JFK Research Methodology

[Anthony Thorne]

But in books about the JFK assassination, authors all mention names for the same reason--to list persons who were either suspects, or were somehow related to the act of the assassination.

James, thanks for your response. Bugliosi's RECLAIMING HISTORY mentions many figures from typical assassination literature. It does not view them as suspects, or as related to the assassination. Rather, it discusses how conspiracy theorists viewed those figures as suspects, and felt they were related to the assassination, and how the claims of conspiracy about those figures fall apart when viewed through the prism of Bugliosi's fine intellect. A person examining the index of Bugliosi's book might view it as the greatest assassination volume of all time simply from the broad number of entries cited, yet they would be off target in thinking so.

I can feel we're going around in circles so I'll finish with the comment that I don't view the number of entries in JVB's index as a decent measure of how good her book is. If you feel indexes are a good way to compare the quality of assassination volumes, fine.