Reclaiming History

One of these days perhaps I will subtitle this web log the Book Blog, for many posts have something to do with books. And so it is the case tonight.

I have written earlier of the book I continue to read -- Reclaiming History by Vincent Bugliosi. I am now in the chapter on Oswald killer, Jack Ruby.

The great value of this book is the tremendous amount of honest research behind it. But just as important is the mind behind the book, that of perhaps the premiere prosecutor in America. The interesting thing to see is how this famed prosecutor, author of Helter Skelter goes about exonerating people right and left even as he bears in on Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole killer of John F. Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States.

And what a terrific national service this book is in laying to rest the various and sundry claims of other assassins and co-conspirators. If we can have one less pernicious mystery surrounding this country so much the better.

I still have about three hundred pages to go, having already perused 1100 pages! One day soon I plan to be able to say I have completed Bugliosi's 1400-page masterwork. Just don't plan to quiz me on all its details!