Assassinations Books

Stern tells his story as though he were writing a novel, complete with dialogue and imagined scenes between his "characters." As such his book will be quite useless to conventional researchers, however, his narrative is certainly entertaining and helps to show the evolving 20th century misconceptions about the Lincoln assassination and John Wilkes Booth.

Kara Sowles & Suzanne Davies

Although I disagree with the religious views of the author, being an evolutionist and all, I disliked this book for other reasons. It really tried to shortcut medical procedures by using G-d to explain it. Obviously, this doesn't just happen to conservative Republicans, it also happens to liberal Democrats, like me. I don't think,"Because G-d did it," is a viable explanation scientifically or medically.

As the Reich began to disintigrate in the autumn of 1944, Himmler set up the Werewolves to spread terror and destruction behind allied lines. They are not known to have achieved much, although they did assassinate the mayor of Aachen (who surrendered to the Americans), decapitate some GIs with tripwires and pour sugar into some Russian petrol tanks. Danish born author Ib Melchior served in US army counterintelligence during world war two, and has adopted a fictional approach to telling the Werewolf story. He says, however, it is based on fact. The most sensational claim is that there was a nazi plot to asassinate Eisenhower. The book is a well paced read from both the US and the German perspective. However, given that the events are in April 1945, there is remarkably little atmosphere of Gotterdammerung. And there are some historical mistakes. His claim that the SS were gassing and burning Jews at Dachau(!)at this late stage of the war is certainly mythical. The book was originally published in 1972, but the new 2000 edition has a more recent prologue. The epilogue contains a translated account of original Werewolf inspired documents. The organization may have failed - Germany was already in chaos - but the intentions were deadly serious.

I had anticipated this book, and to say I was disappointed would be an understatement. Corfe's earlier book on the subject was very shallow and I expected Moloney's book to be more insightful. Having read the prosecution's testimony, I became aware that the Crown desperately wanted to connect the American Clan-na-Gael to the Irish Invincibles. This was because of the dynamite campaign the C-n-G ran in England. Several American newspaper reporters who heard Carey's testimony in court felted that Carey's testimony was staged and rehearsed--nothing from Mr. Molony. Molony aalso used the English edition of Tynan's book for reference. Any serious scholar knows the English edition was abridged--the American edition is the more revealing. The Irish-American newspaper sketch of O'Donnell (who killed Carey) mentioned that O'Donnell spent much of his time in Philadelphia. Philadelphia and NYC were the main headquarters of the Clan-na-Gael. "Dynamite" Luke Dillon, a former American soldier, trips to lived in Philadelphia and made two successful missions to England during the dynamite campaign. Along with O'Donovan Rossa, Dillon had a clear Philadelphia connection. And Philadelphia was not so infiltrated by English agents. So was O'Donnell's murder a mission or an accident? Mr. Molony, the Fenian Brotherhood of America was moribund by 1880 and ecliped by the Clan-na-Gael....

This book is an expert treatise on the Roy Moody case. Any person who is interested in Explosive Investigations would find this book a compelling read. Several photogrgaphs, including device xrays are included. It would be a good used reference book for a library on the subject.

In my opinion, there were two overwhelming news events in the United States in the twentieth century, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the assassination of President Kennedy. Both were events that were stunning, unexpected and literally brought the nation to a halt. The Kennedy assassination has also never been thoroughly resolved, over four decades later, conspiracy theories abound and I am sick of seeing the "second shooter" being used as a plot device in novels. In this atmosphere, young children need to learn exactly what took place that terrible day and the aftermath, when Oswald himself was shot.
This is a good book about the assassination, although why the publishers chose to use washed out images rather than actual photos is something I do not understand. The images of Kennedy, Jackie, the day in Dallas and the funeral are so strikingly moving that not using them dramatically lower the quality of the book.

This copy seems to be about 25% shorter than the original. The Original had autopsy photos of JFK And a lot more details of who was involved in the murder & why it was committed.

After becoming frustrated about the Warren Commission's refusal to acknowledge the truth that this writer saw Jack Ruby at Parkland Hospital shortly after President Kennedy was shot, he set out to find out the real facts about this gangster, police informer, strip club owner, general bad character wherever he happened to be. He delved into the sinister world of Jack Ruby to see why he was allowed to get away with murder. He discovers the activities in the weekend leading up to his shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald and possible reasons for his doing so. One of the doctors who testified and got Ruby off has on his office wall a large phto of Jack Ruby shooting shackled Oswald as the police were getting ready to transport him to the courthouse.

Ruby had access to the underground garage where the accused would be placed in the police vehicle, and was seen and acknowledged by several policemen wh did not ask him for ID, as they knew him well and were used to having him hang around when anything exciting was happening.

Kantor had known Ruby since the days he worked at a Dallas newspaper. At the hospital, he reports in his other book I reviewed about the conspiracy, he called him by name and wrote him a warm, personal note from jail in November, 1962. At the time of the assassination Seth Kantor was one of the White House correspondents who was directly behind the open top car where the president's party waved to spectators in the press bus of the presidential motorcade. He was a pivotal witness to history and was vindicated by a later conclusion by the government. He died in 1996, satisfied that he had informed the American public as to what really happen on November 22 and why.

A somewhat disjointed history of Australian policing in the 1980's. A sequel will show that a supect has now been convicted.

This is more the wrong book. Ok the story was not that bad, it moves fast and there is a lot of action, but it is a little thin. The author did not spend enough quality time working on the characters, why they did what the did etc. If you read a number of books in the genre you were guessing the end of the book about a quarter of the way in. The author really tries to get a Clancy type converging subplot structure but it seems forced, it almost aggravated me with the hard cuts from one to the next. There is not a lot of subtly in this book. It does provide a story that is at least average.