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 | | From: | Scooter D | | Subject: | Re: New e-mail address | | Date: | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:31:56 GMT |
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material, I didn't feel that they were continually relying on
questionable sources or witnesses, or consistently distorting or
fabricating the record. As I have mentioned, the book can be
criticized and questioned-and dismissed-on other grounds, but, as
far as I can see, not on those two.
Dubious Davis
Such is not the case with John Davis' foray into Kennedy
biography. The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster 1848-1983, was
published in 1984, before Davis became the chief spokesman for
the anti-Garrison/Mob-did-it wing of the ramified assassination
research community. In its very title, his book is deceptive in a
couple of interesting ways. First, from the dates included, it
implies that the book will be a multigenerational family saga
tracing the clan from Joe Kennedy's parents down to youngest
brother Teddy. But of the book's 648 pages of text, about 400
deal with the life and death of John F. Kennedy. And more than
half of those deal with his presidency. In no way is the book an
in-depth family profile. Secondly, as any school boy knows, the
word dynasty denotes a series or succession of at least three or
more rulers. So Jack Kennedy's two years an
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