Weisberg's trash-the-critics book 'Inside the Assassination Industry'

[Mark A. O'Blazney]

Another gem from Weisberg's inflammatory volume:

He claims that Walt Brown is a former FBI agent and that Walt found LHO guilty in 'The People vs. Lee Harvey Oswald'

Wrong on every count.

I suppose if we follow Weisberg's logic we could say, "well, Walt is a former Justice Department employee. The FBI falls under the Justice Department. So maybe he was an FBI agent" then we could also say "Weisberg was a former OSS employee. The OSS later became the CIA. So maybe Harold Weisberg was a CIA agent."

Little errors like this cause me to question Harold Weisberg's judgement.

Oh, another thing--Weisberg also claimed under oath (to Jim Garrison) that Billy Lovelady is not the man on the steps in that one Altgens photo, the one Ralph Cinque erroneously claims is Oswald to this day. According to Weisberg, Billy Lovelady was lying about having been there. A juror asked Weisberg why he thought that Lovelady was lying and Weisberg was unable to articulate why he thought that was so.

This book has some of the most inflammatory comments in it towards others in addition to total inaccuracies. Yet, worth reading to get some insight into Weisberg's mind and finding those nuggets that are correct. Requires a lot of parsing and weighing what you know to be fact against what Weisberg writes is fact.

Weisberg thought he was a Jack Anderson. Who Garrison thought he was is still up for grabs.