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Misplaced Loyalties provides new, first-hand evidence in the assassinations of Marilyn Monroe and President John Kennedy, based on the testimony of a CIA scientist who worked in an assassinations lab in Upstate New York. Victor Justice takes this shocking new evidence of foreknowledge of the JFK assassination, and builds a portrayal of the people, the motives and the methods that resulted in the tumultuous history of the 1960s, that still affects us today.
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unconvincing.......2007-10-17
This book was enertaining, but unbelievable. Of course, the Kennedy part may have more convincing if the author had actually gotten the date of Marilyn Monroe's death correct. Pretty much a waste of time.
Bizarre but interesting.......2007-09-27
This book is a strange hybrid of fact, fiction, research and imagination, and unfortunately it blurs the lines between them all a good deal more than it should. It's fine to imagine what Bobby Kennedy "might" have said to his wife about Marilyn Monroe (good sleazy fun), but the book doesn't take any greater pains to prove whether any of its "facts" are true either. Do you care? Not if you're reading the book as fiction, but then one gets to long for all those pesky novelist's tricks like narrative, description, realistic dialogue, and psychological insight.
I'm afraid the book comes up short either as a full-blown novel or as a serious work if history, but hey, it's still great guilty fun. Read it for titillation and you won't be disappointed!
...maybe JFK just needed to be removed/assassinated.......2007-06-30
Similar to "Gun of Dallas" by Herman. Connects the dots and ties all the strings together; however, some of the dots and strings are hazy. All the players are there; Jim Files, Mac Wallace, Sergio Arcacha Smith, the Umbrella man, LBJ & Nixon. Premise seems to be that JCS and government agencies belives JFK was a threat to National Security; due to his pillow-talk with all his mistress,and his peace initiatives toward Russia. All and all, not a bad book.
Don't waste time and energy.......2007-06-22
Yet another "author" wastes time on speculation, rumour and rubbish. He does not have an interview with the grassy knoll shooter for the simple reason that there was no shooter from the grassy knoll.
President Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone; Marilyn died of an accidental overdose and Senator Kennedy was shot by Sirhan Sirhan acting alone.
Fasinating .......2006-08-09
I could not put this book down. It corresponded with everything I have previously reviewed on web sites.
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Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s murder.
Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing Kennedy. A Farewell to Justice reveals that Oswald, no Marxist, was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with U.S. Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison’s investigation reached the highest levels of the U.S. government. Garrison interviewed various individuals involved in the assassination, ranging from Clay Shaw and CIA contract employee David Ferrie to a Marine cohort of Oswald named Kerry Thornley, who at the very least was a Defense Intelligence Agency asset. Garrison’s suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, interviewed here for the first time by the author.
Building upon Garrison’s effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies’ roles in both a president’s assassination and its cover-up, set in motion well before the actual events of November 22, 1963.
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Not Even Fun.......2007-08-16
The Warren Commission was right and Jim Garrison was wrong; we know that. However, I still read this kind of stuff for the fun of it. And in this case, it was still money ill-spent. And, I don't care how many of you find this post useful.
Best book on JFK Assassination........2007-06-11
This is the book to read on JFK. Forget the disinformation campaign against Joan Mellen. The book is carefully referenced, fairly well-written, and details one of the most important history lessons of our day. Who killed JFK? Read this and find out how the CIA, FBI, and other government agencies conspired to eliminate a democratically elected president of the U.S.
Totally redeems Garrison, but...........2007-03-31
When I first ordered this book now nearly two years ago I was so excited to read it. And for the most part I loved the book. Joan Mellen proves that Garrsion was right all along. (But I already knew that). And the portions on Garrison are so good that this book is definately worth getting. That said two pieces of her "evidence" were very troubling to me.
First, that RFK sent CIA stooge Walter Sheridan to sabotage the Garrison investigation. I know that Ms. Mellen believes Bobby was killed by a conspiracy, (from personal communications with her), so it makes no sense that Bobby would try to sabotage the only true investigation into the murder of his brother. (When we all know that it was the CIA and FBI who sabotaged Garrison).
