Bonar menninger biography of christopher

Zaid : "We're trying to stop this now while Hickey's still alive He doesn't want his grandchildren growing up and hearing other children say, Hey, your grandfather killed the president of the United States. George Hickey died in This time, one of those theories will be played out in federal court in Baltimore, where a former U. Secret Service agent assigned to protect John F.

Kennedy on the day of his death nearly 33 years ago is suing for libel. It's a theory - first advanced by a ballistics expert from Towson - that just won't go away. Zaid, an attorney for former agent George W. Hickey, Hickey is seeking untold damages from St. Martin's Press in New York. Kaye, chief attorney for St. Hickey's suit, filed last week in U.

District Court in Baltimore, says "Mortal Error" is simply false, and other Kennedy assassination experts agree. Published in , the page book recounts the day of the assassination and focuses on the actions of Hickey. But the numerous conspiracy theories have hidden these basic facts. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle said it best when he penned the words "once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.

Also, if you get a chance, watch the movie "JFK: The Smoking Gun", as it is a documentary about this book, the author, and a new detective who continued the investigation and came to his own conclusions. This has to be known by all! David Hamilton. An outstanding book, really, despite the fact I could never accept the fundamental assertion that it was a secret service agent riding in the convertible behind who accidentally dealt the fatal blow.

As a scientific man, I can say that the development of evidence in this mature book is absolutely astounding: ballistic theory postulated and methodically proven. I for one had to accept that previously held notions - some learned from Mark Lane - were false. The "single bullet" or "magical bullet" is true, although it didn't hang in the air for 1-point-something seconds.

The bodies of Connally and Kennedy lined up, and Connally was already turning for a second look backwards when he was pierced. A wealth of documentary evidence, including dozens a eye-witness testimony accounts that had been pigeon-holed by the Warren Commission, is not only presented but coordinated into a very coherent time sequence. A must-read if you want to pinpoint the mechanisms of a state coverup, but I think the rear horizontal shot came from a more distant unknown gunman directly behind the lead cars.

Lizanne Whitlow. Intriguing plausible theory that, if true, would certainly explain the Secret Service's inane behavior following the shooting. Jim Swike. If you think you know about Oswald and the JFK Assassination, this book will give you a lot to think about. The author presents incredible research and evidence about the shot that killed Kennedy.

Definitely worth a read. Brad Lucht. It's hard to believe I have never heard of Howard Donahue or his ballistics work. Donahue does a masterful job of laying out the physics of the assassination of President Kennedy. At each point in the story he attempts to show the Warren Commission was correct, but the facts consistently demonstrate otherwise.

For me the most startling information presented is that of the bullet analysis. The bullet fired by Oswald from his Carcano which entered through Kennedy's back, exited through his throat and then passed through Connally had a thick casing, which is deliberately designed to prevent fragmentation of the inner lead bullet. Yet the bullet that entered the back of Kennedy's head did not behave in a similar manner.

Instead, a great number of tiny lead fragments were spread throughout his brain. Tests performed on sample skulls showed that only an AR round predecessor to the M could have resulted in that dispersal. A Carcano round would have passed directly through the brain and out the front of Kennedy's face. The second intriguing piece of information is the investigation of the trajectory of the head shot.

We all know that Oswald was on the six floor of the Schoolbook Depositor, above and to the right of the presidential limousine. Yet carefully evaluation of the inshot and outshot demonstrate the line of fire was from left to right, at a much lower angle. Finally, it is somewhat incredible how much evidence disappeared after in the years after the assassination, including the president's brain and other physical autopsy evidence.

It is also curious that the Secret Service refused to refute any of the evidence presented to them There is much more, of course. Author Menninger documents Donahue's painstaking efforts to track down every lead, always trying to disprove what the facts seem to indicate. We're taught as children that it can't happen here. Donahue show's that it can.

Jesse Prupas. Mike Wigal. But Howard Donahue's lifelong pursuit of the facts, re: the ballistics of the shots, has the ring of truth. His conclusions are highly plausible. I'm surprised this book didn't get more notice. Perhaps we of my generation are too numbed by the many conspiracy theories to give any single one much credence. Author 2 books 9 followers.

Very detailed analysis of the ballistics. Single shot I doubt it. Christopher Roth. Author 3 books 36 followers. This book lays out the thesis of Harold Donahue, a ballistics expert who believed he had proven that the fatal shot that killed John F. Kennedy was fired by mistake in the confusion of the moment by one of his bodyguards, in the car behind his.

Donahue died before he could present his discoveries in his own book, and Menninger does a fine job of laying out the evidence. I especially appreciate that he takes a narrative approach, presenting the data and the questions and the leads in the order in which they arose in Donahue's investigations. This makes it all easier to keep track of. Not being a ballistics expert myself, I have no reason to believe or disbelieve anything based on ballistics evidence; it's all Greek to me; it could be half made up and sound just as convincing to me--including the assertion that shots from the Grassy Knoll are incompatible with the ballistics; hey, could be.

But I will say that I disagree with Donahue and Menninger that the significance of the theory, if true, is that it, and possibly it alone, would justify the extraordinarily suspicious-looking behavior of the government in the years following, including the intentional disposal of key pieces of evidence and the blatant whitewashing in the Warren Report.

In my opinion, the American public would NOT have a hard time assimilating the fact that the president had died from an accidental gunshot wound, and I also don't believe that a conspiracy theory is more comforting to anyone than a lone-nut gunman theory; I think the part of the public that accepts the lone-gunman theory finds it far more comforting than the alternative.

Nor do I accept that anyone was engaging in a cover-up just to protect the bodyguard in question: the U. As Menninger points out, Donahue's scenario includes other shots fired by Lee Harvey Oswald, as per the facts that nearly everyone agrees on, and indeed at the end of the day, with Oswald dead, it does not matter much which of these rapid-fire shots was the fatal one.

But we should not forget all of the other things that the Warren Commission and its sponsors and supporters have endeavored to downplay, suppress, or deny over the decades, namely that Oswald was embroiled in a network of C. It's important that we all know which bullet killed Kennedy, I suppose, but it's far more important to know who set up Oswald and why.

That's my two cents. Patrick Martin. This was a fantastic book. I realize that every conspiracy book, especially on the Kennedy assassination, makes a very strong case for their individual theory, this book seems hard to dispute if the angles and ballistics are correct. No one has apparently stepped forward to say they are wrong though. The premis of this book is that the killing as an accident, that Oswald did shoot but did not kill him, he was killed by an accidental discharge.

The book was fascinating in the way it laid out the possibility and it was also interesting to hear what the writer went through. Bottom line - oh yeah, read this one. I saw a new documentary on Netflix and it was fascinating, reveling in its conclusions about the JFK assassination. At the end it mentioned this book had come to the same conclusions back in the early 's.

So I just finished the book and finally feel as if I cracked the mystery of this event. It's a must read. Thomas N. Superb research. I think this is what really happened and the only conspiracy was the cover up. It gets a little repetitive and is a bit long. Bonar Menninger's book tells of Howard Donahue's extensive ballistics research into the assassination of President John F.

Donahue, a Maryland ballistics expert, took a long, hard look at when and where the shots were fired at Kennedy. His research came to a most startling conclusion that challenges everything that virtually everyone has held about that day in Dallas. Highly recommended. I believe this could truly be how it actually happened, it really makes a lot of sense!

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