Assassinations Books

Dr. Diane Holloway's new book, The Mind of Oswald, is a breath of fresh air in the JFK assassination literature. As a former FBI agent, attorney, and judge (in fact, I was the presiding judge in the much celebrated case depicted in the recent movie "Boys Don't Cry"), I rely on facts. I am so pleased that someone, and especially a psychologist, has looked at the facts about accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. The facts are what he said and wrote. Then she looked at it from the psychological viewpoint. The psychological approach is much like our approach; the best indicator of future behavior is past behavior. Dr. Holloway, a retired Dallas psychologist, has taken all of Oswald's words and life and tried to look at whether he was the kind of person who would kill a president. It is an excellent approach. I heartily recommend this book and give it a five star rating. Libraries would do well to add this to their list because there is too much crazy conspiracy literature available and the facts are needed about this important tragedy. Judge Robert T. Finn.

Dr. Holloway has done a meticulous job of researching the career of Lee Harvey Oswald and sharing her findings with us. She has several unique perspectives working for her: being in Dallas at the time of the Kennedy assassination; having tested Gen. Edwin Walker, whom Oswald undoubtedly tried to shoot some months before JFK was shot; being a psychologist and thus able to give the reader her expert take on Oswald's capacity for violence. I felt as if I were able to watch Oswald virtually every day of his life right up to the moment he was killed by Jack Ruby. One has to feel a little sorry for Oswald, who never seemed to be happy no matter where he was or what he was doing. He couldn't spell, he lied about his height, he was just such a loser his entire life. Besides the close look at Oswald, Dr. Holloway gives us the historical background--what was happening in the world as Oswald was being Oswald.

Diane Holloway is a retired Dallas psychologist who was involved with the psychological assessment of one of Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination targets, Major General Edwin Walker (when Attorney General Robert Kennedy ordered an evaluation because of Walker's bizarre anti-government activities). Holloway as painstakingly gathered the works of Lee Harvey Oswald over a period of ten years and in The Mind Of Oswald: Accused Assassin Of President John F. Kennedy, incorporates Oswald's letters, diary, book about Russia, miscellaneous papers, notes, address book, job applications, radio interviews, and post-arrest television statements into a remarkable presentation of Oswald and the times leading up to the Kennedy assassination. The Mind Of Oswald is a "must read" for anyone with an interest in the Kennedy assassination, its impact on the American political system, and the controversies that surrounded it then -- and some of which continue to linger in the public mind to this day.

Taylor might as well have written a historical novel. Missouri residents will recognize the places and sites in the story, intelligence officers will recognize the Phineas Priests as the bad guys they really are, and those who serve in personal protection will recognize the strategies, thought processes, and esprit de corps that bonds them in the small elite groups in which they tend to operate. Taylor, who has provided protection for some of the most high profile people in the world, expertly weaves a fast-paced and exciting story of state troopers attempting to keep a vainglorious governor and others from harm in a 911-type attack. The book definitely offers a Saturday afternoon of good reading.

A cult has goals. Some of them are harmless- some of them are self-destructive, but some of them still have far more sinister plots. "Mortal Shield" is the tale of one of these cults, planning on eliminating the governor - and the governor's protectors know of this. The governor and his family, however, just want a normal life without agents blocking them every step of the way . "Mortal Shield" is a grand conflict of three groups of people with very different goals and how all of their intentions clash in an incredibly interesting tale with no clear outcome - "Mortal Shield" is highly recommended for any thriller fan and any library collection collecting them.

Heather Shaw, ForeWord Magazine, May 2008

This is Taylor's first novel, but there's nothing amateur about it. It walks and talks just like SOF (special operation forces). . . . Mortal Shield is a kind of anecdotal manifesto of why some people choose a career where death is not a penalty for failure but the ultimate sacrifice for success. Taylor is at work on a sequel: this is definitely a series that will interest fans of Clancy and Flynn.

Philip H. Melanson is a professor of political science and a specialist in the study of political violence. This book is an authoritative expose of brazen official manipulation of the legal process used to cover-up the conspiracy to kill RFK. The numerous glaring and unanswered questions in this case, with the simplistic official solution, caused the author to research for additional unexamined evidence. He spent many years investigating the facts, interviewed dozens of witnesses, law enforcement officials and other sources, and analyzed hundreds of LAPD and FBI files released by 1991.

