26-06-2019, 06:34 PM
Thanx to Mr. Thorne for correcting my statement about Peter Dale Scott and Skyhorse. I did google his books, but apparently not an accurate search result. I should have looked on Worldcat "identities".
That being said, I have found the following on Worldcat---by Peter Dale Scott: Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (U.C. Press 1993), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (Random House 1976), Oswald, Mexico and Deep Politics (Skyhorse 2013), Crime and Cover-up: The CIA, the Mafia and the Dallas-Watergate Commection (Westworks 1977), The War Conspiracy: JFK,9/11 and the Deep Politics of War (Skyhorse 2013).
Of the two published by Skyhorse, there was only the one book---The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond that was specifically about JFK. And apparently, that was a collection of much older journal articles about the assassination. The other Skyhorse book included 9-11 and includes the topic of war (according to its title).
None of these were on par with "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK" by Scott. I will stand by my claim that Skyhorse has avoided any groundbreaking books about the JFK assassination.
I also fail to understand the claim by some that the Baker-Haslem books were only done for profit. The book Me and Lee has 538 customer reviews. My own analysis of this number is that, for every one Amazon review, there are about 10 book sales on Amazon Bookscan. And there might be 5 times that many sold worldwide in bookstores. So that equals 15,000 books.
I can tell you from personal experience that the author might net One Dollar per book. So for all that work by Judyth Vary Baker, she might have taken home $15000, to $20,000 dollars. I doubt that she would have made even minimum wage, given all the time you have to spend in writing the book and polishing the manuscript.
Her more recent works on David W. Ferrie, etc. would have to have yielded even much less money. So the theory that she and Haslem were in it for the money has to be questioned.
All of this misses the point.
In order to put together such a clever fake rendition of the events in Dallas, JVB (and Ed Haslem) would have to be almost genius level fraud artists. They came up with an explanation as to the death of Dr. Mary Sherman AND an explanation of why Oswald went to the Jackson, Louisiana mental hospital in the summer of 1963. I haven't seen any other explanations that account for those events.
This argument is very similar to the claim that author Gregory Douglas was a fake and that the Muller Journals, (allegedly written by Douglas) were forgeries.
O.K. The works of Baker and Douglas may have been partially or mostly faked. But that begs the question as to FROM WHERE DID THEY GET THEIR UNIQUE AND DETAILED INFORMATION that no one else has even come close to?
I have now passed the 200 mark of books I have read about the JFK assassination and closely related historical research about the JFK time period. What I can tell you for sure is that the information about the JFK assassination ranges all the way from The Road to Dallas published by the Harvard University Press to JFK, Nazis.... published by Adventures Unlimited Press. The latter mostly publishes UFO and Space Alien type of books.
So the JFK researcher has to look for JFK information where he or she can find it. It's impossible to generalize about the credibility of authors or the ratio of fiction to non-fiction in the publications.
Probably the best JFK assassination book is Treason For My Daily Bread which is written as a fictional novel. But there was obvious inside information behind it, revealing some inside connection on the part of the author Lebedev.
And how can Mr. Thorne or anyone else explain away this ridiculous situation with the book by H P Albarelli and Skyhorse?
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's a duck. And this walks like and looks exactly like a cover-up. And the plain truth is that mainstream publishers and corporate bookstores will not publish or offer for sale any new and genuine information about the JFK assassination.
To repeat, the best JFK books that the reader should read, apart from my own, are General Walker...by Dr. Jeffry Caufield and The Skorzeny Papers by Ralph Ganis. And there are probably others like "Prayer Man" and "Harvey and Lee" which also contain valuable information on the forensics.
(And Milo Reech on this site should, by rights, publish his own work-it would be great info).
And Skyhorse is a big corporate outlet and simply will never reveal any major truth about the JFK assassination. That's about as strongly guaranteed as the sun coming up in the east or the earth being round IMHO.
James Lateer
That being said, I have found the following on Worldcat---by Peter Dale Scott: Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (U.C. Press 1993), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (Random House 1976), Oswald, Mexico and Deep Politics (Skyhorse 2013), Crime and Cover-up: The CIA, the Mafia and the Dallas-Watergate Commection (Westworks 1977), The War Conspiracy: JFK,9/11 and the Deep Politics of War (Skyhorse 2013).
Of the two published by Skyhorse, there was only the one book---The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond that was specifically about JFK. And apparently, that was a collection of much older journal articles about the assassination. The other Skyhorse book included 9-11 and includes the topic of war (according to its title).
None of these were on par with "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK" by Scott. I will stand by my claim that Skyhorse has avoided any groundbreaking books about the JFK assassination.
I also fail to understand the claim by some that the Baker-Haslem books were only done for profit. The book Me and Lee has 538 customer reviews. My own analysis of this number is that, for every one Amazon review, there are about 10 book sales on Amazon Bookscan. And there might be 5 times that many sold worldwide in bookstores. So that equals 15,000 books.
I can tell you from personal experience that the author might net One Dollar per book. So for all that work by Judyth Vary Baker, she might have taken home $15000, to $20,000 dollars. I doubt that she would have made even minimum wage, given all the time you have to spend in writing the book and polishing the manuscript.
Her more recent works on David W. Ferrie, etc. would have to have yielded even much less money. So the theory that she and Haslem were in it for the money has to be questioned.
All of this misses the point.
In order to put together such a clever fake rendition of the events in Dallas, JVB (and Ed Haslem) would have to be almost genius level fraud artists. They came up with an explanation as to the death of Dr. Mary Sherman AND an explanation of why Oswald went to the Jackson, Louisiana mental hospital in the summer of 1963. I haven't seen any other explanations that account for those events.
This argument is very similar to the claim that author Gregory Douglas was a fake and that the Muller Journals, (allegedly written by Douglas) were forgeries.
O.K. The works of Baker and Douglas may have been partially or mostly faked. But that begs the question as to FROM WHERE DID THEY GET THEIR UNIQUE AND DETAILED INFORMATION that no one else has even come close to?
I have now passed the 200 mark of books I have read about the JFK assassination and closely related historical research about the JFK time period. What I can tell you for sure is that the information about the JFK assassination ranges all the way from The Road to Dallas published by the Harvard University Press to JFK, Nazis.... published by Adventures Unlimited Press. The latter mostly publishes UFO and Space Alien type of books.
So the JFK researcher has to look for JFK information where he or she can find it. It's impossible to generalize about the credibility of authors or the ratio of fiction to non-fiction in the publications.
Probably the best JFK assassination book is Treason For My Daily Bread which is written as a fictional novel. But there was obvious inside information behind it, revealing some inside connection on the part of the author Lebedev.
And how can Mr. Thorne or anyone else explain away this ridiculous situation with the book by H P Albarelli and Skyhorse?
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's a duck. And this walks like and looks exactly like a cover-up. And the plain truth is that mainstream publishers and corporate bookstores will not publish or offer for sale any new and genuine information about the JFK assassination.
To repeat, the best JFK books that the reader should read, apart from my own, are General Walker...by Dr. Jeffry Caufield and The Skorzeny Papers by Ralph Ganis. And there are probably others like "Prayer Man" and "Harvey and Lee" which also contain valuable information on the forensics.
(And Milo Reech on this site should, by rights, publish his own work-it would be great info).
And Skyhorse is a big corporate outlet and simply will never reveal any major truth about the JFK assassination. That's about as strongly guaranteed as the sun coming up in the east or the earth being round IMHO.
James Lateer