The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald - Softcover

Brown, Walt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786700815 ISBN 13: 9780786700813

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1994

Synopsis

This exciting new book puts Lee Harvey Oswald on trial, literally. It begins by asking what would have happened if Oswald had not been shot by Jack Ruby. The book assumes that a trial would have taken place and goes on to give a "re-enactment" of that trial, complete with testimony from almost 200 witnesses.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

In a brilliantly conceived but workmanlike courtroom drama built around the testimonies of more than 175 actual witnesses to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, having survived Jack Ruby's attempt to assassinate him, goes on trial in late 1964 for the murder of the president and is acquitted. Brown, a historian and former special agent of the Justice Department, makes a strong case that Oswald was the patsy for a professional conspiracy. Oswald's fictive defense attorney, youthful Edward Barnes, the Minnesota kid, riddles holes in the flimsy case mounted by highstrung, 50ish Texas prosecuting attorney Raymond Matthews, who sees the trial as his ticket to fame. In Brown's persuasive argument, there is overwhelming evidence that Oswald did not pull the trigger on any rifle aimed over Dealey Plaza, and that the Dallas police, federal officials and pathologists suppressed or destroyed key evidence. Regrettably, Brown does not explore the conspiracy angle beyond suggesting that the CIA, the Mafia, oil companies and the military all had strong motives to eliminate Kennedy, and the narrative, which may engage history and legal buffs, proceeds at the tedious pace of most actual trials. An epilogue skewers the Warren Commission's lone-assassin scenario and its apologists.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0786700815
• ISBN 13: 9780786700813
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656