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Synopsis:
In A Lie Too Big to Fail, longtime Kennedy researcher (of both JFK and RFK) Lisa Pease lays out, in meticulous detail, how witnesses with evidence of conspiracy were silenced by the Los Angeles Police Department; how evidence was deliberately altered and, in some instances, destroyed; and how the justice system and the media failed to present the truth of the case to the public. Pease reveals how the trial was essentially a sham, and how the prosecution did not dare to follow where the evidence led.
A Lie Too Big to Fail asserts the idea that a government can never investigate itself in a crime of this magnitude. Was the convicted Sirhan Sirhan a willing participant? Or was he a mind-controlled assassin? It has fallen to independent researchers like Pease to lay out the evidence in a clear and concise manner, allowing readers to form their theories about this event. Pease places the history of this event in the context of the era and provides shocking overlaps between other high-profile murders and attempted murders of the time. Lisa Pease goes further than anyone else in proving who likely planned the assassination, who the assassination team members were, and why Kennedy was deemed such a threat that he had to be taken out before he became President of the United States.
Review:
I was very young when Robert Kennedy was shot, so I only remember the fall out and seeing random pictures on TV on the anniversary dates, but I know how it affected both of my parents. My mother in particular, felt like everything her generation had attempted to achieve had been stopped. In some ways that was probably true, when you look at it end being part of the 4 movement leaders who were killed.
While I knew about the conspiracy theories and evidence for the Dallas Kennedy assassination, this one I did not. Pease does an EXCELLENT job in laying out ALL the evidence. First she tells the story via a TIMELINE, as events happened. This alone makes the reader start shaking their head, and going "wait a minute..." Then she breaks down the evidence and the later trial. Because she shows where evidence WAS tampered with, where polygraphs were done incorrectly, where witnesses were made to RETRACT statements, you get a very clear understanding of just how mangled the investigation was, from literally the MOMENT the shooting happened.
After reading this book, it's a wonder anyone trusts in the criminal justice system at all. BUT having said that, unlike Pease, I have seen where it has changed and the SCIENCE stands and makes/breaks cases. Evidence and trial science HAVE changed and I do not believe that ALL of the mistakes made in 1968 would have been able to have today. Mainly because social media would have SO much info out, it would be impossible for so much to be hidden, as it was in 1968. For any person who loves history, this is an invaluable read, and one everyone should read!
About the Author:
Lisa Pease, a lifelong information activist, became a researcher while trying to win arguments on the Internet about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. She found that her arguments were more persuasive when she backed them up with cold, hard data. Before she knew it, she had accumulated a massive library of books (including a full 26-volume set of Warren Commission Report), recordings, clippings and documents on these cases. When she discovered that the Los Angeles Police Department's records of the Robert Kennedy assassination were available at her local library, she spent many lunch hours, nights and weekends pouring through the files on microfilm to research that bizarre case. Lisa Pease co-editor and publisher of Probe Magazine (1995-2000). Lisa has been a featured speaker at several seminars in Dallas and Los Angeles. Lisa Pease is also the co-editor with James DiEugenio of The Assassinations (2003) that covers the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Malcolm X. She is also the chief archivist of the Real History Archives website.
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