Rob Reiner's Upcoming Book
- Fred Litwin
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Rob Reiner will be posthumously publishing a book based on his podcast series, Who Killed JFK?, in November.
Based on the hit podcast of the same name, Who Killed JFK? unravels a tangled web of evidence—including recently declassified documents, rare interview transcripts, and existing expert research—and presents the definitive analysis of the Kennedy assassination.
Since the fateful day in Dallas on November 22, 1963, journalists, historians, and investigators have examined the official record of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, yet a clear and conclusive explanation has remained elusive. Until now.
Synthesizing decades of research with original investigative work, Rob Reiner, David Hoffman, and Dick Russell reconstruct the assassination with scholarly rigor and narrative urgency. As the conspiracy unfolds, you’ll find a botched autopsy, two compromised investigations, numerous suspicious deaths, and countless cover-ups within the very institutions charged with uncovering the truth. This book assembles the long-scattered fragments into a coherent and riveting case, and finally decodes America’s greatest murder mystery: Who killed JFK?
At a time when political violence and distrust in the government are reaching new highs, this answer—and the reasons why—may be more important than ever.
I mean no disrespect for Rob Reiner, who was an excellent filmmaker and director, but this book is going to be dreadful.
How do I know that?
Well, for one, Reiner bought into the stories of Tosh Plumlee -- that he had met Lee Harvey Oswald at Nags Head, North Carolina in 1959, and that he flew Johnny Roselli and E. Howard Hunt into Dallas on November 22, 1963.
Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Tosh Plumlee
An examination of Plumlee's latest claims.
Plumlee claims to have met Oswald on several occasions.
Plumlee's new book is quite the novel.
Part One of two parts.
Second of two parts.
Some of Plumlee's interesting activities in 1959.
A bizarre story in which Plumlee writes to the FBI that he has provided bad information to an article about him in a Denver magazine.
Plumlee steals a plane and writes some bad checks.
Did Plumlee fly an abort team to Dallas or the actual assassins?
Plumlee writes to Palamara that Dinkin's messages might have been the intelligence to send the abort team to Dallas.
PBS Frontline investigated Plumlee's allegations about Nags Head, North Carolina and could not corroborate any part of his story.
Wow, Tosh finds someone who has a photograph of Jack Ruby, Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana, Ed McLamore, and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Without any evidence, Reiner also claimed that General Charles Willoughby was the mastermind of the assassination.
Unfortunately, Reiner hired Dick Russell to provide the research for his podcast series. Dick Russell has spent years selling his ridiculous Richard Case Nagell story to the public.
Russell even wrote the foreword to Tosh Plumlee's new book.
Even if it was only a Hollywood thriller, it would be compelling. But I'm convinced that Plumlee's saga is for real -- and verification has surfaced over the years with various federal investigative bodies. [page viii]
None of the so-called verification was included in Plumlee's book.
Here are some links about Rob Reiner's podcast series.
There is no evidence tying Willoughby to the assassination.
How on earth could Rob Reiner and his partners believe this ridiculous story?
We take apart the second five episodes of Reiner's podcast on the JFK assassination.
We take apart the first five episodes of Reiner's podcast on the JFK assassination.
Was there a fake defector program at Nags Head, North Carolina?
Flimsy evidence is cited that originated in Hustler Magazine.
Reiner believes the two-Oswald theory.
This blog post also covers the concluding episode of Reiner's podcast.
Conspiracy theorists have no regard for truth.
I have had extensive conversations with the chief writer for the podcast series, David Hoffman, on Twitter. It was a frustrating experience -- he has accepted all sorts of factoids about the assassination -- but I'll be writing more about this when the book is published.