The second problem I had with this book is the old CIA-disinformation chestnut that the brothers Kennedy were trying to kill Castro. Her proof of this comes from a man named Angelo Murgado. Most of the serious researchers on this case who I know I know did not find any of this credible. I know that Ms. Mellen really believes Murgado. But Ms. Mellen also knows that that JFK was conducting secret plans to meet with Castro and restore relations with Cuba, literally on the eve of Dallas. So plans to kill Castro, which we know the CIA to be engaged in, did not include the Kennedy brothers. Who lead Ms Mellen to Murgado? That most unreliable of sources Gerry Hemming.
Garrison expert Jim DiEugenio has done an excellent review of this book, which I recommend. Ms. Mellen called it mean- spirited but I disagree.
I also thought we could have done without the sex in this book.
I still recommend reading AFTJ for the updated information on Garrison's case. It actually brought me to tears. And I agree with her title. Garrison's case should have changed history. But we have a press that is controlled by the CIA (google "Operation Mockingbird").
Thankfully the net is a treasure trove of information on this case. (Beware of McAdams tho!)
And forums like John Simkin's "JFK Assassination Debate" a subsection of his Education forum allows people interested in this case from all over the world to converse with each other. The thread there on this book is lively and informative. Ms. Mellen put many years of work into this book- it's well worth reading.
Attorney Dawn Meredith
Austin, Tx.
This book is Terrible and I should know.......2006-09-11
Author Joan Mellen asked me if she could interview me for a book on Jim Garrison, the former DA of New Orleans who investigated the assassination of JFK. I worked for Garrison as a photo-analyst. Joan Mellen spent hours interviewing me in my home. I gave her information that had never been seen or revealed. She distorted the information and attacked me on a personal level though she never indicated that she was going to do that, I suppose because she thought I wouldn't grant her an interview. While I respected and admired Garrison's work, Mellen attributed to me things I never said. She annotated some of her statements but not some that were attacks on me. How serious can you take a book written by someone so irresponsibly?
Proves Main Thesis Of Oliver Stone's JFK.......2006-08-03
This book & Ultimate Sacrifice take us further than ever before in laying out the individuals from multiple sources who killed our President.When Oliver Stone caught so much heat for his film JFK, many claimed Clay Shaw and David Ferrie were innocent men. I don't think too many people will say that after reading this book. The evidence is overwhelming Shaw, ferrie, Banister and Oswald not only knew each other, but worked together on Anti-Castro activities.. Although Garrison defnitely had a stronger case against Ferrie than Shaw, when ferrie died a few days after the Garrison investigation was made public, it was either give up the case or go after Shaw. At the time of the trial Shaw could say he was never employed by The CIA & garrison could not obtain any verification of his employment. This book proves Shaw not only lied about his employer & was not just a businessman being debriefed by the CIA, but rather he had the highest of 6 clearances and recruited others to be CIA Assets. He also lied about his relationships with Ferrie and Oswald- there are some 8-10 witnessess who knew Oswald worked for Banister & about the same number who saw Shaw, Ferrie and Oswald in Clnton & Jackson La.This is explained in convincing detail.To think the media assets of the major publications went out of their way to trash Garrison and defend depraved human sewage like Shaw and Ferrie who killed our President is, and will always be pathetic.My only problem with garrison Is don't have any doubts that Marcello was involved and this aspect you could knock Garrison and is much better explained in Ultimate Sacifice, however The main thesis of Stone's film is correct - JFK was pulling out of Vietnam-NSAM 263 was a direct order to pull out the troops by the fall of 65, and there was a conspiracy afoot in New Orleans & other places to remove JFK-it hardly matters if Oswald fired at JFK or not since the single bullet theory, and headshot from the rear deny all common sense, the best witnessess, and what we see on the Zapruder film.
