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Did Hale Boggs have reservations about the Warren Report. Paul Bleau thinks that he did -- here is excerpt from the book, Chokeholds : Boggs was neither convinced that Oswald was the assassin, not that Ruby acted alone. According to legal advisor Bernard Fensterwald: “Almost from the beginning, Congressman Boggs had been suspicious over the FBI and CIA’s reluctance to provide hard information when the Commission’s probe turned to certain areas, such as allegations that Oswald may have been an undercover operative of some sort. When the Commission sought to disprove the growing suspicion that Oswald had once worked for the FBI, Boggs was outraged that the only proof of denial that the FBI offered was a brief statement of disclaimer by J. Edgar Hoover. It was Hale Boggs who drew an admission from Allen Dulles that the CIA’s record of employing someone like Oswald might be so heavily coded that the verification of his service would be almost impossible for outside investigators to establish.” According to one of his friends: “Hale felt very, very torn during his work (on the Commission) … he wished he had never been on it and wished he’d never signed it (the Warren Report).” Another former aide argued that “Hale always returned to one thing: Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission—on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it.”[28] Bleau's footnote is a page from the Spartacus website. And the source on that website regarding Boggs is Bernard Fensterwald's book, Coincidence or Conspiracy : Like Russell, Boggs was, very simply, a strong doubter. Several years after his death in 1972, a colleague of his wife Lindy (who was elected to fill her late husband's seat in the Congress) recalled Mrs. Boggs remarking, "Hale felt very, very torn during his work [on the Commission] ... he wished he had never been on it and wished he'd never signed it [the Warren Report]." A former aide to the late House Majority Leader has recently recalled, "Hale always returned to one thing: Hoover lied his eyes out to the Commission - on Oswald, on Ruby, on their friends, the bullets, the gun, you name it... This is just hearsay. An unnamed colleague of his wife supposedly said Boggs regretted signing the Warren Report. And then Fensterwald quotes an unnamed former aide to Boggs. Let's look at what Hale Boggs actually said. Here is an excerpt from an interview between T.H. Baker and Hale Boggs from March 27, 1969 : And here is a video of Hale Boggs: Here is a transcript of this recording: The Warren Commission took testimony from many, many witnesses, well over a thousand. The testimony runs in twenty-six bound volumes, in the many many millions of words. It had at its disposal the complete resources of the FBI, the Secret Service, the CIA, the intelligence of the Army, Navy, Air Force, the State Department, the law enforcement officials of the state of Texas, the Attorney General of this state, law enforcement officials in Dallas, where the assassination occurred. The only direction to the Commission, which was made up of a bipartisan Commission -- my colleague the Republican leader in the house sat on the Commission as did Senator Cooper. As a matter of fact, majority of the members of commission were members of the opposition party. The only admonition we had was to find the truth, and we sought the truth and my own conviction is that we found it. I have my own conviction is, it is, no doubt about it And here is an article: Birmingham Post-Herald, November 28, 1966 Here is another article about the same Boggs interview: Money Quote : Many people would rather believe there was a conspiracy. This is unfortunately human nature. Here is an FBI memo about Hale Boggs : Previous Relevant Blog Post Richard Russell and the Warren Report The truth about his supposed dissent. Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Chokeholds : Did the Second Oswald Fly to Roswell? A rather insane story. Chokeholds Uses a Fake Story The book treats a Mort Sahl quote as if it was correct. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 18 Chokeholds leaves out a lot of information about Aloysius Habighorst. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 17 Bleau doesn't tell his readers about Roger Craig's credibility problems. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 16 Bleau believes the Rose Cherami story. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 15 Bleau claims the Shaw jury believed there was a conspiracy in the JFK assassination. This is just not true. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 14 Bleau doesn't tell you everything about Lyndon Johnson's feelings towards the Warren Report. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 13 Bleau leaves out some important details about the beliefs of Burt Griffin. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 12 Bleau leaves out an important paragraph from Alfredda Scobey's article on the Warren Commission. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 11 Bleau misleads readers on the testimony of John Moss Whitten. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 10 Bleau gets it all wrong on Dr. George Burkley. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 9 Bleau doesn't tell the whole story about John Sherman Cooper. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 8 Bleau claims that J. Lee Rankin questioned the findings of the Warren Report. This is just not true. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 7 Bleau tries to make it appear that Dallas policeman James Leavelle had doubts that Oswald could be found guilty at a trial. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 6 Bleau gets it all wrong on the FBI Summary Report. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 5 Bleau discusses the conclusions of the HSCA but leaves out it most important finding. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 4 Bleau leaves out some important details about a Warren Commission staffer. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 3 Was Oswald a loner? Bleau says no, and then says yes. Paul Bleau Chokes, Part 2 Bleau leaves out some important details about Malcolm Kilduff. Paul Bleau Chokes An introduction to Paul Bleau's new book,  Chokeholds .

