From: FIELD1@NIEHS.bitnet (Jack Field)
Subject: The People v. Lee Harvey Oswald
Keywords: JFK OSWALD ASSASSINATION
Organization: NIEHS/DIR/SCL
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:34:26 GMT

I purchased this book at my local Waldenbooks yesterday (8/20/92) and have not
had a chance to read it yet.  The following is from the flyleaf cover:

                     THE PEOPLE VS. LEE HARVEY OSWALD BY WALT BROWN

Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc.         ISBN 0-88184-869-7	
260 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10001                     $25.00

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"Walt Brown weaves an engrossing narrative that will answer once and for all
the most fundamental question surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy:
 Could Lee Harvey Oswald have been convicted?

Brown, a historian and former Special Agent for the Justice Department, brings
before the "court of history" hundreds of witnesses and documents, some rarely
seen before.  He constructs an extraordinary courtroom drama, and he does so
with an historian's concern for scholarship as well as with a federal agent's
understanding of the inner-most workings of the American judicial system.

A sample of the testimony:  Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of Texas testifies
that the White House instructed him on how to word Oswald's indictment.  A man
by the name of Willie Sommerset tells the court what he learned once he had
penetrated a right-wing organization.  The members of this organization had
been promised that Kennedy would be eliminated and that someone would be
swiftly arrested to satisfy the grieving public.  Secret Service Agent Clint
Hill, testifies that the rear portion of the President's head had been removed
by the bullet.  Dallas Deputy Sheriff Roger Craig relates how a man - a suspect
whom he arrested in the railroad yards immediately following the shooting -
simply disappeared.  Presidential Assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell tells the
court how he was pressured to testify that the shots came from the rear of the
limousine, when, in fact, the shots he heard came from in front of the
President's car.  Gordon Arnold and Mary Moorman explain how the film they took
of the motorcade was seized by authorities and has not been seen since.  Itya
Mamantov, who was contacted by intelligence agents on November 22 to serve as a
translator for Marina Oswald, stresses that Mrs. Oswald could not identify the
telescopic sight on the rifle she was shown.  This suggests that she had not
seen or photographed Oswald with that rifle in the now famous backyard photos.

What were Oswald's motives?  How many witnesses identified him?  How accurate
was a twenty-five year old surplus weapon in the hands of a mediocre shot? 
What is to be learned from fingerprint evidence?  Is the autopsy report on JFK
an honest document?  Was there a "second" or even "third" Oswald?  Was all the
"evidence" admissible?  Why were FBI experts unable, under the most favorable
conditions, to duplicate Oswald's shots?  Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?

OSWALD:  Presidential assassin or patsy?  BOOK DEPOSITORY:  Sniper's nest or
stage prop?  GRASSY KNOLL:  Killing zone or figment of fifty witnesses'
imaginations?

If THE PEOPLE V. LEE HARVEY OSWALD convinces you of Oswald's guilt, it's "case
closed" with respect to the events on November 22, 1963.  If, however, this
book convinces you of Oswald's innocence, it may be time for a new, impartial
national review of the case of the century.

YOU DECIDE.

WALT BROWN served with the Justice Department in Washington, DC, and New York,
and subsequently earned a Ph.D. in American History at the University of Notre
Dame.  He is currently on a leave of absence from his position as Adjunct
Professor of American History at Ramapo College, New Jersey.

MARTIN GARBUS, one of America's leading trial lawyers, was invited by his
former client, Vaclav Havel, to write the section on civil liberties in the new
Czech constitution.  He practices law in New York City.

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EVIDENCE FROM THE TRIAL OF LEE HARVEY OSWALD

- Verbatim testimony from Parkland Hospital Emergency Room Staff that
contradicts the Prosecution's case.
- Documents indicating fraudulent autopsy conclusions regarding the President's
brain.
- No Oswald fingerprints or palmprints to link him to the alleged assassination
weapon.
- No eyewitness who could identify Oswald although many say a rifle in the
sixth floor window of the Texas School Book Depository.
- Proof that "Secret Service" agents on the Grassy Knoll who initially took
charge of the investigation were impostors.
- Proof that FBI experts were unable to substantiate or match Oswald's alleged
marksmanship abilities despite Oswald not being a great shot.
- Proof that three different rifles were referred to in the arrest report.
- Verbatim testimony from Texas Attorney General Waggoner Carr regarding White
House interference in Oswald's indictment.
- FBI document showing that the alleged assassination weapon was sighted for a
left-handed person.
- Documents showing that photographic evidence was seized at Dealey Plaza and
has not been seen since.
- Proof that J. Edgar Hoover knew of Oswald before the Dallas police did.
- Proof that twelve other suspects were taken into custody and then released.
- Proof that the magic bullet never existed.

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 It appears to do a more thorough job than the recent Court TV mock trial or
the older "The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" from about 1985.  

Jack Field
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