Anthony Summers

[Magda Hassan]

Blackburst is one of McAdams' associates, I believe. Great company you're keeping, Summers. The next edition will probably have a forward by Bugliosi.
I'm still glad to have the first two editions of Conspiracy on my shelf, because they were good books.

I enjoyed Conspiracy as well. But one good book to gain entrance into the research community is a very old trick.
In a letter to me in the mid eighties he wrote that "some rouge elements of the CIA MAY have been involved in a conspiracy."
He also said he'd long since ceased active research on the assassination.
Obviously. Now he just quotes known disinfo artists like Dale Myers and Patrica Lambert.
BUSTED Tony.
Dawn

Yes it was a good book. But I will save my money and not bother getting this one. It sounds like he is just sitting on his former reputation and hollowing out the story and replacing it with what a few suspect forum members have told him and not done any of his own research to update anything. Very disappointing. There has been so much more information come to light since 1980's. You're right Tracy. It is just missing Bugliosi's forward ::hush::

Dawn,

In addition to your good points about the limitations of Anthony Summers' revised edition of his book, I would add the following:

It is incumbent on any scholar-researcher to keep abreast of new developments in the field, even if he or she is no longer involved in research. In the case of Anthony Summers, it is clear that he has not taken the time to inform himself of the findings of ARRB and the contributions of countless scholars since the publication of his 1980 book Conspiracy.

Summers is tweaking his outdated book, when it requires a complete re-write, based on the new evidence and discoveries.

There is still value to Summers' Conspiracy, and used copies are available on Amazon starting at $0.54. In the context of all that we know about the JFK assassination today, that is the right price for Summers's book.


James

This is the difference between Summers and an informed researcher like Jim DiEugenio who completely rewrote his 'Destiny Betrayed' based on the latest discoveries and the ARRB. Summers tried to make a quick buck for the 50th, and he repeated the old news about Herminio Diaz being one of the assassins, something that Fabian Escalante had already revealed some years ago. And yet he has the nerve to talk about conspiracy buffs and to tell us that the case cannot be solved.

Yes, lazy. No new genuine research from someone who should know better. The most positive thing one could conclude is he is cashing in on the timing but hasn't got around to doing any new research himself just relying on input from some pretty dubious sources.

Summers can play a shell game all he wants. The science doesn't lie ~ there was a conspiracy of many bullets fired on November 22, 1963!

Quite. Plenty of evidence. Looks like there are some big guns wheeling out to deflect attention from it.