Here is the article from the Los Angeles Times that Edwards was referring to: Here is a George Lardner article on the controversy: Previous Relevant Blog Posts George Lardner on Mark Lane Lane supported Don Edwards until he complained about the HSCA.

Was it Richard Nixon? Gee, the answer was given in 1973 and I missed it. Of course, Gus Russo told the whole story of JFK's brain in his magisterial book, Live by the Sword : The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK : (pages 699 - 700 in the Kindle edition) There is very little doubt that Robert Kennedy took control of the “missing” material. This was the finding of the HSCA, as well as many of the Archive employees. The only mystery remaining is exactly how Bobby disposed of the material. And even that mystery is finally starting to fade. In 1976, RFK’s former press aide, Frank Mankiewicz, told HSCA Counsel Blakey he thought that the “President’s brain is in the grave. LBJ, Ted, Bobby, and maybe McNamara buried it when the body was transferred. Ted seemed to confirm it later.” JFK’s body was, in fact, reinterred in Arlington in March 1967, upon completion of a memorial structure. HSCA Chief Investigator Robert Tanenbaum related to the author a comment that Mankiewicz allegedly made to him in 1978—that RFK, in an earlier phone call, said that the brain “is being put back in the coffin. Do not leak this or you’ll be in big trouble.” Mankiewicz denies saying this, but acknowledges being on guard at the perimeter for the reinterment. Evelyn Lincoln told the Committee that she would continue to investigate the matter on her own. In 1992, in a final attempt to determine the whereabouts of the material, the author enlisted a close friend who is also a confidante of Mrs. Lincoln to put the question to her: After she told the HSCA that she would conduct further inquiries into the matter, did she indeed learn anything about the disposition of the President’s brain? According to the intermediary, Mrs. Lincoln became quiet, looked her friend in the eyes, and said simply, “It’s where it belongs.” JFK's body was reinterred in March 1967 and, at that time, his brain was put into the coffin. Update Previous Relevant Blog Posts on Mark Lane Mark Lane and The Progressive Even a left-wing magazine like The Progressive found Mark Lane hard to take. Mark Lane on Clay Shaw Mark Lane's addition to the 1992 edition of Rush to Judgment is eye opening. Mark Lane on the Joe Dolan Show Lane tells Dolan about Garrison's amazing evidence. Did the CIA Try to Kill Mark Lane?   Lane makes a startling allegation. Mark Lane: The Left's Leading Hearse-Chaser   A profile from Mother Jones  magazine. Mark Lane vs. Sylvia Meagher   Lane and Meagher feuded about a blurb for her book. The Case Against Mark Lane   A profile from Esquire Magazine . Mark Lane saw a conspiracy - as usual   An article from the Tampa Bay Times . The Mark of Zorro   An Anthony Lewis column on Mark Lane from 1978. Mark Lane's Scholarship!   Howard Roffman finds that Mark Lane's scholarship is lacking. Mark Lane, Conspiracy Addict   A profile of Mark Lane in Newsweek . Mark Lane offers to introduce Jim Garrison to "Mr. Candy"   For $25,000 Mark Lane offers to introduce Jim Garrison to a witness that would tie Jack Ruby with Clay Shaw. Redactions, Redactions, Redactions...   This post has a good case study of how Mark Lane exploited a redaction in a document.

