02-01-2012, 05:25 PM
My book report written over the weekend and posted in the Amazon reviews section:
Following suit from James Douglass' book 'JFK And The Unspeakable' JFK Assassination doyen Mark Lane gives an appropriately-titled 'last word' on the subject. Being a lawyer Lane focuses on the strict legal aspects of the case as garnered from his multi-decades of collecting it as an attorney, author, citizen agitator, and eponymous JFK investigator. The book is served well and capitalizes on the nascent crumbling of the rotten US Government, Warren Commission edifice the US public was forced to accept. Just as Robert E Lee was forced to recognize the dead created by the war he fought with the placing of Arlington Cemetery on Virginia soil across the Potomac from the capital, so is CIA forced to view its treasonous doings in Lane's laying of this sound work on their Langley doorstep. While modern times may be marked by dumbing-down and apathetic decline I think some don't realize we are now experiencing tectonic possibilities to overthrow entrenched democracy-stifling powers. This book does exactly that.
As the title indicates, 'Last Word' is a book-form indictment of the CIA in the murder of president Kennedy. Like Douglass, Lane plays a smooth tactic by reducing the material to the convincing facts, limiting the amount of conspiracy evidence in favor of exposing a clear pattern of CIA involvement by means of the legal record. The fact Lane manages to undress Bugliosi's obese manifesto of lies known as 'Reclaiming History' in less than 300 pages is moral artwork done with efficient intent. The beauty of 'Last Word' is that it pulls away from the debatable forensic information that is typical of conspiracy books and focuses on the legal 'forensics,' showing beyond a doubt that there's clear proof for CIA guilt in the Assassination. In the end 'Last Word' is an embodiment of the purpose and intent of the legal profession Lane practiced. Something that was never credibly applied in the case of the Kennedy Assassination.
If you read Douglass' 'JFK And The Unspeakable' and this book you'll put all doubts about the Assassination to rest. And if you want to see Bugliosi and 'The Kennedy Detail' get what they have coming read this book. Lane gets the last word on many key Assassination events like Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City and proof of CIA involvement through his trial of E Howard Hunt. What's wonderful about this book is Lane not only destroys most of the CIA propaganda that is commonly seen in defense of the Warren Commission but uses documentation to accurately trace its origin back to CIA.
I accuse! Bravo Mark Lane!
Following suit from James Douglass' book 'JFK And The Unspeakable' JFK Assassination doyen Mark Lane gives an appropriately-titled 'last word' on the subject. Being a lawyer Lane focuses on the strict legal aspects of the case as garnered from his multi-decades of collecting it as an attorney, author, citizen agitator, and eponymous JFK investigator. The book is served well and capitalizes on the nascent crumbling of the rotten US Government, Warren Commission edifice the US public was forced to accept. Just as Robert E Lee was forced to recognize the dead created by the war he fought with the placing of Arlington Cemetery on Virginia soil across the Potomac from the capital, so is CIA forced to view its treasonous doings in Lane's laying of this sound work on their Langley doorstep. While modern times may be marked by dumbing-down and apathetic decline I think some don't realize we are now experiencing tectonic possibilities to overthrow entrenched democracy-stifling powers. This book does exactly that.
As the title indicates, 'Last Word' is a book-form indictment of the CIA in the murder of president Kennedy. Like Douglass, Lane plays a smooth tactic by reducing the material to the convincing facts, limiting the amount of conspiracy evidence in favor of exposing a clear pattern of CIA involvement by means of the legal record. The fact Lane manages to undress Bugliosi's obese manifesto of lies known as 'Reclaiming History' in less than 300 pages is moral artwork done with efficient intent. The beauty of 'Last Word' is that it pulls away from the debatable forensic information that is typical of conspiracy books and focuses on the legal 'forensics,' showing beyond a doubt that there's clear proof for CIA guilt in the Assassination. In the end 'Last Word' is an embodiment of the purpose and intent of the legal profession Lane practiced. Something that was never credibly applied in the case of the Kennedy Assassination.
If you read Douglass' 'JFK And The Unspeakable' and this book you'll put all doubts about the Assassination to rest. And if you want to see Bugliosi and 'The Kennedy Detail' get what they have coming read this book. Lane gets the last word on many key Assassination events like Oswald's alleged trip to Mexico City and proof of CIA involvement through his trial of E Howard Hunt. What's wonderful about this book is Lane not only destroys most of the CIA propaganda that is commonly seen in defense of the Warren Commission but uses documentation to accurately trace its origin back to CIA.
I accuse! Bravo Mark Lane!