21-01-2013, 01:42 PM
Vince Salandria just completed the book. He gave me permission to quote his evaluation of it:
"Jim, you have written extremely well on a subject that is enormously complex. As to be expected, your conclusions and mine are not always precisely congruent. But on a subject as complex and prolix as the Garrison investigation you have demonstrated the integrity, intelligence, work ethic and passion for the truth that gave birth to a work product which you can be rightly proud. You have produced the finest history of the desperate struggle of Jim Garrison to employ his public office as a public trust in unsuccessfully prosecuting Clay Shaw.
When I first met Jim in New York, I told him that he would learn more about the power behind the killing of Kennedy from what would happen to smash his prosecutorial efforts than what he would learn through his investigation. Your explication in your book of the infiltration of Jim's office by the CIA supports my prediction.
Thank you Jim for your fine work."
To be called the best in that field from a guy who was there in the middle of things, well, as I told Vince, that's really something. And I am so glad he understood how difficult it is to write about something as infinitely complicated as the Garrison inquiry in light of the declassified record. Because one of the things I tried to show is that, until these records were released, no one could begin the job of delineating just how large and how subversive the effort was to crush JG. As Len Osanic would say, "All this, because Oswald did it with that 12.95 MC rifle?
Well, finally, its out there. And no one can avoid it anymore. Interesting that Vince told JG at the start that that effort would define both him and JFK's murder.
"Jim, you have written extremely well on a subject that is enormously complex. As to be expected, your conclusions and mine are not always precisely congruent. But on a subject as complex and prolix as the Garrison investigation you have demonstrated the integrity, intelligence, work ethic and passion for the truth that gave birth to a work product which you can be rightly proud. You have produced the finest history of the desperate struggle of Jim Garrison to employ his public office as a public trust in unsuccessfully prosecuting Clay Shaw.
When I first met Jim in New York, I told him that he would learn more about the power behind the killing of Kennedy from what would happen to smash his prosecutorial efforts than what he would learn through his investigation. Your explication in your book of the infiltration of Jim's office by the CIA supports my prediction.
Thank you Jim for your fine work."
To be called the best in that field from a guy who was there in the middle of things, well, as I told Vince, that's really something. And I am so glad he understood how difficult it is to write about something as infinitely complicated as the Garrison inquiry in light of the declassified record. Because one of the things I tried to show is that, until these records were released, no one could begin the job of delineating just how large and how subversive the effort was to crush JG. As Len Osanic would say, "All this, because Oswald did it with that 12.95 MC rifle?
Well, finally, its out there. And no one can avoid it anymore. Interesting that Vince told JG at the start that that effort would define both him and JFK's murder.