Unbiased (?) endorsements for Bill Davy's book
Dave Reitzes
> Subject: Re: New Major Reference: "Let Justice Be Done" - Author: William
Davy
> Date: 21 May 1999 00:00:00 GMT
> Message-ID: <7i2r41$s0m$1...@autumn.news.rcn.net>
>
> You've seen JFK, the movie. In Let Justice Be Done go beyond the Garrison
> probe with many new and startling revelations. A brilliant investigation."
>
> -William Turner, former FBI agent and author of Deadly Secrets and
> Hoover's FBI
>
>
> "Bill Davy's research is breathtaking as he demonstrates elegantly, allowing
> his extraordinary evidence
> to speak for itself, that Jim Garrison did indeed "have something."
> Marshalling newly released
> government documents, and his own extraordinary interviews, Davy goes a
> long way toward
> vindicating Jim Garrison. This splendid and important new book is a must
> for any reader
> seeking the truth about the assassination of President Kennedy."
>
> - Joan Mellen, Professor of English, Temple University and author of
> Hellman and Hammett
>
>
> And, as always, folks DO NOT listen to newsgroup-assault poster "Dave
> Reitzes"
>
> Get the REAL damn story..........
>
>
> -Derek
>
Strange how Derek wants so badly for folks to ignore me. Have I ever
suggested that Derek's views should be ignored? Why, no, not at all. In
fact, I have asked Derek DOZENS of times to elaborate upon his views, even
to debate me on the issues he seems to find important. Yet he has never
taken me up on such offers, and has steadfastly refused to answer any of
the questions I've posted for him.
Well, anyway, let's see who Derek turns to when he wants the "REAL damn
story" on Garrison. There's Bill Davy, of course, whose book I review at:
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/davy.htm
Derek has never responded in any way to this review. I take it he has
nothing to say about the matter.
Then Derek cites the two endorsement quotes from Bill Davy's book jacket.
And who are these folks whose opinions Derek trusts? Bill Turner, of
course, is familiar to most of us. He worked alongside Garrison for a bit.
Turner has done some good investigative work in his time; it's a shame he
uncritically repeats many of Garrison's assertions as fact in his writing.
Since Turner was a personal friend of Garrison's, I'm surprised Derek
would cite his opinion on Davy's book.
Then there's Joan Mellen, who was also a personal friend of Garrison's,
and recently wrote a sadly misinformed review of Patricia Lambert's *False
Witness* for the Baltimore Sun. Mellen was also once married to someone
named Ralph Schoenman, though I haven't been able to confirm whether or
not this was THE Ralph Schoenman, friend and advisor to Jim Garrison in
the late 1960s. Oddly, Bill Davy and Jim DiEugenio, in their own *Probe*
review of *False Witness,* cite the Baltimore Sun review to put Lambert in
her place, without ever informing *Probe* readers that Joan Mellen, a
personal friend of Jim Garrison's, was the author. Davy doesn't mind
quoting such a questionable source on his jacket copy, and Derek Larsson
has no qualms about using Mellen's opinion either. The implication would
seem to be that no one outside Garrison's circle of friends would endorse
Davy's book.
Go figure.
Dave Reitzes
"Who Speaks for Clay Shaw?"
http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/shaw1.htm