Reply #27: I've read it and it's excellent.

[SheilaT]

Anyone who wants to learn about the assassination who's not old enough to remember those days well, should start with the William Manchester book The Death of a President. Among other things, it's important to remember that all of the "evidence" about a second shooter and CIA and Mafia and all the other supposed plots are late fabrications.

Over the years I've read several other books about the assassination, including a couple that present seemingly plausible "proof" that someone other than Oswald did it. Often, they are simply making up what they want to believe, sort of like Republicans who think the Health Care Bill destroys jobs. Or the wonderful Obama Kenyan birth certificates Orly Taitz has come up with.

Another good book is Gerald Posner's Case Closed. But what I love about the Bugliosi book is how he goes detail by detail over everything. Or as close to everything as is realistic, because at some point as I recall, when discussing some trivial detail or another related to the assassination, he finally says that there's no point in going over it any more because conspiracists out there simply invent new "what if's" all the time.