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273:(LWT) to "prosecute" Lee Harvey Oswald as the alleged assassin of President Kennedy in a proposed twenty-one hour television trial to be shown in England and several other countries, including the United States. I immediately had misgivings. Up to then, I had consistently turned down offers to appear on television in artificial courtroom settings. But when I heard more of what LWT was contemplating, my misgivings quickly dissolved. Although this could not be the real trial of Oswald...LWT, working with a large budget, had conceived and was putting together the closest thing to a real trial of Oswald that there would likely ever be, the trial in London being the only "prosecution" of Oswald ever conducted with the real witnesses in the Kennedy assassination. Through painstaking and dogged effort, LWT had managed to locate and persuade most of these original key lay witnesses, many of whom had refused to even talk to the media for years, to testify...There would be absolutely no script...and no actors would be used. 335:"history is not being reclaimed, it is being reframed...by Bugliosi's knowingly omitting and citing material out of context. Examples similar to Bugliosi’s selective presentation of the bullet evidence abound...His incessant hurling of slurs...inevitably carries a whiff of buffoonery and anxious self-promotion about it. And that’s particularly the case when he’s flat-out wrong on the facts." The reviewer for 38: 370:, wrote that "Bugliosi is a courtroom lawyer, not a historian or investigative journalist. He is clearly more interested in arguing his case than in sorting with an open mind through the piles of evidence that have been amassed over the years...Trying to claim the anti-conspiracy corner as his own, he attempts to muscle 334:
sees merit in some aspects of the book, writing that "there is no denying that Bugliosi's herculean effort is a historic and important contribution", but is critical of Bugliosi's selective approach to evidence and use of slurs against critics of the Warren Commission. The reviewer observes that:
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Bugliosi based much of the book on his preparation for a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald staged by British television, in which he acted as the prosecutor of Oswald. The mock trial involved an actual US judge and US citizens acting as jurors, and Oswald was defended by prominent trial lawyer
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is to "dismantle theories one by one, in sometimes tedious and overladen detail...Bugliosi does himself and his argument no favors with his tone of flippancy and dismissiveness"; nevertheless they describe the book as "oddly fascinating".
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wrote: "Mr Bugliosi... has turned up no new killer fact. His technique instead is to expose the double-think and distortions of the conspiracy theorists." Reviewing the book's introduction and sections on
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wrote: "Bugliosi is refreshing because he doesn’t just pick apart the conspiracy theorists. He ridicules them, and by name, writing that 'most of them are as kooky as a $ 3 bill.'" Alex Kingsbury of
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The book is divided into several parts, including a detailed chronology of the events of the assassination, as well as an exploration of numerous conspiracy theories, a chapter on the trial of
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off his turf, attacking his fellow conspiracy critic for his distortions and omissions. But Bugliosi is equally guilty of cooking the facts to make his case."
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for the Best Fact Crime category. Bugliosi explored the issues at length; the book is 1,632 pages. It was published with an accompanying
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My professional interest in the Kennedy assassination dates back to March 1986 when I was approached by a British production company,
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described it as "the most exhaustive of the countless narratives that have been written about that fateful day in Dallas."
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containing an additional 1,000+ pages of footnotes. He analyzed both the assassination itself and the rise of the
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He said it was the work of which he was most proud. Comparing its sales to those for his 1974 bestseller
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It concentrated on the events of the assassination and aftermath. This version was adapted for the movie
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that in the preceding seven years, he had devoted 80 to 100 hours per week working on the book.
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pounds and costs $ 57 and has over 10,000 citations and a million and a half words."
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In 2008, Bugliosi published a shorter paperback edition of this book, titled
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Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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In discussing publication of this version in a 2009 interview with
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expresses similar sentiments, observing that while the point of
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Video of Vincent Bugliosi discussing JFK assassination
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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Vincent Bugliosi
True crime
John F. Kennedy assassination
Lee Harvey Oswald
W. W. Norton & Company
hardcover
Audible.com
Amazon Kindle
ISBN
0-393-04525-0
OCLC
80180151
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
Vincent Bugliosi
assassination
United States President
John F. Kennedy
Lee Harvey Oswald
Jack Ruby
Warren Report
Edgar Award
CD-ROM
conspiracy theories about the event
Parkland
Gerry Spence
London Weekend Television
Cynthia McFadden

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