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New Book Promises to End JFK Conspiracies
16-May-2007
Written by: Edward Olivier
Former prosecutor has decided to ratify Warren Commission’s conclusions.
Vincent Bugliosi, a former prosecutor, will publish a book hoping to finally end the conspiracy theories about JFK’s death and prove once and for all that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Bugliosi, who prosecuted cult leader Charles Manson and published the story in the best seller, Helter Skelter, spent 21 years researching what he calls "the crime of the century," JFK’s assassination.
Even after so many years, 1,612 pages with 1,128 pages of endnotes and more than 1.5 million words, he admits he never reached the bottom of the evidence pile.
"I took the whole thing on. What I found out was there is no bottom to the pile in the Kennedy assassination. It is a bottomless pit, it is endless. I got sucked into the abyss," Bugliosi said.
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, dedicates a 100-page chapter just to refute the claims made by Oliver Stone in JFK.
"People identify Stone with the conspiracy movement more than anyone else," he said. "Millions of people saw that film. But Stone's movie is one continuous lie.”
A Gallup Poll from 2003 found 75 percent of Americans reject the Warren Commission's findings. Bugliosi hopes to undo the damage done by conspiracy theorists like Oliver Stone, and he has apparently succeeded, according to an early review of the book, by W.W. Norton.
"From this point forward, no reasonable person can argue that Lee Harvey Oswald was innocent; no sane person can take seriously assertions that Kennedy was killed by the CIA, Fidel Castro, the Mob, the Soviets, the Vietnamese, Texas oilmen or his vice president, Lyndon B. Johnson," the Los Angeles Times wrote. "Bugliosi has definitively explained the murder that recalibrated modern America. It is a book for the ages."
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