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"ASSASSINATION SCIENCE is a watershed. Past and future assassination studies will have to be read through the painstakingly logical lens with which it scrutinizes the murder of John Kennedy. The contributors collectively offer an exhaustively documented and tightly reasoned argument bound to give the most loyal defender of the Warren Commissioners or Gerald Posner pause for thought. There is no sentimentalism or sensationalism here, even though the web of bureaucratic roadblocks and deceit encountered by Fetzer in his investigations would make for an exciting thriller. Instead, the cool clinical breeze of rigorous thinking blows throughout." --Kerry Walters, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Gettysburg College |
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| "ASSASSINATION SCIENCE -particularly Dr. David Mantik's chapter on the Zapruder film-constitutes a significant addition to the literature on the JFK assassination. Those who believe that the Zapruder film (characterized by some as the closest thing to 'absolute truth' when it comes to the shooting) is unimpeachable are in for a surprise. In addition, the publication of certain documents (such as the full text of the White House transcript of the Dallas doctors' 11/22/63 press conference), as well as Fetzer's musings about what is knowable and the record of his jousting with the establishment (from the New York Times to the Justice Department) all make interesting reading." --David S. Lifton, Author of BEST EVIDENCE |
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| "Although certain to provoke further controversy, this book supplies important scientific assessments of the medical evidence laid before the Warren Commission, together with a valuable narrative account of the American Medical Association's entry into this contentious field. I was particularly gripped by compelling new arguments that the Zapruder film had been altered along with related documentation concerning the Warren Commission's re-enactment of the shooting in Dealey Plaza." --Peter Dale Scott, Author of DEEP POLITICS AND THE DEATH OF JFK. |
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| "Every serious student of the Kennedy assassination should read this excellent compilation of articles, which disssect and destroy The Warren Commission Report in a meticulous, objective, and analytical manner. The authors are all accomplished professionals and their investigative studies unquestionably shift the evidentiary burden to those who through ignorance, naiveté, or conscious pro-government bias continue to defend The Warren Commission Report, the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people." --Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D., Past President, American Academy of Forensic Sciences |
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"This is an extremely technical book on aspects of the Kennedy assassination and therefore probably for buffs only, though the accumulation of carefully researched detail will impress those with an open mind. Fetzer, a professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, takes the position that thorough and disinterested scientific research cannot but conclude that more than one assassin was involved. He asserts that attempts were made to falsify the president's autopsy records, and that the Zapruder film of the assassination was tampered with when it was in government hands, both in an effort to eliminate evidence of a second shooter. He offers detailed papers by, among others, Charles Crenshaw, the doctor who treated the president immediately before he died, and by David Livingston, a brain surgeon [NOTE: here the author conflates the names of David Mantik and Robert B. Livingston], and bitterly attacks the Journal of the American Medical Association, which, he charges, became an apologist for the lone assassin theory. The discussion of the Zapruder film is especially noteworthy, and the book is marred only by reproductions of Fetzer's many letters of protest to the Justice Department, the New York Times and everyone else he felt distorted the truth" (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, 13 October 1997). |