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In this updated and revised edition, James DiEugenio dissects the new Oscar-nominated film, The Post, and how it disingenuously represents the Pentagon Papers saga, to the detriment of the true heroes of the operation. The story of the film stems from the failed attempt of Academy Award–winning actor Tom Hanks and producer Gary Goetzman to make Vincent Bugliosi’s mammoth book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. He exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played the role of an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder, and how this formed the basis for the epic tome.

JFK: The Evidence Today lists the myriad problems with Bugliosi’s book and explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing many facts during the publicity campaign for the book and how this lack of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman—cofounders of the production company Playtone—to purchase the film rights. DiEugenio then shows how the failed film adapted from that book, entitled Parkland, does not resemble Bugliosi’s book and examines why.

This book reveals the connections between Washington and Hollywood, as well as the CIA influence in the film community today. It includes an extended look at the little-known aspects of the lives and careers of Bugliosi, Hanks, and Goetzman. JFK: The Evidence Today sheds light on the Kennedy assassination, New Hollywood, and political influence on media in America.

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“Jim DiEugenio shows us how Hollywood and the mainstream media are getting the Kennedy assassination all wrong.” —Jesse Ventura, author of They Killed Our President and American Conspiracies --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

James DiEugenio is cofounder of two organizations, the Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination and the Coalition on Political Assassinations. He is coeditor of The Assassinations, a book on the deaths of JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, and Malcolm X.

Oliver Stone is the Academy-Award winning director of Platoon. Stone also directed a political trilogy on American presidents that included JFK, Nixon, and W. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Publisher : Skyhorse; Revised, Expanded edition (1 May 2018)
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Mr. Alan R. Jenkins

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 August 2019

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Essentially a rebuke of Vincent Bugliosi's "Reclaiming History" (which I have read); this is a compelling part by part assessment of the Pro-Warren Commission supporters view; and in part how a televised re-trial by UK Thames TV was effectively a "whitewash" of the evidence in the same way the Warren Commission whitewashed their report. Though nothing new in the book to those who are JFK assassination devotees; it is a compelling book if you have read "Reclaiming History" and how both sides of the conspiracy lobby hide, obfuscate truth and bend the evidence to their point of view. I recommend that anyone who has not done so to read both and this will give you a better insight into the JFK assassination and maybe alter your conclusions. Also it draws on the Tom Hanks connection to the Parklands film and the film that never happened (I will not spoil the story here) but read it for yourself.

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Wes Beatty

Vince refuted and ridiculed. Conspiracyland is still smarting.

