DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
The webpage linked below contains many of my favorite quotes from Vincent Bugliosi's 2007 JFK book, "Reclaiming History". Enjoy....
JOHN CORBETT SAID:
Great stuff, David. A great compilation of VB's best. I've always admired how he is able to zero in like a laser beam on the conspiracy hobbyists' myths and completely destroy them. Of course they just pick up the pieces and try to put their Humpty Dumpty theories together again.
DAVID EMERLING SAID:
You [DVP] picked some excellent excerpts from Bugliosi's book. Those same portions resonated with me when I read the book. I can see they resonated with you, as well. The logic is compelling, to say the least.
It amazes me how anybody can read this book and say something stupid like,
"I still believe Oswald was just a patsy."
I think it's hilarious that the biggest complaint CTs have about the book is that it's so big. I blame THEM for it's thickness since it forced Bugliosi to address all their silliness. And there's LOTS of silliness!
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Another common complaint is that Bugliosi is too snarky. That's his style. But it doesn't change the substance! Bugliosi was a very successful prosecutor. He's confident. He highlights ridiculous assertions. Hell, he managed to get Charles Manson locked up for LIFE and Manson neither killed anybody nor was he even present at the crime scene.
If you get a speeding ticket and decide to contest it, if Bugliosi walks in the room, you'll probably end up getting a lethal injection for doing 50 in a 35 mph zone.
"Reclaiming History" is to the CTs as garlic is to vampires.
ANTHONY MARSH SAID:
You [DVP] probably can't remember all my complaints about Bugliosi's book. Google it.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Who cares what your "complaints" are/were? I sure don't.
And of course you've got plenty of complaints about Mr. Bugliosi's outstanding and comprehensive tome. What else would we expect from a CTer---praise for a "Lone Assassin" book? (Duh!)
For heaven's sake, you find lots of things to complain about even when you agree with somebody, Tony. So, naturally, you've attempted at various times to rip "Reclaiming History" to shreds.
But you (and all other CTers) have failed miserably in that endeavor.
Now, back on topic.....
"In a city of more than 700,000 people, what is the probability of one of them being the owner and possessor of the weapons that murdered both Kennedy and Tippit, and yet still be innocent of both murders? Aren't we talking about DNA numbers here, like one out of several billion or trillion? Is there a mathematician in the house?" -- Vince Bugliosi; Page 964 of "RH"
ANTHONY MARSH SAID:
I have complimented some WC defender books sometimes. Maybe they get as much as 2% of the facts right. [LOL.]
BRENDAN SLATTERY SAID:
Tell us for the millionth time how you rudely called him [Vincent Bugliosi] a liar to his face, Tony. I'm sure he was really flustered by that broadside.
ANTHONY MARSH SAID:
I went to his lecture [at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 22, 2007] and hand delivered a letter to him pointing out that HIS LIES are a major reason why so many people believe there was a conspiracy. Then when he lied in the lecture, I said, "That's a lie." He WAS flustered.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
What did Vince say that you labelled a "lie", Tony? I'd be interested in knowing exactly what it was.
ANTHONY MARSH SAID:
I know you wouldn't, but it was that the police believed that weekend that Oswald acted alone and that there was no conspiracy. The parallel to the other recent shootings is interesting. In Dallas [on July 7, 2016], the police immediately thought it was a conspiracy with multiple shooters because the shooter moved around and used more than one weapon.
One of the better experts on MSNBC even made that comparison. It took them a few hours to figure out that it was a lone shooter. Likewise in the recent shooting in Baton Rouge, the early theory was that there was one shooter and 2 accomplices. BTW, that would make it a conspiracy.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Oh, sure, Tony. The thing you labelled as a "lie" during Vince Bugliosi's 2007 Cambridge appearance must be why we have all kinds of quotes from the weekend of November 22-24, 1963, coming from the likes of Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry and Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade and Homicide Captain Will Fritz, to the effect that it was the opinion of each of those men that OSWALD AND OSWALD ALONE had murdered President Kennedy and Officer Tippit.
E.G.,
JESSE CURRY (11/23/63) -- "I think this is the man [Lee Oswald] that killed the President."
REPORTER -- "Is there any evidence that anyone else may have been linked with Oswald to this shooting?"
CURRY -- "At this time, we don't believe so."
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HENRY WADE (11/23/63) -- "There's no one else but him [Oswald], so far."
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REPORTER (11/24/63) -- "Are you absolutely sure that Oswald was the assassin of the President?"
WILL FRITZ -- "Yes, sir. No question about it."
REPORTER -- "Are you still convinced he was in this by himself when he shot the President?"
FRITZ -- "Yes, I am. .... I don't think there's anyone else."
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David Von Pein
July 14-20, 2016
July 14-16, 2016
