Reclaiming Parkland

[Jim DiEugenio]

Thanks Joseph.

Anytime I get compared with Sylvia Meagher, it makes my day.

Hope others here like it also.

My worry about all these books being released is that people will not be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.

[Jim DiEugenio]

One of the newer and younger researchers from down under did a review of my new book:

http://www.ctka.net/reviews/reclaiming_parkland.html

I like the newer people who have come into the case.

[Vasilios Vazakas]

Excellent review, congratulations to Hasan. I have ordered the book, although it will take more than a month to get it from Amazon.

[Jim DiEugenio]

When i said newer and younger people in the case, VV is one of the people I meant.

Thanks to all of them. They have injected a lot of vigor,and new insights.

[Vasilios Vazakas]

Thanks Jim
I am just a student, learning from you and the rest of the respected researchers

[Magda Hassan]

The JFK assassination, inconsistencies between the facts and the Warren report, and how PARKLAND handles the event are discussed with RECLAIMING PARKLAND author James DiEugenio. We discuss the magic bullet, shots from all sides, why Lee Harvey Oswald was a patsy, and the "conspiracy truth" about JFK, + how the government has used Hollywood to promote their official stories with Zero Dark Thirty and Tom Hanks are all discussed on Media Mayhem.

GUEST BIO:
Jim DiEugenio is the author of Destiny Betrayed, and most recently, Reclaiming Parkland. He is the co-author and editor of The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X. He co-edited Probe Magazine from 1993-2000 and he was a guest commentator on the anniversary issue of the film JFK re-released by Warner Brothers this year. He lives in Los Angeles and has a MA in Contemporary American History from California State University Northridge.

ADD'L LINKS:
http://www.amazon.com/James-DiEugenio...
http://www.ctka.net/

[Marc Ellis]

A splendid scholarly work and a great read October 11, 2013
By Joseph McBride



"...The great public service DiEugenio provides us today is to do a relentless and deeply knowledgeable autopsy on another one of several attempts to replicate and rescuscitate the discredited Warren Report. This is the thoroughly specious, monstrously long, arrogant, and mendacious work by former prosecutor Bugliosi entitled RECLAIMING HISTORY: THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY. That ridiculous yet pernicious book, first published in 2007 and later whittled down to more readable dimensions, ostensibly served as the basis for the lamentable 2013 movie PARKLAND, a dishonest and shoddy attempt to rewrite Oliver Stone's impressive JFK, which was attacked for the wrong reasons. Critics of Stone claim he falsified evidence to exonerate Lee Harvey Oswald, when he was presenting and dramatizing actual evidence to replace the falsified "so-called evidence" (as Oswald himself called it) used by the Warren Report. Bugliosi, like Gerald Posner and other overrated fabricators, has tried again to hoodwink the public into believing the phony conclusions of the original Report. These disinformation specialists have not succeeded, since as many as eighty percent of the public are sharp enough to disbelieve the official version.


What DiEugenio does so well is to patiently read through Bugliosi's grotesque pile of lies and tear it apart piece by piece, showing the contrary and actual evidence that discredits his myriad errors and omissions. His prose, like Meagher's, is lucid, sober, and yet devastatingly mocking in a subtle way. RECLAIMING PARKLAND is a great read and will be even for someone who hasn't tried to climb through Bugliosi's jungle of prose and notes. DiEugenio is one of the most scholarly writers on the assassination. He has digested the wealth of material that has been revealed in the last two decades since the creation of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. And he has made himself familiar with all the other evidence brought forth by independent researchers in books, magazines, journals, and forums (including his own fine magazine, Probe). He writes entertainingly and incisively and is an excellent teacher about the assassination...."

RP is the best book I've read on the assassination, once he starts going after Bugliosi. It is a point-by-point deconstruction of the prosecutor's case. It's persuasive argument.

Maybe Prof. McBride's book will be the next one I read. But I am really looking forward to some 'LN' reviews of "Reclaiming Parkland". I don't think we'll be seeing many. One prominent LN'er, who JDE has debated in the past, posted an ad hominem screed on another site about RP. But it's clear he hadn't gotten near the book he was ranting about. I can't find any reviews yet by LN reviewers who have read it.

[R.K. Locke]

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/20...spital.php


Online Donors Sought for The Parkland Doctors Film on True Events in JFK's Emergency Room


By Matt Coker Wed., Jul. 29 2015 at 6:02 AM


The shot seen 'round the world
An Irvine company is helping to spread the word about a crowdfunding campaign for an "explosive" new documentary on what really happened inside the Parkland Hospital Trauma Room One as doctors tried to save President John F. Kennedy.

Conservaco, which helps clients with online crowd sourcing and social media campaigns, claims The Parkland Doctors will feature interviews with seven of the surviving doctors who were inside the Dallas hospital emergency room with JFK on Nov. 22, 1963.

"The doctors, for the first time together, provide details of their resuscitation efforts to save the president," reads the pitch. "They recount the ensuing moments when, against Texas law, the president's body was forcibly removed from the hospital, and they describe the irony of less than 48 hours later trying to save the life of the accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. They discuss their fears and reluctance to talk about their involvement in what was one of the darkest days in America's history."

"Everyone in the country has a right to know whatever I happen to be able to tell them because this isn't something personal--it's information that belongs to the entire country," says Dr. Robert McClelland, one of the Parkland doctors, in the crowdfunding pitch.

"When I saw the autopsy pictures, I was very upset that the report and the pictures of the president did not accurately reflect what had transpired and what I had seen myself in Trauma Room One," adds Dr. Joe D. Goldstrich. "Will people feel they have a better understanding of what actually happened in Trauma Room One? Absolutely they will. That's why this documentary is so important."

The other featured physicians are Dr. Donald Seldin, Dr. Ronald Jones, Dr. Kenneth Salyer, Dr. Peter Loeb and Dr. Lawrence Klein.

Those who would like to contribute to making The Parkland Doctors a reality are pointed here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-p...669#/story.

"We are on Indiegogo because we believe that the citizens of the Internet have the power to ignite a public debate on this subject," explains producer Bill Garnet. "While we need your financial support, we also need you to become activists and advocates for the truth."

Garnet vows that every dollar raised by the Indiegogo campaign is going directly toward completing the independent film.

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