Harold Weisberg (1913–2002)
Autor de Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report
Sobre El Autor
Harold Weisberg 1924 - 2002 Harold Weisberg was born in 1924 in Philadelphia and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. Weisberg went on to become a journalist and then an investigator for the Senate Committee on Civil Liberties, as well as an analyst for the Office of Strategic Services World War II. mostrar más Weisberg retired from his job and had become a Maryland chicken farmer and writer when John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas in 1963. Weisberg detested the way the government investigated the assassination and published a response out of his own pocket stating that the decision reached by the Warren Commission was inconclusive with the evidence collected. This response was entitled "Whitewash" and published in 1965. Weisberg followed with another book published by Dell and titled "Whitewash II" in 1966, which questions the tie sequence accepted by the Warren Commission. He wrote four more sequels to his original; each one devoted to different evidence from the Warren Commission as well as documents he himself uncovered using the Freedom of Information Act. In fact, when Weisberg died he had collected over 250,000 government papers on the assassination. His devotion to the truth about what happened that day inspired Jim Garrison, a New Orleans District Attorney to search out and prosecute conspiracy suspects. Garrison's hunt was the basis for the Oliver Stone movie JFK that Weisberg called a "monumental piece of disinformation." Weisberg also disliked the way the government handled the investigation into the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. He was hired as an investigator for James Earl Ray and believed that Ray was innocent of the crime. He wrote yet another book on this investigation called "Frame-Up" which was published in 1971. While Weisberg wrote about and critiqued the government, he had his own critics as well and most of his books were not well supported. In 1979, Weisberg was able to see some of his claims given merit when the final report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Kennedy's death was probably the result of a conspiracy and criticized the Warren Commission for failing to properly investigate the claim of conspiracy. Harold Weisberg died on February 21, 2002 at the age of 88 in his home in Frederick, Maryland. mostrar menos
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1913-04-08
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2002-02-21
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Frederick, Maryland, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Frederick, Maryland, USA
- Educación
- University of Delaware
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
author
Poultry farmer - Organizaciones
- Office of Strategic Services
State Department
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Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report, Report… por Harold Weisberg
The first public release of detailed fact-finding and judgement about the JFK assassination.
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Forty six years after the death of Kennedy the case against Oswald continues to facinate me. I just discovered I have this 1955 book Whitewash by Harold Weisman among my collection. Unlike so many of the other books it makes a case not for or against Oswald, but as a criticism of the Warren Comission Report. Weisberg emphasizes that had Oswald lived his trial, conducted according to US law, would have been the test of his innocence. rel="nofollow" target="_top">http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/chapter-5.html#int...
We now have documents on line about what happened, but it is amazing that no proper recordings or formal transcripts were made of Oswald's many hours of interrogation. Further the fact that given the importance of this crime the Police themselves did not take it upon them to call his preferred lawyer, not leaving him to wonder how he could make a long distance telephone call to locate his preferred lawyer. He was killed before he even had had an opportunity to hire a lawyer. It is an amazing lack of proper Police work as the lawyer claims. This book is still of interest, despite the additional investigation that revealed the same results.… (más)
We now have documents on line about what happened, but it is amazing that no proper recordings or formal transcripts were made of Oswald's many hours of interrogation. Further the fact that given the importance of this crime the Police themselves did not take it upon them to call his preferred lawyer, not leaving him to wonder how he could make a long distance telephone call to locate his preferred lawyer. He was killed before he even had had an opportunity to hire a lawyer. It is an amazing lack of proper Police work as the lawyer claims. This book is still of interest, despite the additional investigation that revealed the same results.… (más)
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- Popularidad
- #124,899
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 32