My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Joseph McBride]

Hi jim any idea when your new book will be out ....

I didn't know he credited CTKA.




Well, turnabout is fair play.

In my upcoming book, Reclaiming Parkland, I credit him. But not for what you would think.

I used his biography of Spielberg, since Hanks and Spielberg are buddies. In more ways than one.

I should add, that biography is the best one on Spielberg you will read anywhere.

It is supposed to be timed with the release of the Parkland film. ANd I am trying very hard to make that deadline.

Joseph's book on Spielberg was helpful to me. I took a lot of notes on it. It was really interesting to find out how close Hanks and Spielberg were to Clinton and now to Obama. The other thing that was important to me was how Spielberg had always thought of himself as an outsider. Well, when I found out about Hanks' childhood, I could see why the two bonded: because they both wanted to be insiders once they got successful. Which is not true of everyone who becomes successful, even in that business e.g. Stanley Kubrick hated Hollywood.

But anyway, this should be Joseph's thread. His book it out right now. Since he was nice enough to drop in, he should have the stage.

Joseph: Did you build on Armstrong's work, which seems to imply that Tippit was waiting for Oswald on a bus? DId you confirm that was true?

Jim,

Thanks for your comments on my Spielberg book. I am glad it has been helpful to you. Faber and Faber published the third edition last fall.

The evidence tends to indicate that Tippit did not see the bus, though he may have been watching for it or a cab; Oswald instead may have been driven to Oak Cliff by the station wagon that departed from Dealey Plaza. The officer left his observation post at the Gloco station to try to find Oswald elsewhere in Oak Cliff. It was shortly after leaving the gas station that Tippit stopped a car on West Tenth Street and then went to the Top Ten Records store. He seemed frantic. There were other policemen around
Oak Cliff at the time, and I track some of their movements as well. Not every movement can be fully accounted for, but I examine all that can
be traced. There was a lot of activity around Oak Cliff at the time.