Reviewed in Canada on 14 November 2020

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The simmering rage with which Conspiracyland received Reclaiming History finds full expression in The JFK Assassination; The Evidence Today. Every page practically drips anger at Vincent Bugliosi’s dismissive and often flippant deconstruction of the major JFK assassination conspiracy theories.
Sadly, everything that is wrong with Conspiracyland can be found here and illustrates why conspiracy theorists are especially bad at uncovering real conspiracies; as a starting point, conspiracy is a factual assumption – not a hypothesis.
As such, it quickly becomes obvious that in the rush to vilify Bugliosi’s work, the author didn’t trouble himself to let the reader in on some obvious existential questions. Was Oswald the shooter or not? If he was then all of the criticism of the Warren Commission and HSCA findings about ballistics, photos, autopsies etc., is a colossal waste of time. If Oswald wasn’t the shooter, then what role, did he play? Was it “I’m just a patsy…er, although I was part of conspiracy to kill the President and have done everything in my power to attract suspicion”? Or, did he have nothing to do with the murder and Jim Garrison was just blowing smoke?
From the chronic inability to present a theory of the assassination that makes sense and hangs together on the evidence (can we have the shooter’s name(s), location(s) and plan already or will you be needing another half century?); criticism of the Warren Commission and HSCA that begs more questions than answers (e.g. they didn’t have the right gun and bullet? What!?) and overly broad connections based on precious little evidence and tortured reasoning (e.g. Bugliosi was wrong, David Ferrie and Oswald were briefly in the same CAP unit; conclusion? Ferrie was an important if not ‘crucial’ influence on Oswald), it’s all here.
If you are looking for answers in The JFK Assassination, keep looking; this book is less about who shot JFK and more about settling scores with those who refuse to buy what Conspiracyland is peddling. And if the JFK conspiracies was not enough, we learn conspiracies can be found under every rock and tree from the military/CIA penetration of Hollywood preventing the ‘real story’ from being told to the sacking of Jim Garrison.
The first part of The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today has precisely nothing to do with, well, the JFK assassination or the evidence of the assassination today. Likening Bugliosi to a ‘calamity’ DiEugenio begins his critique of Reclaiming History with a questionable ad hominem attack on Bugliosi himself. This is done by a purportedly critical review of Bugliosi’s career in general and his work as the prosecutor in the Charles Manson case in particular.
Bugliosi’s participation in a mock trial of Oswald on British television is also singled out for especial vitriol. The conviction of Oswald was so exasperating we needed to be informed in great detail what was wrong with it all. Apparently, Bugliosi wasn’t the only one to take it a little too seriously.
DiEugenio gives his pro-conspiracy take on the words and actions of just about every participant – judge, prosecutor, defence counsel, defence and prosecution witnesses. Pity defence counsel Spence who is dismissed as a mere ingenue. After all, how could anyone but a JFK buff hope to marshal the esoterica needed to overwhelm Bugliosi?
Throughout The JFK Assassination, DiEugenio returns to the mock trial jabbing at it as a “farce of a trial” or the “London Sideshow”. By the end of the book he angrily dismisses the British series as a “grotesque fantasy of a trial”. This from an author who appears truly mystified by the critical reaction to Oliver Stone’s factually-challenged movie about another trial, JFK. As grotesque fantasies go, JFK is tough to beat.
Then there is Tom Hanks. Hanks apparently doesn’t buy into Conspiracyland and is eviscerated as being everything from not funny in a Simpson’s appearance to an egregiously poor historian (The Da Vinci Code was a “fraudulent fantasy” – indeed) . Fascinating I suppose but what business does the subject of Hanks have in a book about the JFK assassination? To be sure, absolutely nothing but it does tie in (I think?) with the military and CIA infiltration of Hollywood.
The JFK Assassination also features, perhaps unintentionally, a comparison of two prosecutors (Vince Bugliosi /Jim Garrison) and it is difficult to miss the irony of the comparison. Unlike Bugliosi’s mock trial about a deceased person that was produced for entertainment purposes, Garrison’s trial was about a living person whose liberty and repute hung in the balance.
Clay Shaw was an innocent man and the case against him was illusory. But in the part of the book on Bugliosi’s treatment of Garrison it is clear that DiEugenio is having none of that.
Shaw’s trial was Conspiracyland’s Chernobyl. With the main prosecution witness having to give statements to investigators while cranked on sodium pentothal or under hypnosis; a prosecution investigator who jumped ship when underwhelmed by the complete lack of evidence in the case and the jury tanking the charge after weeks of trial and less than an hour of deliberation, the term “farce of trial” is particularly apt.
Perhaps not surprisingly, in the end, it’s Garrison who is the victim of the piece; a courageous hero. Surely not an embarrassing homophobic tormentor of an innocent man.
And as if the reasons for it were not obvious enough, even Garrison’s dismissal has to be couched in conspiratorial terms. It was the machinations of the New Orleans ‘Power Elite’ with the help of ‘Washington’. Working through double agents, infiltrators and an inside informant Garrison was sacked and replaced by a less-capable prosecutor. One can almost hear Vince saying it: Riiiiiiight!

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Not believable then, not believable now.

Reviewed in the United States on 5 July 2018

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The JFK assassination was a somewhat unique event in that it was a pivotal event in post WWII US history where the official story is not believed by the majority of people. As such it's kind of a red pill of US history with ample evidence that things are not what they seem. I think part of the reason it's covered up to this day is that if high level conspiracy is admitted here, then questions will be asked about other events. Questions the powers that be would rather not answer.

I believe DiEugenio characterizes Bugliosi's tome as a prosecutor's brief, which is accurate. He starts with a presumption of Oswald's guilt and fills in the details, accurate or not, that back up his conclusion. JD spends a good part of this book countering his evidence and showing that the evidence against Oswald was riddled with problems, and that there is a whole web of evidence that points to something much more than a lone nut (who was himself apparently killed by a lone nut).

I think Boston Bill's characterization of DiEugenio as Columbo is apt. Not the most polished writer or speaker; his writing style takes a bit of getting used to. He likes to turn clauses into full sentences and at times I had trouble following a complicated train of thought and had to reread passages a few times to comprehend it (maybe that's my problem, though). However, he did do a good job of breaking up the chapters into 1-4 page subsections which are more easily digested.

This not a book for beginners to the JFK assassination literature, although once you have the basics, this is a good next step in that it addresses a lot of the problems with the lone nut theory and confronts the mainstream media's inability do deal honestly with this issue, 50+ years and counting.

I also enjoyed the peripheral material- Bugliosi's work on the Manson case, and critiques of Hanks, Spielberg, etc. as historians.

I gather that DiEugenio's politics are left leaning, although he is disenchanted with the Establishment Left (or "Loony Left" as he sometimes calls it).
Can't say I blame him.

