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Page Four Moreover, the agent suggests, this history "should not be an effort at sorting out who among the critics was right or wrong At last an editor who cares about the underdog -- and from the heart of New York, at that! For readers of the new generation, new clarity can be introduced into a picture previously confusing to them. The account will give new life to the early account by Life magazine -- the sole possessor of the Zapruder film -- which explains that the bullet hole in the front of the President's throat as the result of turning to look back of him (for one more glance of the architecture of the School Book Depository Building). I can dig up Hugh Aynesworth's (of Newsweek) early description of my investigation as being based on "twin Oswalds" operating in Dallas. A major contribution would be David Lifton's earnest contention -- which he still was making in the late 1960's -- that the assassins in front of Kennedy were mounted on the platform of a large utility type cherry picker located on the grassy knoll and described as a tree. As for the Warren Report, one more accounting of that sleazy compendium would make the book a real page turner. Such an opening chapter could illuminate the fairness and compassion of the media starting with Edward Epstein's unflagging commitment to the truth all the way to the keen observation of Henry Hurt ("Garrison.. never once made the obvious connection [with the assassination of] New Orleans mob boss Carlos Marcello (P. 262, Reasonable Doubt, 1985) The honor roll would be lengthy for a single chapter, necessarily including John Manchester, Jim Bishop, Jim Phelan, Gerald Ford, Milton Brener and Robert Blakey for openers. A few more quotations from some of them would provide a colorful guide to my credibility for readers who might stay on to read the remaining chapters of the book: Paul Hoch ("I challenge Mr. Garrison to describe the evidence in his possession at the time he ordered Clay Shaw's arrest", Circa 1986/1987) Peter Dale Scott ("I have some problems with Mr. Garrison's investigations", Circa same time period). Anthony Summers ("The Garrison inquiry fizzled out in a blaze of adverse publicity -- an episode in which concern about Mafia links was conspicuously absent. In 1979 an Assassination Committee report noted that the New Orleans District Attorney met John Rosselli -- a key figure in the Mafia's relationship with the CIA -- no more than a month after Ferrie's death. The report quoted a CIA Inspector General's report, as finding this meeting, coming at the height of the New Orleans investigation, "particularly disturbing. P. 498, Conspiracy, 1980). Michael Kurzt ("During the two year