And there was also ‘CASE OPEN’ in response to ‘Case Closed’ by Harold Weisburg, who I heard speak, and was interesting.
From the Amazon site:
Book Description
No one knows more about the assassination of President Kennedy than Harold Weisberg, so said the FBI in open court. Harold Weisberg - a former OSS and Senate Investigator-wrote and published Whitewash in 1965, the first book criticizing the conclusion of the Warren Commission.
Since then, he has written and published seven books on President Kennedy’s assassination.
Case Open is a book Mr. Weisberg felt compelled to write. He felt a need and determination to set the record straight. In proving that Gerald Posner, in Case Closed, has proven nothing, Mr. Weisberg has proven that President Kennedy was killed by a conspiracy. In analyzing Case Closed, he demonstrates that Gerald Posner has
* Distorted evidence
* Suppressed evidence
* Omitted evidence
* Developed no new evidence
* Omitted sources
* Misappropriated the research of others
* Misled the reader into believing that he had sponsored new scientific computer enhancements.
At best, Gerald Posner has provided a case for the prosecution. Now it is time to present the case for Case Open. Let the American public decide who has presented the stronger case:
Gerald Posner or Harold Weisberg.
Yes, I think Weisberg is one of the leftwingers who promoted the conspiracy theory early on. Make no mistake, the conspiracy theories are ideologically driven. Still it would be interesting to read Weisberg’s book. And I wonder if Posner has answered Weisberg’s criticisms - that would be interesting to hear too.
I recently read an interesting fiction that presented a different view of the Kennedy assassination. Shiva’s Messenger by Russell Twyce