High Treason 2; The Great Cover-up: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc, 1992. First Carroll & Graf edition ][stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 656 pages. Illustrations (some color). Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Harrison Livingstone, ranks among the world's most prolific investigative authors on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has been a serious writer for most of his life. An early work, "David Johnson Passed Through Here," was hailed as a ground-breaking novel about child abuse. Like many of his published books - more than two dozen now - "David Johnson" is at least partially autobiographical. This book's nine weeks on the New York Times bestseller list reflects the public's need to know the facts of the assassination of JFK. The author's new evidence and astute analysis point toward a conspiracy to kill JFK, the act itself, and the cover-up that followed. Derived from a Kirkus review: Massive companion volume to Livingstone's 1989 study of JFK-assassination evidence. Livingstone takes a narrow focus here, concentrating largely on the medical evidence, and his review of the autopsy photographs and the X-rays of JFK's body--as well as of alleged tampering with the Zapruder film--leads him to conclude that the photos and the X-rays were forged. As with other assassination books, the reporter and his methods become part of the story told: Livingstone's strongest moments come in talks with the morticians who prepared JFK's body for burial. The author has much new evidence to offer, and is good at exploding evidence put forth by others. The author comes down hard on JFK and Stone, whose myth-making, he believes, has set back Kennedy studies by ""major assassination researchers"" by years. Livingstone argues that the FBI must know that there was more than a lone gunman. He also suggests that a bullet was stolen from Kennedy's body between Parkland and Bethesda (or perhaps in Walter Reed) hospitals, and shows how the lead fragments retrieved from Governor Connally's wrist in no way match up with the notorious ""magic bullet."" Warmly written with much to weigh.