Philip H. Melanson provides evidence that Sirhan did not act alone, and, the official investigation authorities (LAPD, FBI) covered up evidence that suggested conspiracy (p.4). He was the first author to have access to most of the existing LAPD files on the case. He and his team found that the LAPD had altered, suppressed, and destroyed vital evidence in the case (p.6).

The investigation assumed a "lone gunman" immediately. The trial was only concerned with Sirhan's state of mind (pp.24-25). The number of shots fired, the bullets matched to the wrong gun, were all skipped over. The LAPD's conclusions, its methods and its competence were not tested in an adversarial proceeding. The tapes of Sirhan's interrogations were never released to the defense. The profound discrepancies and conflicts in the evidence were suppressed or ignored by the LAPD and were never addressed by the judicial process.

What made this case so hot that the 1997 Congressional Investigation wouldn't touch it? Will the assassination of RFK ever be reinvestigated by a Congressional Committee? We've also learned a lot since 1991 about the LAPD and the FBI: the Trial of OJ Simpson, and the Inspector General's report on the FBI. (Read "Tainting Evidence: Inside the FBI Crime Lab Scandals" by Kelly and Wearnes.)

RFK's assassination has been given short shrift by book publishers despite there being just as much evidence of a conspiracy as there is in his brother's murder. Philip Melanson attempts to answer many of the questions in this updated version of a previous work on the subject and succeeds admirably. Melanson will leave no doubt that there was a conspiracy and that the LAPD covered it up.

This is quite possibly the definitive work on the RFK assassination and definitely worth picking up.

I have been a buff at the JFK assassination for years now but never taken any focus on the murder of his brother. But with all the bad things and corrupt politics that have happened these last couple of years, I am starting to have second opinions about important events that have occurred in the last forty years. The RFK assassination is one of them.

There is one thing about the murder that I'm consdering and it is that there was a conspiracy and I think the person that planned it was Lyndon Johnson. And it was no secret that Kennedy hated Johnson and vice versa (read "Mutual Contempt; their feud plays like Hamlet). While some people think he was behind JFK's death (which I don't believe) I believe that he not only was involved in RFK's death but also the death of Martin Luther King because it makes perfect sense: President drops out of the Presidental Election and asks his advisors to take out the two biggest peacekeepers in America while as the "Lame-Duck" President.

I believe that Johnson is hands down the most corrupt President after Kennedy and I think his initals of LBJ should stand for "Lying Bastardly Jackass" which strangely enough is the animal for the Democratic Party. Also, is everyone getting the feeling that George W. Bush is becoming the son that Johnson never had?

There is also another good reason why Johnson got involved: Earlier that year in 1968 Johnson threatening RFK by saying if he ran for President he would drop out. And what did Robert Kennedy do? He ran for President and he dropped out. It also makes sense that Johnson was not only creating a murder, but he was putting on "a show": In front of people (Ambassator Hotel), a hired assassin from a foreign country (Sirham Sirham), female motive only known for wearing a pokadot dress; they were working for Johnson, weren't they? They talk about getting moral values back these days. Sorry, but they used all their lifelines forty years ago when they put those two Kennedy brothers in their graves.

This is the first of several high-level political analyses motivated by a need to better understand the politics that led to both the JFK assassination and the Nixon Watergate Affair. It deploys as the primary theoretical model, C. Wright Mills "Theory of the Power Elite" and the framework in Carroll Quigleys book "Tragedy and Hope."

With these tools, Carl Oglesby posits an interesting thesis: that JFKs assassination, instead of being a random act by a lone nut was in fact a carefully planned and professional executed ongoing coup d' etat a la Americaine, a not so silent coup by the same forces responsible for the murders of JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X and possibly the demise and eventual destruction of the billionaire Howard Hughes.

What all of these events had in common was that they were links in a chain designed to replace one set of power elite (members of the old moneyed "peace promoting" Eastern Yankee Establishment) with another (the Nuevo Riche and newly arrived, "progress through war" Western Cowboys). Thus it is argued here that the events connecting Dallas, Memphis, Watergate and the demise of the Hughes empire, are but threads in a common fabric, growing and evolving directly out of the systematic corruption of American politics and out of contemporary political realities.

