15-10-2013, 02:32 PM
Books three and four of Walt's mammoth work on the JFK assassination are now up on Amazon. They cover the Warren Commission period ("Disappointment") and the years of investigation by researchers thereafter ("Discovery") respectively.
DISAPPOINTMENT
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Chronology-...walt+brown
DISCOVERY
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Chronology-...walt+brown
I have some more thoughts on the overall project (and these won't be my last on this subject, as I plan to add more commentary and discussion as I progress through the works). While all the installments are appearing on Amazon as ebooks, anyone who orders the set from Walt gets 21 separate Word documents included on their chronology CD, each (following the preview) on a different subject or topic. The first four main documents - Dynasty, Death, Disappointment and Discovery - are the bulk of the book proper, and each of those individual volumes is more than a million words long - in Word doc/Times New Roman font sized 9, over 1500 pages in length. So, in total there is more than 6000 pages of writing just for those first four books. The chronology starts off (in book 1) with a lot of historical data (all quite readable and witty) as Brown traces the ancestry and earlier years of the various players, but a quarter of the way through the first book it settles down and you're getting solid JFK/Cold War/assassination/cover-up data from that point on until the end of the final book.
Brown continually uses specific moments of interest to stop and digress on the topic at length, analysing the data, giving his opinion, linking to other facts, pointing out things you might have missed - so the whole thing is really an extended, digressive, massive book on the overall conspiracy and event organised progressively by time period. Brown, for example, doesn't get stuck into the Warren Commission until he reaches that section chronologically. This isn't a hard and fast rule though so there is plenty of forward-looking discussions regarding the assassination even in the earlier pre-1960 entries.
Comprehensive' and detailed' barely begin to describe the amount of content featured in the work. The section of the chronology that covers 12:29pm on November 22nd 1963, (right before the assassination) and the following minute, 12:30pm (the assassination itself) is more than 100 A4 pages in length just for those two minutes alone. Elsewhere within the volumes, Brown's own autobio as a researcher is more than 300 pages long - it's an alternately funny, eye-opening, cantankerous and depressing read (he faced senior academic staff at his workplace who were wholly unsympathetic to his efforts), and it offers both potshots and hosannahs to other researchers, some of whom will not be unfamiliar to members of this forum. A collection of Jack Ruby testimony and interviews included is more than 3000 pages, and there are accompanying books (fully annotated with notes from Brown) on Cuban testimony, the mafia, motorcade witnesses, medical evidence and so on. There's a moving 200pg+ collection of all of JFK's speeches and press conferences, and several more books beyond those are featured (i.e 'Facts', where he tackles theories or disinfo that he disagrees with, for a few hundred pages, 'Characterisations', where he offers opinions and bio detail on people that didn't fit into the main books, again for a few hundred pages). There's a separate book again (200 pg+) on the U-2 spy plane saga and the CIA's involvement in same which is probably worth a thread of discussion all by itself. The book covering the medical testimony runs for 700pg+. You get the idea. I haven't listed all the books and there are more beyond those. It is quite overwhelming but as there is no need to rush through the volumes, readers can tackle the various works at their own preferred pace.
I would strongly recommend that serious researchers get the books in Word format direct from Walt for two reasons. The first is that they can then easily copy and/or print out whatever parts they want (I plan to take the whole thing to a copy shop and print everything out). The second is that Walt has fully indexed all those Word docs, and the index by itself runs for more than 1000 pages of entries. Purchasers of the ebook versions won't have the option to use that index data to find entries that they're curious about, which would be a shame with a book such as this one.
I'm still reading through the main documents but plan to post more details and excerpts on this forum and elsewhere. If anyone has questions about the books or particular entries, feel free to ask. Bottom line is that I think the chronology is truly a major landmark in studies of the assassination, and despite the length and endless supplementary volumes that are included it's not a stunt but a formidable piece of research that demands to be digested and taken seriously. More to come.
DISAPPOINTMENT
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Chronology-...walt+brown
DISCOVERY
http://www.amazon.com/Master-Chronology-...walt+brown
I have some more thoughts on the overall project (and these won't be my last on this subject, as I plan to add more commentary and discussion as I progress through the works). While all the installments are appearing on Amazon as ebooks, anyone who orders the set from Walt gets 21 separate Word documents included on their chronology CD, each (following the preview) on a different subject or topic. The first four main documents - Dynasty, Death, Disappointment and Discovery - are the bulk of the book proper, and each of those individual volumes is more than a million words long - in Word doc/Times New Roman font sized 9, over 1500 pages in length. So, in total there is more than 6000 pages of writing just for those first four books. The chronology starts off (in book 1) with a lot of historical data (all quite readable and witty) as Brown traces the ancestry and earlier years of the various players, but a quarter of the way through the first book it settles down and you're getting solid JFK/Cold War/assassination/cover-up data from that point on until the end of the final book.
Brown continually uses specific moments of interest to stop and digress on the topic at length, analysing the data, giving his opinion, linking to other facts, pointing out things you might have missed - so the whole thing is really an extended, digressive, massive book on the overall conspiracy and event organised progressively by time period. Brown, for example, doesn't get stuck into the Warren Commission until he reaches that section chronologically. This isn't a hard and fast rule though so there is plenty of forward-looking discussions regarding the assassination even in the earlier pre-1960 entries.
Comprehensive' and detailed' barely begin to describe the amount of content featured in the work. The section of the chronology that covers 12:29pm on November 22nd 1963, (right before the assassination) and the following minute, 12:30pm (the assassination itself) is more than 100 A4 pages in length just for those two minutes alone. Elsewhere within the volumes, Brown's own autobio as a researcher is more than 300 pages long - it's an alternately funny, eye-opening, cantankerous and depressing read (he faced senior academic staff at his workplace who were wholly unsympathetic to his efforts), and it offers both potshots and hosannahs to other researchers, some of whom will not be unfamiliar to members of this forum. A collection of Jack Ruby testimony and interviews included is more than 3000 pages, and there are accompanying books (fully annotated with notes from Brown) on Cuban testimony, the mafia, motorcade witnesses, medical evidence and so on. There's a moving 200pg+ collection of all of JFK's speeches and press conferences, and several more books beyond those are featured (i.e 'Facts', where he tackles theories or disinfo that he disagrees with, for a few hundred pages, 'Characterisations', where he offers opinions and bio detail on people that didn't fit into the main books, again for a few hundred pages). There's a separate book again (200 pg+) on the U-2 spy plane saga and the CIA's involvement in same which is probably worth a thread of discussion all by itself. The book covering the medical testimony runs for 700pg+. You get the idea. I haven't listed all the books and there are more beyond those. It is quite overwhelming but as there is no need to rush through the volumes, readers can tackle the various works at their own preferred pace.
I would strongly recommend that serious researchers get the books in Word format direct from Walt for two reasons. The first is that they can then easily copy and/or print out whatever parts they want (I plan to take the whole thing to a copy shop and print everything out). The second is that Walt has fully indexed all those Word docs, and the index by itself runs for more than 1000 pages of entries. Purchasers of the ebook versions won't have the option to use that index data to find entries that they're curious about, which would be a shame with a book such as this one.
I'm still reading through the main documents but plan to post more details and excerpts on this forum and elsewhere. If anyone has questions about the books or particular entries, feel free to ask. Bottom line is that I think the chronology is truly a major landmark in studies of the assassination, and despite the length and endless supplementary volumes that are included it's not a stunt but a formidable piece of research that demands to be digested and taken seriously. More to come.