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There's no question that nowadays, racial issues pose one of the biggest obstacles to the fair workings of our criminal justice system, but exactly how these issues come into play and what to do about them is a subtler matter. In this book, Kennedy, a Harvard Law School professor who is black, applies his precise command of the relevant legal language and legal background to explain and evaluate for the general reader various current ideas about how race is and should be involved in meting out criminal justice. His basic stance is that liberals and conservatives have more common ground on race and law than it seems at first, and that blacks have suffered more from being underprotected by law enforcement than from being mistreated as suspects or defendants, even though it is the latter allegation that seems to draw the most attention from those who view the courts through racial lenses.
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Winner of the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Grand Prize
"An original, wise and courageous work that moves beyond sterile arguments and lifts the discussion of race and justice to a new and more hopeful level."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
In this groundbreaking, powerfully reasoned, lucid work that is certain to provoke controversy, Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy takes on a highly complex issue in a way that no one has before. Kennedy uncovers the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals, probing allegations that blacks are victimized on a widespread basis by racially discriminatory prosecutions and punishments, but he also engages the debate over the wisdom and legality of using racial criteria in jury selection. He analyzes the responses of the legal system to accusations that appeals to racial prejudice have rendered trials unfair, and examines the idea that, under certain circumstances, members of one race are statistically more likely to be involved in crime than members of another.
"An admirable, courageous, and meticulously fair and honest book."--New York Times Book Review
"This book should be a standard for all law students."--Boston Globe
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Race, Crime, and the Law.......2006-08-07
Excellent review of sensitive issues regarding race, ethnicity, and the criminal justice system!
A Work that delves deeply into the topic.......2003-05-21
This lucid work of kennedy's is a comprehensive and beautifully written examination of race and its ralation to the criminal justice system and the law. Kennedy's arguments are superb, and he supports everything that he says with hard evidence, leaving his sound biases and premises the only things left to be considered. Kennedy is, even in this last matter, careful to make this book an exploration rather than a persuasion, and while he does make arguements and try to persuade the reader, he does not condemn his opposition and he certainly does not limit the scope of his thinking in any way possibly detrimental to the flow of ideas.
Tells it like it is.......2001-12-01
Schools in America have always taught us with blindfolds on. It's up to the American people, [mainly people of color] to find the truth. The negative race relation state that America is today, is a direct result of the pre 1900's. Randall Kennedy shows us in this book how slanted the laws were during slavery times and what do you know, things haven't changed all that much.
intelligent discussion on race-law issues BASED ON FACTS.......2001-07-24
1st & foremost, this is the BEST book i've read in a long time. Kennedy acheives what Gates & West do NOT ... an intelligent discourse on important issues currently facing racial minorities that is rooted in fact. he offers facts & precedent to support his opinions, views & hypothesis ... as opposed to rhetoric supported by rhetoric.
the book dissects the historical perversion of criminal justice/law enforcement to perpetuate the oppression of racial minorites. then it uses this historical context/premise to draw a picture of the current state of the relationship/role of the criminal justice system & law enforcement in minority communities. The book has brilliant sections on racial profiling, the war on drugs and the death penalty. each of these issues are dissected from a viewpoint of the critical legal issues ... and Kennedy finds time to interject his own opinion, SUPPORTED BY FACTS. Kennedy presents his material in a logical & organized mannner ... but not always concise. although i'm not a lawyer, it felt very much like a legal brief at times ... but it was still easy to read.
... highly, highly recommended, although it is a bit thick.
A great book!.......2000-04-30
As a graduate student in criminal justice - I find it enjoyable to read subjects that directly impact my course of studies and my profession. Race, Crime and the Law is one of the few books that I would STRONGLY recommend to every criminal justice, sociology and law student. In fact, I would recommend this book to anyone concerned with the current state of race relations within the United States. Kennedy's style and in your face writing is powerful and persuasive. This book is not written in the typical, arrogant style of many professors. Instead Kennedy writes this book for the masses.
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On the Borders of Crime: Conflict Management and Criminology
Leslie W. Kennedy
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Peer inside the White House as Presidents Kennedy and Johnson grapple with racial injustice in America.