Altogether it is thus a seductive and believable theory that says as much about American political realities as it does about the events of Dallas, LA, Memphis and NY themselves. What Oglesby tries to do, and succeeds at it brilliantly, is expose the almost organic level of corruption in the structure of the political process that led to the events in Dallas and Watergate. When the connections linking these two are examined in detail, and are traced backwards in time to their origins, they extend not just back to CIA dirty tricks to get rid of Castro, or to the Cuban rum and gun-running days of Batista, or for that matter, even to the unholy and corrupt pre-war alliance forged by FDR between Meyer Lanksys wing of the mob and the USG, but they go all the way back to the competing North-South power factions emerging in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Left unchecked, except by the tug of war being waged in the under currents of the competing interests of the power elite, this corruption eventually led to the ceding of power to what we have come to recognize as the "Secret National Security State." It is precisely this melding of corruption and the built in power of the national security state that General Eisenhower had warns us about in his farewell address. And in both the JFK assassination and the Watergate Affair. it seems (at least to Oglesby) that those events were a simple case of "the buzzards coming home to roost:" In short, the machinations of competing factions within the Secret National Security State eventually took on a life of their own.

Of all the books on the JFK assassination one is likely to read, this is one of the few that gets directly at the heart of the matter. And even though it deals confidently and adequately with the facts surrounding both the JFK assassination and the Watergate Affair, which are important in and of themselves, it is not just about the discrete facts of those events, but about what it means for the republic when two of our elected Presidents are brought down by clandestine and hidden powers that undermine and substitute a Secret National Security State for our democracy.

The book seeks to answer the question: How could these things have happened in a self-respecting democracy? What does it means when "We the People" can go on pretending that even though two coup d' etats occurred before our very eyes, that life goes on behind our collective denial as if nothing has really happened? Ultimately, these questions are more important than who and how JFK was killed.

Anyone who doubts that answering these two questions is Oglesby ultimate aim should read first the epilogue, Chapter 9, entitled "Who Killed Kennedy?" then go back and read the rest of the book. Chapter 9 is an essay so chilling it will make any self-respecting democrat, republican or independents hair stand on its head. It is the single most chilling chapter of any book on American democracy one is ever likely to read.

What Oglesby tells us in this brilliantly written epilogue is that when a President bleeds, whether through assassination or by being hounded out of office, it is our solemn duty to clean up the blood. We have a choice in this unpleasant task: We can exercise the default option and sleep in the blood as we have done for the last forty five years, pretending that sleeping in blood is the new reality. Or to use John Deans metaphor in the advice he gave to President Nixon, we can pretend that the cancer on the Presidency has not finally metastasized and now has infected us all. Or we can chose the toughest option of all, which is to pro-actively defend the republic and its future against the bureaucratized criminally corrupt cabals that felled two Presidents and appears to be using its unchecked power under the secrecy of the National Security State to completely replace our democratic form of government. In either case, by what we do or dont do, we have made a choice about what kind of democracy we are willing to settle for. If we choose not to fight, as we apparently have done, then the war of competing corrupt and powerful elites going on above our heads will continue unchecked.

In this book, Oglesby just wants us to be clear about what it is we have done when we capitulate: We have effectively forfeited our right to a democracy and all the values, ideals and traditions that go along with it. Arguably, todays political existence in the U.S. is a whole new form of quietly hidden tyranny run by the Secret National Security State as the proxy for two competing vampire power elites.

The overarching point of this book is to tell us that there is no free lunch even in a democracy. As in any other political system, in a democracy too the choice is between terror and tyranny, between Democracy and Fascism. These two poles of political existence cannot be finessed through laziness, exhaustion, or choosing to live in denial. Like all other political systems, democracy also exists on that tenuous sliver of ground that lies between these two poles; there are no angles left to be played. Those who somehow believe that benign tyranny "by their own favorite corrupt power elite" is the answer to terror, have failed to notice Oglesbys crowning point about the JFK assassination: that terror and tyranny are but opposite sides of the same corrupt coin: that tyranny is terror, just by another name, and by other more elaborate means.

That this fact is true could not be made clearer in todays post-911, post-JFK, RFK, MLK and Malcolm X assassination era. In the current heightened internal security frenzy, it is easy enough to see that the American internal security landscape has finally being transformed in plain sight, into a proto-Fascist nation overrun by rent-a-cops, hired security guards and undercover agents of all descriptions, gated communities, metal detectors, mercenary armies, informants, spies, counterspies and intelligence stringers, NARCs and DEA agents, FBI, CIA, Secret service and IRS agents, helicopter surveillance, bill collection agencies, and bounty hunters, just to name a few.