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Explore JFK assassination theories with Fred Litwin's books. Discover insights on the JFK assassination theories at On The Trail of Delu. Home: Welcome Click the image to purchase Home: Video A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery & Imagination is Fred Litwin's fourth book on the JFK assassination. Previous books include Oliver Stone's Film Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza, which debunked the documentary series JFK Revisited; On the Trail of Delusion - Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser , which chronicled Garrison's persecution of Clay Shaw; I Was a Teenage JFK Conspiracy Freak , detailing Fred's journey from believing in a JFK conspiracy at eighteen to slowly moving to believe that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman. 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Reviews A Heritage of Nonsense: Jim Garrison's Tales of Mystery and Imagination In the late 1960s, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison spoon-fed the public scenario upon scenario of implausible JFK assassination conspiracy theories, many of which have been adopted by well-known Warren Commission critics. Using actual evidence, clear reasoning, and common sense, Fred Litwin masterfully debunks many of the more popular vignettes of Garrison's theories. A Heritage of Nonsense is a must-read for anyone who wants to be properly informed. Robert A. Wagner, author of JFK Assassinated: In the Courtroom: Debating the Critic Research Community For anyone harbouring lingering doubts that Garrison was a deluded charlatan, this book nails that coffin shut tight. With a strong commitment to first-hand testimony and primary source analysis, Fred Litwin is the highest form of amateur investigator writing about the Kennedy assassination, setting the record straight against the leading peddlers of conspiracist nonsense. Fred’s meticulous research, his compassion for the victims of shameless witch hunts, and his low tolerance for paranoid hogwash, make him a formidable opponent to anyone who places their ego and ideology ahead of clear facts and sound logic. Michel Jacques Gagné, Author of Thinking Critically About the Kennedy Assassination , and host of the Paranoid Planet podcast. No reasonable person can possibly take any of Jim Garrison's conspiracy theories seriously after reading this book. Good job, Fred Litwin! David Von Pein, Author of Beyond Reasonable Doubt: The Warren Report and Lee Harvey Oswald's Guilt and Motive 50 Years on [with Mel Ayton] Litwin exposes JFK assassination absurdities the way The Amazing Randi exposed spoon bending illusionists. His latest is a necessary source book illuminating an abomination in US history where a libel was cloaked in an enthralling conspiracy theory. Litwin challenges us to ask ourselves: do we want the truth or to believe what feels more exotic than the truth? Eric Dezenhall, author of Wiseguys and the White House and Best of Enemies [with Gus Russo] Oliver Stone's Film Flam: The Demagogue of Dealey Plaza As long as Oliver Stone is out there peddling his arrant nonsense about the Kennedy assassination, Fred Litwin will be on the case. His latest exposé on the ‘Demagogue of Dealey Plaza’ is a Herculean effort in the war against unreason. James Kirchick , author of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington Fantasy becomes fact if essential evidence is omitted or misstated. Assassination researcher Fred Litwin unveils in Oliver Stone's Film-Flam how the master filmmaker has again misled the public. If you see the film, you should read the book. Judge Burt W. Griffin , Retired, Assistant Counsel, President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy [Warren Commission] In preparation for hosting Oliver Stone on my podcast, I watched his four-part four-hour documentary series JFK: Destiny Betrayed … twice. I thought I was prepared, but there are so many details in Stone’s account of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that no matter what I said Stone had another “but what about…?” What I needed was Fred Litwin’s new book, Oliver Stone’s Film-Flam, which dissects the major claims made in the film and shows them to be mistaken, exaggerated, misquoted, misunderstood, misrepresented, or taken out of context. The devil is in the details and Litwin has done the heavy lifting necessary to counter conspiracisms’ demagoguery. Everyone interested in the JFK assassination story should read this book and thank Fred Litwin for his tireless work. Michael Shermer , Founder of Skeptic Magazine and Author of Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational Nearly 60 years after JFK's assassination, questions still abound over whether suspected killer Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, or even at all. But conspiracy