As Mr. Couteau mentioned, DiEugenio maintains the kennedysandking.com website, which is frequently updated with new material related to the 60's era history changing assassinations. He is also a frequent guest (usually a few times a month) on blackopradio.com, hosted by Len Osanic. His ability to speak almost extemporaneously on this and related topics shows a remarkable breath and depth of knowledge. He must be a voracious reader to be versed on the works of so many of the JFK assassination researchers.

Bottom line, if you are looking to dig a bit deeper into the JFK assassination this a must read.

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larry lerno

Excellent summary

Reviewed in the United States on 21 May 2018

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This critique of Vincent Bugliosi's sharply slanted work on JFK's assassination serves as a scaffolding for a concise review of both the older and the newer evidence which conclusively demonstrates that this epochal event was the result of a high-level government conspiracy. Furthermore, this book highlights the obsequious and irrationally persistent support among major news media, and even historians, for the thoroughly discredited conclusions of Warren. More proof, I suppose, that the "winners" write the history books, even if those winners are brutally violent and completely deceptive elites, bent on using every manner of political and economic power, supported by constant propaganda, to advance their own interests, to the detriment of every other human on earth, and of the earth itself. Distinguishing this book as well is Mr. DiEugenio's linking of the decline of American cinema to the insidious growth of the tentacles of the National Security State into the power structures of Hollywood. One reservation I have is the author's less-than-insightful invocation of the discredited blowback explanation for 9/11. That 9/11 was an operation of the U.S. Government is, by now, as well-established as is the fact that JFK was the victim of essentially a coup d'etat. Surely he should be aware that the two events share a monstrous similarity: in each case, the official story makes no sense, at any level of inspection. Does Mr. DiEugenio really believe that government agencies which would murder JFK, RFK, MLK, and a large number of foreign leaders who threaten American hegemony and carry out an unending series of violent, illegal, and unconstitutional foreign interventions leading to the unnecessary deaths of millions of innocents (among countless other crimes against humanity) really balk at killing a couple thousand American citizens on 9/11, in what was clearly to the elites a NECESSARY propaganda operation. Surely they would not, and did not, balk when cognizant of the enormous advantages that this false flag would provide them. After all, what legal, constitutional, and moral lines had these brutal elites not already enthusiastically leapt over?

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Jeff Marzano

Great Overview Of The JFK Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on 24 April 2019

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People who are already familiar with the JFK conspiracy theories will recognize a lot of the key assassination events mentioned in this book. Over the last 56 years the same important and significant events keep coming up in the JFK literature.

The backdrop for this book is a sort of subplot where Mr. DiEugenio provides counter arguments for Vincent Bugliosi's 1,600 page opus about the JFK assassination called Reclaiming History.

Bugliosi's book has also been referred to as:

Reclaiming The Warren Commission
Rewriting History
The Cinder Block

Another subplot is Mr. DiEugenio's views on how history has been portrayed in popular culture. Bugliosi's book is just one example where people wrote books or created movies or TV shows which are not historically accurate.

Tom Hanks appears in the movies Apollo 13 and The Da Vinci Code.

Both of those movies have an equal probability of being based on actual events.

Zero.

I got the impression that Mr. DiEugenio would like to produce his own movie franchise about the JFK case.

And I think there's enough information there for at least three movies.

I might break it down as follows.

The Men Who Killed Kennedy 1

start with Mac Wallace murdering Henry Marshall or someone else
J. Edgar Hoover blackmails the Kennedy brothers to put LBJ on the ticket
maybe some things that happened before JFK got elected
Judyth Baker meets and falls in love with Lee Oswald in New Orleans
Marilyn / Mary Myer / et. al.
JFK gets elected
Bay Of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis
Lee Oswald stuff like Mexico City
LBJ's legal troubles with Bobby Baker and Billy Sol Estes
JFK gets assassinated
JFK taken to Parkland Hospital / body taken illegally
the fake autopsy

The Men Who Killed Kennedy 2

the cover up continues / the Warren Commission
J. Edgar Hoover / FBI / CIA sabotage the Warren Commission
witnesses start dying right and left
Johnson begins the escalation in Vietnam
Dangerous Dan Marvin in Vietnam
Robert Kennedy / MK Ultra
MLK

The Men Who Killed Kennedy 3

Richard 'Tricky Dick' Nixon
the Garrison Clay Shaw trial
J. Edgar Hoover stuff
public resistance about Vietnam
Kent State
Tricky Dick's plumbers / Watergate
Nixon resigns from the presidency in disgrace
more witnesses turn up dead
HSCA whitewash

What's interesting is the JFK case is like a real life Bourne Identity movie that really happened.

To me the JFK case has those same types of elements.

In fact the Bourne Identity movies were based on the Iran Contra conspiracy combined with the CIA's diabolical MK Ultra mind control program.

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