num_pages: 555
description: Many researchers, including Mark Lane, Henry Hurt, Michael L. Kurtz, Gerald D. McKnight etc have pointed to inconsistencies, oversights, exclusions of evidence, errors, changing stories or changes made to witness testimony in the official Warren Commission investigation, which suggest cover-up, without putting forward a theory as to who actually committed the murder. Reasonable Doubt by Henry Hurt, explicates his Warren Commission doubts. Hurt tends to pin the plot on professional crook Robert Easterling, along with Texas oilmen &amp; a Ferrie/Shaw alliance. A thoro, objective, well-documented study of the JFK assassination with 48 b&amp;w photos. Investigative reporter Hurt assembles an overview of evidence, circumstance &amp; theory about the assassination of JFK in '63. In addition to reviewing the eight official inquiries &amp; the various conspiracy theories, he minutely examines seemingly outlandish notions, such as the involvement of a Lee Harvey Oswald impostor in a Cuban conspiracy. The latter theory doesn't seem so outlandish after he produces a likely candidate &amp; a witness whose testimony, tho 'terribly sullied,' provides abundant plausible detail. He builds a powerful case that Oswald didn't kill the president or policeman J.D. Tippitt, &amp; that he was the patsy he called himself shortly before Jack Ruby shot him dead. The prose is a bit breathless at times. He refers to the crime of the century, the autopsy of the century etc. But after reading this, few will doubt that the circumstances surrounding JFK's assassination remain among the mysteries of modern times or that the components of that mystery are clearly laid out here.
language: English
title: Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
titlecomplete: Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
characters: Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy
genres: History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 66
publisher: Henry Holt & Company (NY)