Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy

Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy

The Warren commission's conclusions were all wrong. This book sheds a little bit more light into the investigation. If it was me, I would reopen the investigation right now and not wait 33 years until 2038, that's just too long to wait for the truth.

Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy

I already have a jump start on 11/22/2039. If this book does anything, it does an excellent job of revealing the truth. The Warren Commision's conclusions were all wrong. This is because Kennedy's head jerked backward, not forward as the commission incorrectly stated.

A Definitive Sourcebook

I echo the sentiments of others who have favorably reviewed this book and would add that it should be used as a reference source or companion while evaluating other sources. The research is both solid and exhaustive, as are the annotations. This book is devoid of the outlandish, implausible theories found in other sources. Nor is Marrs a Warren Commission apologist -- the other extreme. In true journalistic fashion, this work presents documented facts and eyewitness testimony and allows readers to decide for themselves.

Too Much Taken Too Far

Jim Marrs, like most critics of the Warren Report, asserts that the Commission was selective with its evidence, vague about interpreting testimony, and filled with innuendoes that have little basis in reality. Unfortunately, many books objecting to the Commission's findings employ the same tactics and are therefore guilty of the same offenses. And this book is one of the biggest offenders. Each of the short sections focuses on one of the unsettling and unresloved aspects of the tragedy of 11/22/63 that doesn't fit into the Warren Report's findings, and impulsively indicts someone as being a conspirator. When I first read this book back in the early 90's it had a peculiar effect on me. I would finish a section and say, 'Ah! So it was the Mafia!' Only to finish the next section and say, 'Ah! So it was the Cubans!' The next section had me going, 'Ah! Rogue government agencies working with both elements did it!' And so on... Then one section, out of left field, described the wild moodswings of the New York Stock Exchange on the days immediately before the assassination. And I asked myself, 'Wait a minute. Am I supposed to believe that Charles Schwab was involved, too?' Come on. I read the rest of the book with the same skepticism I'd read the Warren Report years earlier. I tried re-reading CROSSFIRE earlier this year and I put it down almost immediately; that's what prompted me to write this review. I do believe there was a conspiracy of some kind. (Gerald Posner's tantrum, CASE CLOSED, only further convinced me that the case is still, indeed, very much open.) But the plot couldn't have involved every right wing group, every government agency, Dallas cops, Corsicans, KGB, Cubans, and the Vinnie 'Big Nose' Goombatz crime family. Unfortunately, the trail to the truth about the assassination is getting darker, colder and lonelier with each passing year. Long ago it had slipped from current events to history: several other assassinations, conspiracies, and tragedies (like 9/11) only relegated the JFK murder further into the shadows of distant memory and, almost, irrelevance. Stick with Josiah Thompson's SIX SECONDS IN DALLAS, if you can find it, and just about anything by Edward J. Epstein for a glimpse into this impenetrable event. Skip this mess.

Conspiracies

This is by far, the most interesting and entertaining, and informative book about the assasination I have ever read. Please check this one out.

A Complete Investigation

If you ever wondered who was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy I urge you to read this book. A thorough look at all of the evidence, theories, mistakes and inconsistancies involved with the crime of the century. After presenting a theory, the author tests its validity and relevancy, until finally proposing his own articulate theory.

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