Vincent Bugliosi Dies at 80

[Joseph McBride]

• Vincent Bugliosi's massive tome on the Kennedy assassination is a disgrace, an intellectually dishonest attempt to prop up the thoroughly discredited Warren Report, and a constantly shrill personal attack on any of us who dissent from the official version. His is one of the very worst books on the case, which is saying a lot. Bugliosi got a huge advance, hiring people to ghost parts of the book without adequate credit, and you have to wonder why and how he received that kind of backing. Bugliosi got a huge advance, hiring people to ghost parts of the book without adequate credit, and you have to wonder why and how he received that kind of backing. James Di Eugenio mounted an impressive rebuttal to Bugliosi in his book RECLAIMING PARKLAND: TOM HANKS, VINCENT BUGLIOSI, AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.