theories are not facts. Fred Litwin's book Oliver Stone's Film-Flam firmly undermines some of the loudest theorists of the day in point-by-point factual rebuttals in an effort to accurately preserve the integrity of this historic tragedy. While some readers' minds may not be completely persuaded as to exactly what did or did not happen in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, every reader of this book should conclude that simply being a loud conspiracy critic does not turn fiction into fact. Mark S. Zaid , National Security Attorney I have followed Fred Litwin's research and writings for some time, especially his work on the Jim Garrison case against Clay Shaw. He is a superb researcher, marshals his facts carefully, and presents very thoughtful conclusions. Anyone trying to refute him on even an individual point had best come well prepared. Don Carpenter , Author of Man of a Million Fragments: The True Story of Clay Shaw On the Trail of Delusion Jim Garrison: The Great Accuser "This book is a perfect example of good reporting -- something too often elusive in the scores of books about the JFK horror story. Scores have manufactured what they called "evidence of conspiracy," have benefited by falsifying facts and manufacturing their own "truth." This book is REAL! I lived every minute of it." Hugh Aynesworth , Author of November 22, 1963: Witness to History and JFK: Breaking the News “On the Trail of Delusion is nothing less than a masterclass on the craft of investigative writing. Brimming with new details about the toxic “Garrison investigation,” the lunatic “Permindex” conspiracy theory, and other JFK-related nonsense, Fred Litwin’s book is a must-read for all history buffs. On top of everything else, it’s wonderfully written and lavishly illustrated. Highest recommendation.” Gus Russo , Author of Brothers in Arms [with Stephen Molton] and The Outfit “Garrison must have something, I assumed - wrongly - from 1967 until the collapse of his case in 1969. Fred Litwin has dug up documents that show Garrison’s investigation was nothing like his revisionist memoir On the Trail of the Assassins or Oliver Stone’s hagiographic film JFK ." Paul Hoch , First-Generation Warren Commission Critic "Fred Litwin has conducted his own after-crash review of the Garrison investigation, pinpointing where it went wrong at every step. He has carefully studied the record, and pulls no punches in this fascinating book." Dr. Larry Haapanen , Professor at Lewis-Clark State College, Idaho, Former Researcher for the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book, and West-Coast Investigator for Jim Garrison "New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison fed a fable to the American people about President Kennedy’s assassination. Filmmaker Oliver Stone encouraged Americans to believe it. With On the Trail of Delusion , author Fred Litwin exposes Garrison’s attempt to deceive his countrymen as blatant fraud.” Anthony Summers , Author of Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination and A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice "If you want to find the real story about the claims Jim Garrison made about the assassination of JFK, don't look to the movie by Oliver Stone, read Litwin's Delusion . Uniquely, he doesn't tell you what to believe, he gives you the evidence that speaks for itself." G. Robert Blakey , Former Chief Counsel of the House Select Committee on Assassinations "Fred Litwin has written a book that will be warmly welcomed by anyone who enjoys cold war era history and even long-time students of the Garrison saga will find fresh material here. Novices to the case will no doubt be shocked by the homophobia in both Garrison’s original investigation and Stone’s film and by Prouty and Stone’s anti-Semitic remarks. Undeniably, all but the most credulous Garrison acolytes will be appalled by the demonstrable miscarriage of justice against Clay Shaw and others documented by Litwin in this fine book." Tracy Parnell , Debunking JFK Conspiracy Theories "This careful deconstruction of Jim Garrison and what Litwin describes as his “scam prosecution” is thoroughly persuasive and satisfying. It serves not only as a fast and entertaining read about the pitfalls of looking for buried truths in the JFK assassination, but also as a clarion warning of the dangers of excessive and unchecked power in the office of any prosecutor. On the Trail of Delusion has moved to the top of my “recommended” list as an antidote to Oliver Stone’s portrayal of Garrison as a dedicated truth-seeker. After finishing On the Trail of Delusion , most readers are likely to conclude that the only person who should have been charged and imprisoned as a result of Garrison’s investigation was Jim Garrison himself." Gerald Posner , Author of Cased Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK Reviews: Testimonials