From: m_henderson@csc32.enet.dec.com (Marty Henderson)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk
Subject: Re: Best Book on JFK Killing
Date: 30 Dec 92 19:18:40 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


>>Fletcher Prouty's "JFK", a new work, is hard to beat for providing
>>motive for the crime.  It has the bonus that it gives younger readers
>>a flavor of the times and somewhat frightening insights into the
>>Vietnam war era and conspiracy theory in general.
> 
>I would recommend Prouty as well, just from his earlier writings (I haven't
>had a chance to get this one yet.) He's sometimes wrong on details, but he
>has a unique perspective and an unparalleled ability to grasp "the big
>picture."

I received L. Fletcher Prouty's new book "JFK, The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot
to Assassinate John F. Kennedy" for Christmas. It is a Birch Lane Press book
Published by the "Carol Publishing Group".

I can't put this book down I plan to read it more than once. Prouty is an
insider who has great insight into the big picture of things. He concentrates
on the "why" rather than the "who" and "how".

His main theme of the book is that we will never know the actual names of those
who instigated the plot, carried it out, actually fired the shots, and who have
and still do cover it up. (Although the name Dulles comes up about 10 trillion
times throughout the book) Those responsible have buffered themselves all too
well to get caught.

Instead Prouty concentrates on how things are "controlled" from levels above
heads of state. How war is the driving force behind a governments control of
it's people. Nothing is by accident - it is all planned by very powerful
people. John F. Kennedy stood in the face of these powerful people in many
aspects and was working to change the direction of war (outright and
clandestine) to a completely different direction.

Great insights are given into the Vietnam era (1945 - 1975), East/West
alliances from BEFORE the end of WWII, Cold war, and the shock waves the
Kennedy's sent through the strongholds of power which led to the assassination.
Not to mention information about our "free" press and other methods used to
control. There is also some insight into war in the nuke age and how the face
of war was completely changed since the advent of nukes. aka a war now can't 
be fought to win in the conventional manner. You can't drive your enemy to the
nuclear threshold by utterly destroying them. In other words you can't win a war
outright without too much danger of nuke retaliation. (Do you REALLY believe
Bush's reasons for not going into Bahgdad? If we pushed them any further then
Sadam would have used his nukes - and you KNOW he had/has them) It then becomes
quite obvious why the CIA has been fighting the Cold war (unlawfully by the
way).

The whole book speaks to the "why" of the assassination. He also deals with
some practical matters of how security was let down in Dallas and the highly
odd situation of most of Kennedy's cabinet being out of the country during
the assassination. He speaks to the fact that Kennedy's Vietnam plans were
being subverted in the final days before the assassination. He does not say
it but you get the hint that he believes some of the cabinet members knew
of the assassination and could not wait to begin reversing certain policies.
(This is my opinion from reading the book).

Anyway - for myself and those of you who are very weary of reading the same
thing over and over again from different perspectives about how many shots
were fired from where and this and that fake Oswald, and this and that fake
photo etc... then this book is VERY refreshing. Prouty has a very unique
insiders view of these events. (At lest he is the only insider with the 
courage to speak out about what he knows - a truly GREAT American)

For those of you who were confused by the content of the speech given by
"Man-x" (Donald Sutherland) in the movie "JFK" then you should read this
book. L. Fletcher Prouty is "Man-x" according to Oliver Stone. This book
is a clarification of everything said during that section of that movie
masterpiece.

I highly recommend this book.

Marty


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