THE AMAZON.COM REVIEWS BELOW ARE FROM SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO HAVE READ A SERIES OF BOOKS THAT SHOULD BE IN EVERY LIBRARY IN THE COUNTRY: DOUG HORNE'S INSIDE THE ARRB, IN FIVE ESSENTIAL AND TRULY PRICELESS VOLUMES.
RESEARCHER BILL KELLY WROTE A NICE PREAMBLE TO POTENTIAL READERS OF THESE BOOKS, BEFORE THEY WERE FINISHED, WHEN HE STATED:
"A sneak preview of Doug's book is chapter 41 of Dick Russell's On The Trail of the JFK Assassins - A Revealing Look at America's Most Infamous Unsolved Crime" (Skyhorse Publishing, NY, 2008). In his last chapter, Dick interviews Doug Horne, and writes about "Two Caskets, Two Autopsies, Two Brain Exams: The Disappearing Evidence."
It is chilling.
BK
WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, THEN, PLEASE READ THESE THREE REVIEWS, AND GET THESE BOOKS, WHICH PROVIDE THE TRUTH IN BIG DOSES THAT JUST MIGHT STOP YOU FROM GAGGING AT WHAT THE HISTORY CHANNEL AND OTHER MAINSTREAM MEDIA WILL BE DELIVERING UP TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC REGARDING LEE HARVEY OSWALD, THE CONSPIRACY (YES, A CONSPIRACY!) AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.
THANK YOU, DOUGLAS HORNE, FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE TRUTH!
THE REVIEWS YOU SHOULDN'T MISS, ABOUT THE BOOKS YOU SHOULDN'T IGNORE:
5.0 out of 5 stars 2nd Generation Lifton-Quality Breakthrough, February 8, 2010
By David Myers (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government's Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK (Volume 1) (Paperback)
Like the author, I was totally mesmerized by David Lifton's book "The Best Evidence" when it was first published in 1981. I had read at least a dozen JKF assassination conspiracy books and felt that Lifton's was the most effective and convincing case and, in retrospect, it had the most influential impact on the case up until the releasing of Oliver Stone's monumental movie on the subject, "JFK". I felt that Stone's movie managed the impossible - to weave together the most important facts and inconsistencies into a generally believable explanation for what happened. Stone seems to have managed to include about 80% of what I considered the most relevant, the most telling, and the most comprehensive set of information about this wide, free-ranging and nation-destroying conspiracy.
So now I have a new hero - the author, Douglas Horne. This review is based only on the first of the five volumes of his report on the ARRB's (Assassination Records Review Board) work - attempting to secure the remaining undestroyed (or un-altered, as well as the obviously altered) documents and evidence that still exist. Douglas Horne is like a second generation conspiracy theorist picking up on the seminal work of David Lifton and progressing it further and in more detail in an attempt to clarify the true workings of the conspiracy, particularly the cover-up (at least in this first of five volumes). He has done a masterful job of first securing a position on the ARRB, then developing a working relationship with his immediate supervisor and finally exerting a major influence on both the selection of people to interview (both under oath and not) and on the direction and focus of the questioning. I can't wait to read the other four volumes and have already ordered them based on my reading of the first volume. This book is probably the most currently definitive work on un-covering the conspiracy and the subsequent cover-up. Bravo Douglas Horne!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Review written by, and posted on behalf of Bob Wilson, January 1, 2010
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Mr. Horne has done an excellent job in his research for the AARB, and
has broken important
new ground. The interview Mr. Horne conducted with Dr. Thornton
Boswell regarding JFK's
wounds is earth-shaking (yet often ignored). Boswell pointed to a
large section of Kennedy's
head being blown out on a model of a human skull when asked to
demonstrate the damage
he had seen at the original autopsy.
Mr. Horne displays courage and depth of insight in many other areas as
well. His work is very
important, and cannot be overlooked in any true search for the truth
in this case.
Mr. Horne digs into the areas that the Posner and Bugliosi types avoid
at all costs. This is a "must have"
for anyone seriously interested in finding out the truth of what
happened to our beloved 35th president.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a break-through must-read evidence-based work/devastating, March 1, 2010
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There has been a library-full of books and almost as many theories about the JFK assassination and two main US Govt inquiries and several smaller ones on aspects of the case but finally it is now proven- note "proven",not speculated or guessed at- beyond all doubt in Doug Hornes devastating 5 new books "Inside the Assassination Records Review Board" (short title) where he became Chief Analyst for military records,that JFK was assassinated in a coup d etat in Nov 63 thus showing that Garrison. the courageous Louisiana DA around whose investigation Oliver Stone based his famous film "JFK", was right way back at the Clay Shaw trial in the late 60s.
