bullets, .38's, the ballistic comparison rounds for 399, and then 399 itself. So I started putting these photographs out and asking Wright what the bullet he found looked like. I put out the .38's, and he said, "eh, I don't - the .38's didn't look like that." And then I put out the ballistic comparison rounds, and he said, "no, no - it was pointed." And then I put a photograph of 399, and Wright said, "no... no you know, can't you hear, I said it was pointed." REX: (laughs) JOSIAH: At that point then he reaches into his desk and pulls out a unfired projectile, I think it was a 30/30, with a pointed tip, and he said, "now that's what I'm talking about. It looked like that." And I looked at the 30/30 round, and gulped, and said "look can I keep this?" And he said, "yeah, sure." So I put it into my pocket and photographed it that night. The photograph is in Dealey - is in Six Seconds. That bullet is pointed. And Wright certainly had an educated eye for the bullet, the so-called stretcher bullet, and he had it in his possession for a few minutes in any case. So that raised the whole possibility that the bullet in evidence as Commission Exhibit 399 is not the bullet found on the stretcher. http://www.maryferre..._3_-_Transcript

You didn't note any answers. You asked three questions. You gave absolutely no indication that you even watched Barry's video.

Barry answers that question in the first fifteen seconds of his video.

If you're thinking of buying this book, I'd suggest taking a minute to think twice. There's nothing there of substance, except for people that plan a formal review of some kind. I stopped in my local bookstore, found a chair and sped read the entire book in an hour. I took no notes, but this is from a pretty good memory. Very little of the book dealt with "killing kennedy." The parts that did were weak beyond belief. O'Reilly claims that Oswald's first shot hit the President in "the back of the lower neck." He claimed that during the shots Governor Connally screamed, "They're going to kill us both!" Throughout the book O'Reilly includes a paragraph here and there about Oswald and what he was doing and thinking at the time. O'Reilly claims to know the exact date when Oswald decided to murder President Kennedy. O'Reilly writes about a lot about things like PT 109, Kennedy's promiscuity (at length), Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, the Emmett Till murder, the obligatory Bay of Pigs and Missile Crisis. He writes a lot about Jacqueline Kennedy. He touches on episodes like the Walker shooting and writes that Marina kept her husband captive in the bathroom for the better part of a day. O'Reilly writes that he was knocking on de Mohrendschildt's door when he heard the shotgun blast. Of course O'Reilly portrays Lee Oswald as a deranged crazy communist drifter loner loser. O'Reilly never misses an opportunity to try and drive these false points home. O'Reilly has taken the Warren Report and Manchester's Death of a President and severely distilled them down into a quasi- journalistic, jingoistic polemic. And that's just for part three - the assassination. If I had been taking notes, I could have listed a couple dozen of things that were either false or questionable. There's no doubt this book will be raked. It's an easy target. In my opinion, critics could focus more on O'Reilly's egregious sins of omission than his sins of commission. And I think less might be more. I can't help but think about all the good books written by researchers that worked hard and the modest sales that resulted. This book by O'Reilly will probably be another million-seller for him. It isn't fair, but that's the power of television. I guess the good news is that President Kennedy's murder will be a current topic, even if only to a limited extent. That's better than nothing. Edited to add: I almost forgot; O'Reilly has Oswald firing three shots from a standing position. He calls Martin Dugard "the best researcher I could find."

O'Reilly's book goes on saie today and he will be hawking it. O'Reilly has long known that controversy gets ratings and it sells books. He and Dugard set out with a purpose to make Killing Kennedy as controversial as possible. It's an ugly book with ugly intent. I hope that critics won't be their own worst enemy. http://www.usatoday....nation/1591991/

By the fall of 1972 Joesten was in "rather poor health," as he described it. He was forced to suspend publication of his Truth Letter: According to Joesten, the years of hard work and stress had taken their toll: http://www.baylor.ed...gallery_id=3394 According to this website Joesten died in August, 1975: http://www.mocavo.co...ESTEN-1907-1975 The cover of Joesten's book on Christine Keeler and Profumo: http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/

Spartacus Educational's webpage on Joachim Joesten has a number of excerpts from How Kennedy Was Killed: The Full Appalling Story: http://www.spartacus.../JFKjoesten.htm ABE Books has a copy listed for $327: http://www.abebooks....nedy was killed