This remarkable book is composed of actual transcriptsmost never before publishedfrom the secret recordings that Presidents Kennedy and Johnson made of White House meetings and telephone conversations between the violent crisis in 1962, when James Meredith attempted to enroll at the all-white University of Mississippi, and the groundbreaking passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Setting these transcripts within an historical narrative, Jonathan Rosenberg and Zachary Karabell present the story of America's struggle for racial equality during two tumultuous years.
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice brings the reader into the room as Kennedy argues with Mississippi governor Ross Barnett and the white business leaders of Birmingham, Alabama, and as Johnson makes late-night phone calls to Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP head Roy Wilkins, and Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham. As fly-on-the-wall history, this book gives us an unprecedented grasp of the way the White House affected civil rights history and consequently transformed America. Part of the Presidential Recordings Project, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia, General Editors: Ernest May and Philip Zelikow.
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Very Informative, but dry........2003-10-28
This text is great for real history buffs and anyone looking for more information on the civil rights movement.
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- Engrossing, but not what I'd expected
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- Surely Surly Sirhan
- A Must Read
- READ THIS BOOK. YOU'LL LOVE IT!
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Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan Sirhan, and the Failure of American Justice
William Klaber , and
Philip H. Melanson
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Customer Reviews:
Engrossing, but not what I'd expected.......2007-07-26
Mr. Klaber's book is well-written, engrossing, and thought-provoking. At its core, however, it is less about what the common reader thinks of as the "case" of the RFK murder than it is centered strongly on the legal proceedings themselves. He brings out tantalizing bits of evidence, but does not follow any of them to their end points. In the end, while being more fully aware of the possibility of Sirhan's innocence, the reader has little to go on in terms of discovering the real perpetrator(s) or the second gunman.
A returning student's review.......2002-12-10
This book was extremely enlightening and engrossing. It reveals many startling details about an assassination that in the public's mind is an open and shut case. This book will make you re-examine what you think you know about the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. It is a fascinating and disturbing look into the mishandling of the investigation as well as the trial of Sirhan Sirhan.
Surely Surly Sirhan.......2001-09-08
Klaber stands alone in his remarkable attention to detail and his insightful intuition as he dissects Sirhan, the assassination and all the people and events surrounding it. Investigative journalism at its finest; with no sides taken, no leaf unturned/unflipped/unanalyzed and certainly no minds unchallenged.
Klaber's wired-in work makes all the others' works putter off into nattering nabobs of nonsensical noise as he delicately delves into this June 4, 1968 seminal tragedy. Klaber kooks the krime and katers to only the most diskriminating kats.
What's Klaber writing about now?
A Must Read.......2000-05-05
I literally tore through this book. I couldn't put it down. Fascinating and frustrating with regards to the failure of the justice system.
READ THIS BOOK. YOU'LL LOVE IT!.......1999-04-21
I thought this book was a great read. Not only was the book educational, it was also a very entertaining read. I dont think I have ever read such an entertaining non-fiction book in my life. The book realy tells it how it is. It lets you know the facts about how crooked our justice system is, and how powerful our government is. I would like to say "Thank you" to Mr. Klaber for writing such an enlightening book. I would now, after reading this book, rate Klaber up there with the other great writers of our time. This book is a must read, five star acomplishment, and possibly one of the best books I have ever read.
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- Excellent study of Blair's growing authoritarianism
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Just Law: The Changing Face of Justice - And Why it Matters to Us All
Helena Kennedy
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A leading left-wing establishment figure confronts the government head-on in this stunning, closely argued challenge to the track record of undermining civil liberties. It is a vivid and provocative survey of the state of law and justice in Britain today.
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Excellent study of Blair's growing authoritarianism.......2004-04-23
In this profound and thoughtful book, Baroness Kennedy defends civil society against the Blair government's growing authoritarianism. She covers a huge range of topics, approaching each with a well-argued point of view. She is never neutral, but never dogmatic either.
