GLESBY states as if it were fact that the “Democrats stole” the 1960 election through the services of the Chicago crime boss Sam Giancana, and Lyndon Johnson, who “arbitrarily disqualified” thousands of votes in Texas. In return, JFK launched war on organized crime and was going to dump Johnson in 1964.

Kennedy angered anti-Castro exiles by closing their bases in the South; the right-wing thought he “was surrendering in the Cold War.” Kennedy provoked the CIA by “purging” Dulles, Cabell and Bissell.

Claims Oswald was a patsy, silenced by Ruby to forestall a trial, and that the Commission concluded “Oswald was one lone nut and Ruby another”; but the Commission in its chapter on “possible motivations” never called Oswald a “nut.”

Oglesby seems unable to make the Single-Bullet Theory work, implying some time lag between the wounding of both men (apparently accepting Connally’s shoulder-drop at Z238 as a bullet impact); but Connally’s right forearm springs violently upwards at about Z225, a split-second after JFK begins to raise his hands. Oglesby claims the bullet “blew out” a portion of Connally’s rib; however the HSCA Medical Panel thought it more likely pressure from the bullet missile channel cause the rib to shatter. The bullet then slapped off the wrist, leaving radius shattered with all bone present— yet Oglesby insists the bullet “went through bone.”

Oglesby wonders how Connally held “his rather heavy Stetson”; but after Z227, when it appears above car rail, the wrist is limp (the muscles allowing gripping had not been affected)—in shock, Connally held the hat involuntarily. The wounds of the two men “do not begin to line up”; but they do, as the HSCA’s trajectory analysis and the work done by Failure Analysis demonstrate.

The “small, neat” throat wound Oglesby calls “one of entrance” was confined in size by the President’s neck collar. Oglesby claims there are too many fragments from the Connally bullet to account for CE399; but those he cites never measured or weighed the fragments—Lattimer was able to make 41 fragments from three grams of lead.

Oglesby cites unlikely witnesses to frontal shot, such as Sorrels (he was actually in a sedan approaching mouth of the underpass) and Landis (who likely mistook impact of bullet on the head for a “shot”); Hudson, Sitzman and Zapruder discounted shots from fence. When Oglesby quotes William Newman saying he “thought the shot had come from the garden directly behind me,” one must wonder whether Oglesby has ever seen Newman in the Moorman photo; the “garden” is between Newman and the Depository.

Two motorcycle officers “to the left and rear” were blood-spattered; but they could have also rode into the debris as it descended after being ejected forward and upward as shown in the Zapruder film. Without challenge, Oglesby recites Gordon Arnold’s fantastic yarn; but no evidence he was even in Dallas. Oglesby implies Sam Holland “told the police that shots were fired from ‘behind that picket fence’;” but of four shots Holland claimed he heard, he placed three further up Elm, away from the knoll.

Oglesby writes; “the president’s head explodes and a cloud of red mist suddenly surrounds the back of the car”; but the “cloud” is actually at the front right side of Kennedy’s head. Oglesby adds: “the debris was blown out of the back of the head, not the front” citing the placement by Parkland staff; but how could they see a “back of the head” location if all they saw was the head in a supine position?

Oglesby’s little book apparently lacked room to include the significant fact that JFK’s head initially went forward between Z312-13. Oglesby hasn’t read his Warren Report in awhile, as he falsely credits the Commission with “jet effect.”

Oglesby recycles old chestnuts like Oswald in lunchroom “not winded” or “behaving suspiciously”; but young, lean and fit Os had merely run downstairs along a familiar route, and he had every reason to feign innocence.

“Amazingly,” no transcript or recording was made of Oswald’s interrogation; but it wasn’t standard policy to do so in 1963, the aim being to get leads or a signed confession—the police did make notes (which were published and testified to) and presented Os to a press conference.

Oglesby finds “persuasive” that the tallest tramp is Charles V. Harrelson; all were actually hobos booked by the DPD. Oglesby purports “an unidentified male called the police over Tippit’s radio.” And on it goes.