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Murder Most Foul
The Conspiracy that murdered President Kennedy
391 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1967
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November 26, 2020
I first became aware of this lost manuscript from a thread on the Education Forum, posted by Rob Couteau, shortly after the release of Bob Dylan's seventeen minute epic entitled 'Murder Most Foul' which quickly reached number one on the U.S. Billboard charts. Jim DiEugenio followed up with his article on Marks' work on the 'Kennedy's & King' website. 'Murder Most Foul! The Conspiracy that Murdered President Kennedy' was self published originally by Stanley J. Marks way back in 1967, and revived by Couteau in November 2020. After over fifty years it remains a powerful broadside against the sham that was the Warren Commission Report.
Rob Couteau includes in these three hundred and ninety pages his serendipitous encounter with MMF which he follows with a ninety page essay on the life and works of Marks. It is not until arriving at page one hundred and fifty seven that the reader encounters the 975 questions and answers contained in twelve chapters of the original first edition, which was first published from a photostat copy of the manuscript produced on a typewriter. However, its importance in its time was recognised in 1973 by the JFK Library in Boston who sent a request to the author to purchase a copy of this paperback.
Plaudits must go to Rob Couteau for recognising the books importance today.
Rob Couteau includes in these three hundred and ninety pages his serendipitous encounter with MMF which he follows with a ninety page essay on the life and works of Marks. It is not until arriving at page one hundred and fifty seven that the reader encounters the 975 questions and answers contained in twelve chapters of the original first edition, which was first published from a photostat copy of the manuscript produced on a typewriter. However, its importance in its time was recognised in 1973 by the JFK Library in Boston who sent a request to the author to purchase a copy of this paperback.
Plaudits must go to Rob Couteau for recognising the books importance today.
December 6, 2024
A painful read. Think an Iron Maiden for the eyes.
Because it was an rather early work, Marks wrote it in 1969 and passed away in 1999 without seeing this work published, I thought perhaps it would contain something original. Nope. Same old dog-eared suspicions that the conspiracy community still throws around despite them having been repudiated. Like that old business about the Mannlicker-Carcano being switched for Mauser.
I read a piece by Rob Couteau where he raves about that scene:
“Later in the play, in a wonderful cross-pollination with nonfiction, King uses a slide project\or to display Deputy Sheriff Weitzman’s affidavit, which testifies to the fact that Weitzman discovered a German Mauser inside the Texas School Book Depository. But of course, Weitzman was later compelled to alter his testimony to match a new “script,” now claiming that the rifle in question must have been an Italian Mannlicher-Carcano all along. This despite the fact that he was a firearms expert who would never have made such a foolish error.”
OH MY GOD!
An hour after the shots rang out in the Dealey Plaza, near the stairs in the north-west corner of the sixth floor Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman noticed a bolt action rifle with a telescopic sight hidden between a stack of boxes. The crime lab photographer was called. While waiting for the photographer, Police Captain John Fritz arrived and poked his head between the boxes to see the rifle. He remarked, “It looks like 7.65-millimeter Mauser.” Weitzman, who had not gone near the rifle and claimed to have only had “a glance” at it, agreed. The next day Weitzman misidentified the Mannlicker-Carcano as a Mauser in an affidavit. The Dallas press, then TV news picked up the story and reported the rifle’s misidentification.
It was a mistake. An easy mistake, since the Mannlicker-Carcano is “a modified Mauser.”
Couteau claims Weitzman was “compelled to alter his testimony” for which he has no proof to support. Couteau claims Weitzman “was a firearms expert who would never have made such a foolish error.” Weitzman said it was a mistake! And let’s talk “experts” and “foolish error.” Weitzman wasn’t a “firearms expert,” he sold sporting goods.
In Reclaiming History, Bugliosi makes the observation that when “conspiracy authors” are faced with evidence that invalidates their theories or repudiates their accusations that they do one of two things, “Twist, warp, and distort the evidence, or simply ignore it.” Couteau and DiEugenio are certainly guilty of this. I don’t know about Marks. He may be innocent by reason of dead.
”
Because it was an rather early work, Marks wrote it in 1969 and passed away in 1999 without seeing this work published, I thought perhaps it would contain something original. Nope. Same old dog-eared suspicions that the conspiracy community still throws around despite them having been repudiated. Like that old business about the Mannlicker-Carcano being switched for Mauser.
I read a piece by Rob Couteau where he raves about that scene:
“Later in the play, in a wonderful cross-pollination with nonfiction, King uses a slide project\or to display Deputy Sheriff Weitzman’s affidavit, which testifies to the fact that Weitzman discovered a German Mauser inside the Texas School Book Depository. But of course, Weitzman was later compelled to alter his testimony to match a new “script,” now claiming that the rifle in question must have been an Italian Mannlicher-Carcano all along. This despite the fact that he was a firearms expert who would never have made such a foolish error.”
OH MY GOD!
An hour after the shots rang out in the Dealey Plaza, near the stairs in the north-west corner of the sixth floor Deputy Constable Seymour Weitzman noticed a bolt action rifle with a telescopic sight hidden between a stack of boxes. The crime lab photographer was called. While waiting for the photographer, Police Captain John Fritz arrived and poked his head between the boxes to see the rifle. He remarked, “It looks like 7.65-millimeter Mauser.” Weitzman, who had not gone near the rifle and claimed to have only had “a glance” at it, agreed. The next day Weitzman misidentified the Mannlicker-Carcano as a Mauser in an affidavit. The Dallas press, then TV news picked up the story and reported the rifle’s misidentification.
It was a mistake. An easy mistake, since the Mannlicker-Carcano is “a modified Mauser.”
Couteau claims Weitzman was “compelled to alter his testimony” for which he has no proof to support. Couteau claims Weitzman “was a firearms expert who would never have made such a foolish error.” Weitzman said it was a mistake! And let’s talk “experts” and “foolish error.” Weitzman wasn’t a “firearms expert,” he sold sporting goods.
In Reclaiming History, Bugliosi makes the observation that when “conspiracy authors” are faced with evidence that invalidates their theories or repudiates their accusations that they do one of two things, “Twist, warp, and distort the evidence, or simply ignore it.” Couteau and DiEugenio are certainly guilty of this. I don’t know about Marks. He may be innocent by reason of dead.
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