The Fiasco of Spartacus

[Dawn Meredith]

Vanessa admitted somewhere else that she had not read the book.

That's what I thought.

I wonder how many of these others who were in on these attacks had not down so either.

I mean, read the whole book and then went through the CD files. (Its the same approach I used with RH.)

If someone does that, I don't see how one can come away with anything but respect for what John did.

Even if you don't agree with him, it is one of the most original books in the field. In the sense that there are very few references to other books in his footnotes. Most of the time, maybe 90% from my estimate, he went to the primary sources. That is, either an interview or a document.

There are very few books in the field that do that.

Agreed... I just got off the phone with John who is still digging into Landesberg in NYC with Oswald... but he mentioned having paid a pretty penny for a couple dozen rolls of microfilm which have never been printed including as he just said the original notes from Mosby writing ND, as opposed to NO... I'll probably have to get a surplus reader as he said he'd let me look thru them any time....

Beyond the foornotes being primary sources, there are many which are primarily sources to documents only available at the Archives... which is why the Notebooks are so valuable. The original Norton report for example, and so many more originals... it's like being a kid in a candy shop at Baylor...

Landesberg in NYC with LEE while Harvey was in Russia. Quite an interesting and complex story, what was what we talked about earlier and he is editing it more before it gets posted.