On international law, she passionately upholds Britain's common law against the `fallacious ideas that a new hybrid should be created, marrying up European civil law approaches to our common law system without any thought as to the consequences'. She notes that the attack on and occupation of Iraq breached international law, and that the government sought the opinion of one of only two international lawyers who thought the attack legal.
Even before the 9/11 attacks, Blair imposed draconian laws against our freedoms: the Terrorism Act of 2000, for instance, reversed the burden of proof. Since 9/11, Blair has abused the attacks to limit our freedoms yet more. In December 2001, the government gave Home Secretary David Blunkett the power to detain foreign nationals indefinitely without charge or trial: as of May 2003, 13 were thus detained. This arbitrary preventive detention is no better than hostage-taking. Blunkett refused to rule out relying on intelligence obtained by torture in other countries when he decides who to detain. (Incidentally, under the Terrorism Act of 2002 it is an offence to incite or plot the overthrow of a foreign government - why does Iraq come to mind?)
The Criminal Justice Act of 2003 allowed people to be held without charge for interrogation for up to 14 days. Kennedy points out that state terrorism has killed more people than individual terrorism: "Huge attention is given to subversive terrorism, yet in fact the majority of innocent victims of indiscriminate political violence worldwide in the past forty years have been killed by state forces."
The war in Ireland led to broken rules, miscarriages of justice, and the undermining of the whole Irish community. The same is happening with Muslims today: 500 have been arrested, but only four have been charged with a criminal offence.
Kennedy describes what she calls the `legal limbo' in which the US state is holding 660 prisoners of war in cruel and degrading conditions at Guantanamo Bay. But it is not a legal limbo: the US state is illegally detaining them, in ways that breach the US constitution, US law and the Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war.
With the EU's new Eurowarrant, a British citizen can be arrested here for actions not criminal here, on a warrant issued in any EU member country, then deported and held months in prison awaiting trial, as happens all too often in Italy, for example.
Kennedy believes that the government wants to restrict trial by jury because juries are independent and beyond state control. She observes that the government attacks legal aid and legal aid lawyers, that it cut benefits for lone mothers and imposed a pitifully low minimum wage, and that its vaunted family tax credits subsidise low wages.
The government wants to dissolve the rights of the accused, on the pretext of helping the victim. But in criminal courts, the victim is a witness for the state, so `rebalancing' in favour of the victim favours the state. She advocates keeping the double jeopardy rule and opposes the introduction of ID cards. Altering the law to make it easier to convict the guilty also makes it easier to convict the innocent.
On asylum and immigration, Kennedy acknowledges, "We are not in fact bound by treaty to admit genuine refugees if we can find them somewhere else to go, a country other than the one from which they have fled, and one where they will be treated humanely and sympathetically." She opposes `sucking the talent out of developing countries for whom skilled workers are a precious resource'. But she evades the questions of how we put these ideas into practice.
She advocates defending judicial independence against the executive. She opposes the government's wish to let the Prime Minister have the final say in appointing judges to the highest courts.
She is against charging smokers or obese people for treatment: should the NHS only be allowed to treat healthy people? The NHS's duty is to preserve life, not make moral judgements on how life is lived. This is just as true of social security: as she observes, the punitive use of benefits harks back to the Vagrancy Acts of the early 19th century.
She strongly backs prisoner education, a strengthened Probation Service, and the provision of more nursery education, youth clubs, youth workers, sports pitches, gyms and voluntary parenting classes. She supports residential drug rehabilitation centres, and detoxification beds in the NHS. But as she notes, the greatest contribution to crime reduction would be full employment.
Kennedy proposes necessary reforms: take children under 14 out of the criminal justice system; sharpen the crimes of corporate manslaughter and conspiracy to defraud; abolish crown immunity; outlaw the use of DNA without proper consents; end the mandatory life sentence; and apply restorative justice, especially for children, where the offender has to take responsibility for, and put right, what he has done.
In all, this is a sparkling and hard-hitting book, which should be essential reading for all Britain's citizens.
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Anthony Kennedy (Supreme Court Justices)
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