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By Carla Norton, Christine McGuire

ISBN-10: 0062284525

ISBN-13: 9780062284525

Known as the "sex slave," and "the lady within the box" case, this is often the tale in the back of Colleen Stan's terrifying, seven-year-long imprisonment via Cameron Hooker as informed by way of the district legal professional who attempted the case. Too extraordinary to be whatever yet actual, it's a story of riveting depth and gripping court drama.

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That while Oswald was being treated, I was called to a telephone in the operating room, where I talked with President Lyndon Johnson, who told me that there was a person present in the op­ erating room to take a death-bed confession from Oswald. I was both hurt and angered by the attacks on my credibility in the lAMA articles. I consider them to be distortions of the facts and to be mean-spirited in their tone. I will not engage in requital, nor will I resort to the inflammatory and damaging rhetoric used against me.

The situation with respect to the character of the weapon that is said to have fired the fatal shots is at least equally significant. As Harold Weisberg in Whitewash (1965), Peter Model and Robert Groden in lFK: The Case for Conspiracy (1976), and Robert Groden and Harrison Livingstone in High Treason (1989), have all previously observed, the Mannlicher-Carcano that is alleged to have belonged to Oswald is not a high-velocity weapon. It follows that either the wounds have been misdescribed as having been caused by high-velocity bullets in the au­ topsy report, The Warren Report, and lAMA, or else Oswald has been wrongly accused of killing JFK.

2799, right-hand column: how could tracking the neck wound have been "criminal"? How could a proper autopsy be completed in its absence? p. 2800, center column: to conduct a proper autopsy, the clothes were necessary, so how could a proper autopsy be conducted without them? p. 2800, right-hand column: if the wounds could not be adequately de­ scribed in words, why were the photographs not provided? Drawings, like memories, can be distorted; there might be many sets of photographs. p. 2800, right-hand column: repeatedly this author begs the question by asserting that views at variance with those of the Warren Commission are "crazy conspiracy theories coming out of the woodwork".

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