If only it were closed

Rating: Null/10 (17 July 2005)

Over the last 25 years, I have read almost every book on every perspective I am aware of re this topic, from the Jim Bishop down-the-line timeline to David Lifton's surgical alteration.
I freely admit after all of this that I do not know what transpired on Dallas on 11/22/63. As the old maxim goes, the more you learn, the less you know.
But I must take issue with those who like to declare Posner's 'Case Closed' book the definitive work that ends all of the theories. When it came out, I looked forward to perhaps having this be the case.
Posner's book is a real disappointment. It solves nothing, it answers only a few of the propositions that it purports to. Posner alleges that many of the consipracy writers "cherry-pick" their witnesses and statements to support their conclusions. On this, he is right on. And he then proceeds to do exactly what he castigates others for - cherry-picking those who saw the Oswald lone gunman theory and discounting everyone who saw something different for one reason or another. I was and still am in disbelief that a writer as talented as Gerald Posner fell into such a trap and hypocrisy.
Unfortunately, Posner's book solves nothing - despite the constant desire of many to have it do so. I wish it had.