And this is being done at the same time that our leaders take us to war without asking our consent and without good reason. It is now the USA, not the Communists nations, that is throwing suspected terrorists in jail and torturing them without the benefits of even the minimum of legal protections. It is our own home-grown democracy, not Russia or South Africa that now leads the world in prisoners with 2.3 million of our own citizens locked behind bars. And all of this is taking place after two Presidential elections have been decided under a cloud thought to be normal only in a Banana Republic.

Under such dramatic circumstances it is no longer just an academic exercise to ask the question Oglesby poses in this book: Where does our democracy now lie along that spectrum between tyranny and terror? Between Fascism and democracy? Nor is it mere hyperbole that John Dean, one of the surviving principals in the Watergate Affair, is at this very moment furiously writing books warning us all over again that the cancer he spoke to President Nixon about has finally metastasized and spread throughout the American body politic. If no one has noticed but Carl Oglesby, those who assassinated Kennedy and ran Nixon out of office with the Watergate caper, are now in charge of the Secret National Security State.

What Oglesby proposes in this analysis is that it is the Yankee-Cowboy War that has finally lulled us to sleep. We have been socialized into hiding behind our favorite power elite team jerseys, outsourcing our hard won freedoms and power by proxy to those Yankees and Cowboys, who, at the same time they stand-in for us, also rape us in the name of their own private economic self-interests. We have been socialized into handing over our loyalty to those who have proven that they no longer have the interests of this nation at heart, those with no demonstrable values above their own ability to seek power and their ability to accumulate wealth. To them, this Yankee-Cowboy War may be a game with a winning strategy. However, for us, the true heirs and the true sovereigns of American democracy, trickle-down Socialism, or trickledown Cowboy Entrepreneurism (which in the end are pretty much the same thing) is a losing proposition whether our proxy is a Cowboy or a Yankee, whether our political party is democrat or republican, and whether our team jersey is red or blue.

JFK, Nixon, MLK, RFK, and Malcolm were all brought down by those who somehow have used their corrupt power to bore their way into the walls and crevices of our blindly and insanely partisan democracy, establishing in its place a Secret National Security State, an entity that grows without bounds like a cancer and one that is ever inching the nation closer toward Fascist tyranny. And like the political imbeciles they each take us to be, We the People have allowed them to ride into town on their red and blue Trojan horses to steal away our power, our freedom and our peace of mind under the guise of political partisanism, and keeping us safe from terror and tyranny.

This is an important book not just because it builds up, brick-by-brick, a coherent frame of reference for situating the events that unfolded into the JFK assassination and the Watergate caper, but also because it forces the reader to think and to ask the hard questions laying at the subtext of the JFK assassination: What does it say about us as a nation if a President can be murdered in broad daylight, and the murder covered-up for half a century, and the nation goes on pretending that it was all the result of a lone nut?

When a President bleeds, who will clean up the blood?
Five stars.

I concur with Ms. Meredith- Oglesby's analysis is cohesive, and the information contained herein is unavailable anywhere else.

How did our CIA really come about and what was the true role of Hitler's top spymaster? Was Watergate really an "accident"? What role did James McCord really play?
What did Jack Ruby tell the Warren Commissioners about a "whole new form of government" that would take over if he was not taken to Washington with them and be able to reveal his personal knowledge about the assassination of JFK?

Remembers E. Howard Hunt's wife Dorothy and the highly suspicious plane crash in which she died, while in the process of paying Nixon hush money to the Watergatgate burglers???

Oglesby's brilliant work answers these and many more questions.

This very rare and magnificent read is long overdue for a republication, so that the many conspiracies of the 60's are better comprehended.

I cannot recommend this work highly enough.

Attorney Dawn Meredith,
Austin, Tx.

This book is one of the most important books that I have read on the JFK assassination - and I have read over a dozen since 1964. It is the "final chapter" as it provides the "big picture" answer.

It uses the information that came out since the 1970s. The Congressional Investigation in 1977 resulted in a number of books afterwards.

