recent book on JFK assassination

[Dayne Goodwin <dayneg@xxxxxxxx>]

_Murder in Dealey Plaza: What We Know Now that We Didn't Know Then about
the Death of JFK_  ed. by James H. Fetzer, Catfeet Press, Chicago, 2000

        James H. Fetzer, PhD., University of Minnesota, Duluth;
        A.B. _magna cum laude_ Princeton University; PhD. History and
        Philosophy of Science, Indiana U.  Fetzer has published 20 books
        and more than 100 articles in philosophy of science and on the
        theoretical foundations of computer science, artificial
        intelligence, and cognitive science.  Fetzer edited _Assassination
        Science_(1998).

Preface: "Although you would not know it from reading it in your daily
newspaper, watching in on the evening news, or hearing it from the federal
government, during the past decade - especially since 1992 - enormous
advances have been made in unraveling one of the greatest crimes of our
time, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.  The murder was a
state offense for which no one has ever been convicted.  After more than
35 years, many Americans tend to think what happened will never be known
and there is nothing new to learn.  That opinion may be widely held, but
it is also completely wrong.  We know vastly more now than we ever have
before, and we are learning more every day.  What happened to this nation
on 22 November 1963 occurred as a result of a meticulously executed
conspiracy, whose character was concealed by a massive cover-up.

        "Indeed, unraveling the cover-up has provided an access route to
understanding the conspiracy, which deprived the American people of their
democratically-elected leader.  A research group whose members came
together in shared outrage over the blatant abuse of a leading medical
journal in a crude but effective effort to perpetuate the cover-up - with
the complicity of our nation's press - has discovered that JFK autopsy
X-rays have been fabricated, autopsy photographs have been distorted or
destroyed, the brain seen in official diagrams and photographs belongs to
someone other than JFK, the autopsy report was a sham, and a great deal of
the photographic record, including the Zapruder film of the assassination,
has been edited by means of sophisticated techniques.

        "We have made strenuous efforts to bring these findings to the
attention of the public, including repeated communications with the _New
York Times_, ABC News, and the U.S. Department of Justice, but to no
avail, as we have documented in _Assassination Science_(1998), a
collection of studies devoted to placing research on the death of JFK upon
an objective and scientific foundation(Appendix A).  The authors whose
work appears there include a world authority on the human brain who is
also an expert on wound ballistics (who has confirmed the substitution of
someone else's brain for that of JFK); a PhD. in physics who is also board
certified in radiation oncology (who has verified the fabrication of JFK
autopsy X-rays); and several experts on various aspects of the
photographic record (who have found detailed evidence of film and photo
alteration).

        As a professional philosopher and former Marine Corps officer, I
have served as a catalytic agent by nurturing, promoting and directing
many of these efforts, such as by moderating a press conference in New
York City on 18 November, 1993, during which important medical findings
were presented; by organizing a symposium on the alteration of the
Zapruder film for a national convention on 21-22 November 1996; and by
conducting the first professional conference on the death of JFK on a
major campus at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 14-16 May 1998.
It has been my great pleasure to work with the most highly qualified
individuals to ever study the assassination of JFK and I welcome the
opportunity to advance their publication.

        "The present volume extends and deepens our past findings by
taking advantage of new evidence provided by the release of more than
60,000 documents and records by the Assassinations Records Review Board
(ARRB), an entity of five persons created by Congress in the wake of the
interest in this case rekindled by Oliver Stone's film, _JFK_, just as the
House Select Committee on Assassinations' (HSCA) reinvestigation of
1977-78 had been incited by a television broadcast of the Zapruder film.
The evidence to which we have now had access not only substantiates our
previous findings but also enables us to understand in rather precise
detail how the cover-up was conducted.
        . . . "

Two of the blurbs on back cover:

        "A rich and fresh collection of fascinating and darkly compelling
revelations, demonstrating beyond any doubt the existence of conspiracy
and cover-up behind the JFK assassination."
        Michael Parenti, Author of _History as Mystery_ and _To Kill a
        Nation_

"_Murder in Dealey Plaza_" is a deeply disturbing book which documents the
deceit and deception that marked the government's handling of the evidence
in the Kennedy assassination.  The authors, all highly skilled
professionals, describe the cover-up, from the falsification of the
autopsy results to the alteration of the Zapruder film.  Anyone who reads
this work will be appalled by the systematic distortion of the truth -
that JFK died as the result of a conspiracy - by certain officials of the
U.S. government."
        Michael L. Kurtz, Author of _Crime of the Century: The Kennedy
Assassination from a Historian's Perspective_