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The book reviewed by Jim DiEugenio:http://www.ctka.net/2010/bite-elephant.html

Posner says of Rodger's six questions, "They don't go anywhere." Gerald, they don't go where YOU want to go.Bugliosi proffers fifty-three (53) points which PROVE Oswald's guilt. Bugliosi relies heavily on a liar who wasn't at ANY "show-up" (lineup).Rahn swears by the thoroughly discredited Neutron Activation Analysis test. This test absolutely proves without a doubt that the Alien Autopsy reallyreallyreally happened at Roswell.It's got so bad for the Warrenati that Larry Dunkel can't GIVE his safes away.

Phil Dragoo wrote:Posner says of Rodger's six questions, "They don't go anywhere." Gerald, they don't go where YOU want to go.Bugliosi proffers fifty-three (53) points which PROVE Oswald's guilt. Bugliosi relies heavily on a liar who wasn't at ANY "show-up" (lineup).Rahn swears by the thoroughly discredited Neutron Activation Analysis test. This test absolutely proves without a doubt that the Alien Autopsy reallyreallyreally happened at Roswell.It's got so bad for the Warrenati that Larry Dunkel can't GIVE his safes away.Larry Dunkel can't GIVE his safes away. Priceless Phil.

Howard Brennan tells his story from his book "Eyewitness to History" that came out in 1987 4 years after his death.http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/history/Th ... /misc.html

I especially liked the ending of the review...The main part of Remington's discussion of Rahn, deals with his attempt to get a counter-article published in the same journal. Which he ultimately failed to do. He was only allowed to write a brief letter to the editor. And Rahn was allowed to answer it. Then, in 2006, Eric Randich and Pat Grant got their milestone essay published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences. This was followed in 2007 by the work of Cliff Spiegelman and Bill Tobin, for which Spiegelman won an award. (See here.) So in retrospect, the desperate attempt by Rahn and Sturdivan to get their paper published in Budapest, seems like a Hail Mary pass with time expired in the game. And as Rodger points out, the issue in which Sturdivan and Rahn were published in was a tribute to Vincent Guinn! The man who first used (actually misused) the test to convict Oswald for the House Select Committee on Assassinations.As to the quality of the scholarship within, Rodger gives us a taste of it through some quotes attributed to Sturdivan. These are some of his points:1) NAA eliminates all conspiracy theories that involved additional shooters.2) NAA proved that none of the fragments were planted3) NAA proved the rifle was not planted4) NAA proved that the precise locations of JFK's head wounds and back wounds were not needed to solve the case5) It supported the Single Bullet Theory6) It knit together the physical evidence into an airtight case against Oswald, thereby putting the matter to rest.Quite a series of claims in light of the fact that the alleged science of NAA was soon be negated by the two teams of researchers named above. To the point that the FBI and courts will not use it again. It is further rendered ridiculous by the work of John Hunt, Gary Aguilar, and Josiah Thompson, which proves that CE 399 was not fired that day, and the bullet found at Parkland Hospital was later switched. (See my review of Reclaiming History, part 7, Section 3) All this shows just how out of touch with the facts Rahn and Sturdivan really are.Rodger Remington's work is not for everyone. He is a classic type of researcher in that he stays within the boundaries of the Warren Commission materials. There is no discussion of Kennedy and Vietnam, of Oswald and the CIA, of Ruby and the Mafia etc. There is no development of the revelations of the ARRB. But if you can allow for that, it's a rewarding book. As for me, there is no amount of dirt that can cover the withering corpse of the Warren Commission. So any further burial is always welcome.