If you read Curt Gentry's "J. Edgar Hoover, The Man and the Myth" you would know that Hoover had been filing false expense reports for decades, and built up a small fortune. (He stayed at hotels and ate at restaurants for free, then collected expenses as if he had paid.) If he ever left office, he would have been convicted for fraud, and died in jail. He had no other option but to die in office, since he could not (or would not) get a "get out of jail free" card. (The Watergate Burglary came apart when one of the burglars did not get this, as promised.)

You should know that this GOOJF card is not just an invented scene in the movie "Clear and Present Danger". Back in the 1940s the four-star General who headed the CIA went to President Truman with a complaint about an assignment: it clearly crossed the line into a felony. But Harry just wrote out a signed but undated full Presidential Pardon! Read the biography of Allen Dulles, "Gentleman Spy" for more details.

And LBJ's crony was implicated in various frauds, some of which were said to be in complicity with organized crime. LBJ was likely to be dumped as vice-president, and would also face prosecution, disgrace, and jail.

Mark North has collected a number of letters that passed between LBJ and JEH. Surely no one would expect either of them to put their plans in writing?

Mark North's "Act Of Treason" is a great, albeit dry, book on Hoover (and JFK/ RFK), making great use of contemporary news accounts and so forth. This is a nice companion volume to R. Andrew Kiel's outstanding book on Hoover, along with Anthony Summer's masterpiece "Official and Confidential." Get this!
P.S. Who he thinks may be J. Edgar Hoover in his photo section is actually Secret Service agent Stewart G. "Stu" Stout, Jr.
Vince Palamara
Secret Service expert, History Channel, author of 2 books, in over 30 other author's books, etc.

History, a great story and an authentic historical craft! Not only that, but just the right size for girl-sized hands. A+++++++ Cannot be beat!

This is a short story in the American Girls Short Stories series about Addy Walker, a ten-year-old African-American girl living in the America of 1865. After the joy of celebrating the end of the Civil War, Addy's world is thrown into confusion when she receives the news the President Abraham Lincoln was shot. All her hopes for a better future seem gone. However, just when things look their darkest, Addy finds reason to hope.

The final chapter is a historical look at Lincoln's death and its aftermath, and then a nice quiz on Mr. Lincoln. (My eleven-year-old daughter got 8 out of 8!) Once again, Connie Porter has produced a great Addy book, one that shows what life was really like, and teaches a lesson. We highly recommend this book!

After reading America's Assasinations and Aspirations I was quite intrigued by the information offered by Mr. Baird.
His presentaion of the facts makes me want to delve deeper into many of the facets of America's history contained within.
Educational, thought provoking and enlightening, this is a 'must-read' for those of us who are not interested in being
spoon-fed information by today's media. An obvious student of history, Robert connects the dots with America's history
in order to present the larger picture of cover-ups, lies and deceit laid down by the establishment. Personally I had no idea
Jean Lafitte was such a major player Personally I had no idea that Jean Lafitte was such a major player. Most people
will never have considered many of the things in the book even if they are long time researchers into these things.

A few inspirational comments from men of station. A fair amount of these comments are provided by Mr. Baird for your
further enlightenment.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws"-Mayer Amschel Rothschild.
"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce"-President James Garfield
(assassinated shortly after making this statement)
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation,
the banks and corporations that will grow up around them (the banks), will deprive the people of their property until their
children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered"-Thomas Jefferson.

The author gives a person the desire get to the bottom of a lot of questions that burn in the backs of everyone's minds.
Any person who doesn't have rock for brains will benefit from reading America's Assassinations & Aspirations.
Read this book and you will be jogged out of your slumbering conciousness.

America's Assassinations and Aspirations delivers a rare glimpse into the real world of monopolistic power plays that built the United States despite what our textbooks would have us believe. We were taught about Manifest Destiny, but are we fully aware of the real motives behind it as well other immoral take overs like 'Ipsi Dicit' or the 'Discovery Doctrine'?

Author Robert Bruce Baird skillfully recounts the intrigues of Royal family lineages and Secret Societies that conspire to keep power and control over populations and have done so since the days of Moses and before. He traces the blood lines from the European Royals to the Founding Fathers of America and how they were involved in drawing our national bounderies and forming our banks and institutions. The 'Powers that Be' have been in place since the days of The Phoenician Nobles, the Benjaminites and Ptolemies and still control the wealth in the world that governs our lives today including our presidents.