The huge strengths of Mr Hornes compellingly-argued and wide-ranging evaluative work are both his intimate knowledge of and his objectivity towards the background evidence,especially the medical evidence, built up over many years, to which has been added an equally detailed knowledge and understanding from released records and new interviews especially from those who took part in JFKs highly compartmentalised autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital which Mr Horne is therefore able to meticulously put together with a minimum of speculation and a maximum of reasoned and logical inference from the known and uncovered facts.In most cases these facts speak for themselves such is the precision, depth and overview of Mr Hornes research and his deep concern and honesty over the evidence itself.Where the evidence is not 100% for any judgment or opinion Mr Horne reaches, and he is right to presume his readership wants such evaluation ,he tells the reader this is so, and always allows the reader space to reach his/her own deductions,true marks of a liberal historian of deep scholarship and personal integrity.
These would be reasons enough to buy these volumes,but the above paragraphs merely scratch the surface of Mr Hornes immense achievement in that with gentleness of touch and with true grace towards those who came before him he has moved on and focused many vital and difficult aspects of the case - too numerous to mention here- which have been floundering over the years and have needed the light and objectivity of a firm redirection and reassessment and more importantly still he has developed and exposed 2 vitally important paradigm shifts/revolutions in the interpretation of evidence, not only of what happened at the autopsy proving- again the word "proving" is used very carefully- that there were 3 casket entries that evening and that the Dallas casket was empty when it travelled from Andrews Airforce Base to the Naval Hospital and in fact the Presidents body arrived there in a bodybag in a cheap shipping container some 30-40 mins earlier than official FBI records have shown ,but also in an elucidation of the most currently contentious aspect of the case, the authenticity of the Zapruder film.
Here Mr Horne moves away from the intricacies of film processing which he has nevertheless mastered towards a highly persuasive tour de force of special visual effects through aerial imaging on an optical printer thus moving the debate into a new orbit,utterly wrongfooting the Zavada Study,and establishing a vital new freshness and relevance,a reevaluation of methodology which has found a close new ally in the specialist Hollywood Research Group ,all experts in film restoration,where initial results are entirely corroborative of the use of special effects ,in particular the use of applied patches to parts of the film,especially to cover JFKs severe rear head wound, evidence of a Grassy Knoll frontal shot,the same wound as seen shortly afterwards by doctors at the Parkland Dallas hospital, but later entirely and perversely contradicted by the 3 pathologists at Bethesda.
Additionally in this Chapter in Vol 4 Mr Horne exposes severe weaknesses in the films chain of custody and reveals two separate film events which took place on successive evenings at the National Photographic Interpretation Centre during the weekend immediately after the assassination,interviewing witnesses who participated separately in these compartmentalised events ,each group acting in complete ignorance of the other event,and persuasively leads the reader through the testimony of a main witness from the 2nd event on the Sunday night of where the film from which he was preparing blow-ups for briefing boards had come from that very night , into a compelling examination of where the aerial imaging was carried out, at a secret CIA facility attached to Kodak in Rochester,which the witnesses from both events said "could do anything" with film.
That these are dynamic and shattering deductions leading us towards a much fuller understanding of the coverup of the JFK assassination is self-evident.That apologists of the official fiction that one lone nut had 2 lucky shots which no expert could ever replicate have been left gasping for breath by Mr Hornes boldness and empirical self-criticism is equally so,their response again being a feeble populism which may continue to fool some,but the truth will out,and Mr Horne has put that truth out there,at serious personal cost , and demands our admiration and sincere gratitude for his labour of love over 13 years.
Liberals who saw 3 of their world leaders ,JFK.MLK and RFK all killed by "lone nuts"over a period of 5 years from 63-68 may now know at least that the first of these, a US President who coolly defused the greatest ever world crisis in Oct 1962,when World War 3 was literally a hairs breadth away,was most certainly not the victim of 2 impossible shots by the patsy Lee Harvey Oswald but indeed was murdered by forces within the National Security State which combined to engineer both a Secret Service stand-down in Elm Street and an autopsy which was far more than merely negligent, as one limited hangout would have us believe, but involved a deliberate suppression of evidence of frontal shots by pathologists who like all the technicians present that evening,except the morticians who provided valuable new evidence to the ARRB, were under military orders and were warned in writing in documents they had to sign that they would be court-martialled "and live to regret it" ,should they ever speak openly about what they had witnessed on that fateful night.
But don't take this writers word for it- read the books and see for yourself whether a Liberal or not
