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JFK Assassination Debate By Michael L. Kurtz: Book Review

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Ana Gaona
Hist-1302-036
4/13/16
The JFK Assassination Debates Book Review
Michael L. Kurtz is an American historian born in 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kurtz is known for his research in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He supports the theory that Lee Harvey Oswald didn’t act alone in the assassination. In 1995, Kurtz testified to the Assassination Records review Board on the Kennedy assassination. Kurtz has written multiple books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy like Lee Harvey Oswald: A Reappraisal (1980) and The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian's Perspective (1982). The JFK Assassination Debate by Michael L. Kurtz gives the reader an inside look into the assassination of JFK. Michael Kurtz has dug deep going through …show more content…

Kurtz talks about Oswald’s involvement in the intelligence community, organized crimes, and his pro and anti-Castro Cuban activists. Paul Conkin liked that Kurtz had two detailed chapters involving the tortured life of Oswald. Conkin liked that conspiracy theories one that involved the American Intelligence Agencies and the other involved mobsters, but both ended up having a relationship to pro-Castro or anti-Castro. Documents and interviews that were declassified from the Assassination Records Review Board Kurtz’s is able to confirm and change his previous thoughts about Oswald’s and other pieces involving the case. The evidence on the day of the shooting Kurtz points out that Oswald had a perfect shot at Kennedy before he took his final left turn but didn’t shoot, Oswald waited till he got the car turned left which lessened Oswald’s chance on shooting Kennedy but also gave him the shot from the back of the head. This evidence confuses Kurtz as to why Oswald would wait to shoot Kennedy in the back when he had the perfect shot before the car

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