The Two Faces of Lee Harvey Oswald [Kindle Edition]

My review is on the comments made specifically from David R Von Pein. Number one JFK was late & 10 min before the motorcade arrived, Lee Harvey Oswald was seen eating in the lunch room on the 2nd floor. 90 seconds after the last shot Officer Marion Baker spotted Oswald in the same room drinking a coke, calm & not aggitated. There were 3 shells on the 6th floor, although one had a dent in it. But the 1st rifle found was a German Mauser 7.5 not the Manlicer. This was found & verified by 3 deputy sherrifs, one who had a sporting goods store, all three very familar with rifles. Oswald's rifle was not even tested to see if it had been fired that day. There were no nitrates on his face from the paraffin tests, but some on his hands which could have come from the ink in the boxes. Meaning he did not fire a rifle that day, unless he was wearing a plastic mask. The bag found before the FBI destroyed it & made a new one was not long enough to carry a Manlicer Carcano even broken down. The palm print on the rifle was not found byt the FBI, & was not found until after OSwalds death. If you look at the Zapruder film, as JFK comes out from the sign, there is a splinter on the windshield just below the mirror proving a frontal shot as all the doctors at Parkland stated he received in his neck. Several reporters stated that there was a bullet hole in the windshield the size of a #2 pencil. My brother is a police investigator with over 30yrs experience including Army Intel & told me while at the book depository that there is a live oak tree just past the one it was said he couldn't have made the 1st shot at that time. He told me that between the two trees 3 shots could not have been shot even with an automatic rifle. If you look at the autopsy photo you can see a bullet hole above the right temple, Fr Huber who gave JFK the last rites stated that there was a bullet hole in his right temple. You have to be a moron to not realize that the last shot was a frontal shot, I don't care about fantasies like jet wash effect. I have talked to several police officers including my brother that state there is no way a body is going to move violently towards the shot period. I have studied the assassination for over 20yrs (I was 12 when JFK was shot) & I took a college course on it, in where I already knew 90% of what the professor was teaching. Oswald could not have made it to the 2nd floor in time to be found by police in the 90 seconds that passed. Having 1st crossed the room zig-zag around many boxes, whipped the rifle (all while his heart is beating like crazy - hopefully he won't get caught), run down the stairs, pass two women who do not see anyone & be on the 2nd floor drinking a coke cool & collected instead of making it out the building so he couldn't get caught. The whole case against him is ridiculous. The rifle had to be fitted with shims because the FBI couldn't fire it accurately. Not one of the professional riflemen duplicated what Oswald was accused of. They fired at stationary targets 30 ft down below not moving targets over 60 ft down & going away from them. Not one of them hit their targets in the neck & head area. You have to be a real moron to believe what the FBI & the Warren Commission accused Oswald of.

Fleming has written a dramatic and partial account of the assassinaton from Oswald's eyes. As such don't expect this book to dwell too long on the whys and wherefores of the number of bullets, the grassy knoll etc etc But taken as a piece of drama this is one of the best alternative accounts of the JFK Assassination that exists in print today. Steadily paced, Fleming perfectly captures the pandemonium of the Dallas Police Department in the days following the assassination - and while some might criticise Fleming's basic premise (that Oswald was a patsy) as a piece of drama it can't be faulted is deserving of the highest praise. What are you waiting for screenwriters?

This is a superb piece of writing, looking at the assassination through the eyes of Oswald, desparately trying to find a way out of the situation he is in up to his neck and the water is rising.

OK this is written as fiction, but there is the bonus in knowing that maybe, just maybe Oswald wasn't the 'lone nut'( Which I don't believe by the way)and he was part of a big larger conspiracy with Ferrie a pivotal player.

Excellent!