With perseverance and determination, he uncovers the 'skeletons' in the closets of the Royal families and their paid representatives who conspired to defend or defeat each other; The Hapsburgs, the Rothchilds, the Duponts, the Randolphs, the Hamiltons, the Rockefellers and the Tafts. As the author so aptly puts it 'the intrigue goes far beyond Secret Societies such as Skull and Bones. Skull and Bones is small potatoes compared to the intrigues of the Hegelian Dialectic, the Rosicrucians, the Merovingians and the Masons.' Their influence and operatives are far reaching from ancient times to present governments, Kingships, the Church, Popes, secret orders and religious organizations ~ from Jesuits to Billy Graham (who is a Mason).

With the same dedication found in his earlier work Diverse Druids, he painstakingly researches history from archived documents interconnecting the early American nobles to the prominant players of the twentieth century; Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Francis Bacon, Thomas Jefferson, Pierre Dupont de Nemours, Andrew Jackson, Count Rumford, Alexander Hamilton, Peyton Randolph, Winston Churchill, J.P Morgan and Franklin Delano Rooselvelt are just few of the players and families that carried the line and passed the power from one dynasty to the next. There are few the intrigue has not touched, from the Kennedy clan and 'Camelot' to Prescott Bush and family.

Robert Bruce Baird follows the money trail behind the families that set up America and arranged presidential assassinations to stay in control. America's Assassinations and Aspirations takes you to the core in a way few historians have. It is a detective story that touches every citizen and an important work for all people on earth.

I recently finished reading Angel of Vengeance by Ana Siljak. The story was rich with vivid descriptions of the life of the Russian people, those oppressed, the privileged, and those who endeavored to change the status quo. In light of events in the world today, I was intrigued with the background given on the various radical groups that attempted to engage the peasants to overthrow the government. Intertwined with all of this is the fascinating personal story of a young woman. The journey documented in the book of Vera Zasulich's internal outrage toward public officials, the validation of her feelings gleaned from her veracious readings of radical publications and her interactions with infamous terrorists, to her decision to act on her own and assassinate the governor is a winning combination. The unintended consequences of her actions extend the story to show us the impact she had on the world and individuals already familiar to us such as Oscar Wilde. This book is educational, thought provoking and very entertaining.

Ana Siljak's "Angel of Vengeance" is proof positive that every once in awhile, an extraordinarily talented academic historian can breathe life into a long-dead era and make it accessible to an audience far broader than his or her professional peers. This book is an absolute gem, impeccably researched, engagingly written with a narrative style that reflects the tensions and drama of her subject matter. The book chronicles the first act in the "Age of Assassinations," when an aristocratic woman with revolutionary sentiments killed the governor of St. Petersburg with a revolver she'd concealed under her clothing. Her subsequent trial became a spectacle, the pre-revolutionary Russian equivalent of the Lindberg trial of the 1930's. The assassination and trial became one of the keystone moments that fueled the revolutionary fever which ultimately toppled the Tzar's regime a few decades later.

Siljak has done an outstanding job of blending craft and research into a highly readable, fascinating snapshot of late-nineteenth century Russia. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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I enjoyed reading this book.

Page 141, in particular, is interestiing ""He (Mozart) knew he was at odds with the nobility, but when the subject came up, he would look at you with his pale, gentle face and shrug, and go on composing music as if that were all that mattered""
""Do you believe it was simply poor health"? A kidney ailment, as his doctors implied?""......

I would have been more at ease if I had seen an authentic references to Doctor's Reports on Mozart's health conditions.. there must have been one written and archived somwhere (I wonder!!!) Unless it had been a taboo subject to write anything about Mozart, notably during his last four (to five) years after he had composed Figaro, and the aftermath of the French revolution (the locking up and confinement of Marie Antoinette)

However I should say the author has omitted to list his References and missed to compile an Index.

I am convinced. Mozart was poisoned. The experts of medicine and law can shout with the world their agreement with the Hapsburgs. Just as Mozart's music won't let me go, this book remains. I remain secure in my conviction of the accuracy, the truth as presented by David Weiss. He has explored every possibility with historical accuracy, leaving me grateful that I know, and sad for the world that doesn't care to see. You will see when you read this.

I lost this book years ago and no used dealer can keep it in stock. To see it reprinted is a dream come true.

Tom Miller's Assassination Please Almanac was an extremely valuable reference work when first published in the '70s. Its chronology and other features remain unique and valuable today. It is good to see it available again!!