05-04-2015, 05:50 PM
There was another novel like this called Surrounded by Enemies. The author sent it to me after he saw that I had reviewed Greenfield's novel, If Kennedy Lived, negatively.
Twyman's book I thought was a real disappointment. His theory of the crime was so lame, that I did not even think it merited discussion. And his picture of Kennedy was so shallow and distorted that it may have been written by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. Its very clear that Twyman bought all that Bob Loomis BS about Kennedy that I pointed out in "The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy." Plus, like Tony Summers, he bought Hemming hook, line and sinker. (You know, Gordon Winslow's buddy.)
What kind of writer today can be taken seriously who discounts the Paines, what was going on in New Orleans with Banister, Ferrie and Shaw and others, and Allen Dulles, but says it was really LBJ and Hoover. Hoover didn't figure out Mexico City until six weeks after the fact! I mean his book was reminiscent of the Torbitt Document, as far as I was concerned. All the crap we have been trying to neutralize. Even the much vaunted stuff on the Z film alteration was not that impressive.
There were a few good things in the book, like the interview with McNamara on the Bay of Pigs. But that did not balance out the 600 page length and all the misleading stuff.. To say that someone like LBJ was morally outraged by Kennedy's cheating on his wife? Can the man be serious?
The worst thing about Twyman's book is that, incredibly, Philip Nelson took it seriously. And it served as the inspiration for his LBJ did it book. Nelson is a real piece of work. Because now he has written another book saying LBJ was behind the attack on the Liberty.
Its amazing to me that with all the great work being done on Kennedy's presidency by authors like Robert Rakove and others, that these guys swallow Horowitz, Collier, and CIA asset Hersh instead. Not realizing that their stuff is a smoke screen on Rakove's. There was even a trace of this in Stone's installment on JFK in the film of Untold History. The thing is, these people don't even know who Bob Loomis is. In a review I have coming out at CTKA on Two Days in June, I go into Gerald Posner's benefactor Loomis some more. Loomis found out that if he could not cut off the evidence in the JFK case, he could at least tarnish his legacy so that would rationalize his assassination.
Incredibly, some people bought this.
Twyman's book I thought was a real disappointment. His theory of the crime was so lame, that I did not even think it merited discussion. And his picture of Kennedy was so shallow and distorted that it may have been written by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. Its very clear that Twyman bought all that Bob Loomis BS about Kennedy that I pointed out in "The Posthumous Assassination of John F. Kennedy." Plus, like Tony Summers, he bought Hemming hook, line and sinker. (You know, Gordon Winslow's buddy.)
What kind of writer today can be taken seriously who discounts the Paines, what was going on in New Orleans with Banister, Ferrie and Shaw and others, and Allen Dulles, but says it was really LBJ and Hoover. Hoover didn't figure out Mexico City until six weeks after the fact! I mean his book was reminiscent of the Torbitt Document, as far as I was concerned. All the crap we have been trying to neutralize. Even the much vaunted stuff on the Z film alteration was not that impressive.
There were a few good things in the book, like the interview with McNamara on the Bay of Pigs. But that did not balance out the 600 page length and all the misleading stuff.. To say that someone like LBJ was morally outraged by Kennedy's cheating on his wife? Can the man be serious?
The worst thing about Twyman's book is that, incredibly, Philip Nelson took it seriously. And it served as the inspiration for his LBJ did it book. Nelson is a real piece of work. Because now he has written another book saying LBJ was behind the attack on the Liberty.
Its amazing to me that with all the great work being done on Kennedy's presidency by authors like Robert Rakove and others, that these guys swallow Horowitz, Collier, and CIA asset Hersh instead. Not realizing that their stuff is a smoke screen on Rakove's. There was even a trace of this in Stone's installment on JFK in the film of Untold History. The thing is, these people don't even know who Bob Loomis is. In a review I have coming out at CTKA on Two Days in June, I go into Gerald Posner's benefactor Loomis some more. Loomis found out that if he could not cut off the evidence in the JFK case, he could at least tarnish his legacy so that would rationalize his assassination.
Incredibly, some people bought this.