Mortal Error

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In 1967, a Baltimore man named Howard Donahue began investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like countless Americans, Donahue was fascinated by the events in Dallas. But what separated him from other amateur sleuths, and even the Warren Commission experts, was a lifetime's experience with guns and ballistics.
In the years ahead, these two attributes, plus bulldoglike tenacity, would carry Donahue on a spellbinding journey back to that tragic day in 1963. Thanks to his understanding of ballistics—and some remarkable luck—Donahue was able to spot discrepancies in the evidence that had been missed both by the Warren Commission experts and by critics of the Commission's Report. So he kept digging, trying to understand. And finally Donahue pieced together the facts and came to a shocking conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald could not have fired the shot that shattered Kennedy's skull, and, in Donahue's judgment, only one other... Tovább

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MORTAL MR
The Stiol Thai Killed |FK
In 1967, a Baltimore man named Howard Donahue began investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like countless Americans, Donahue was fascinated by the events in Dallas. But what separated him from other amateur sleuths, and even the Warren Commission experts, was a lifetime's experience with guns and ballistics.
In the years ahead, these two attributes, plus bulldoglike tenacity, would carry Donahue on a spellbinding journey back to that tragic day in 1963. Thanks to his understanding of ballistics—and some remarkable luck—Donahue was able to spot discrepancies in the evidence that had been missed both by the Warren Commission experts and by critics of the Commission's Report. So he kept digging, trying to understand. And finally Donahue pieced together the facts and came to a shocking conclusion: Lee Harvey Oswald could not have fired the shot that shattered Kennedy's skull, and, in Donahue's judgment, only one other person could have. He was convinced he knew who pulled the trigger, and why this savage irony had remained buried for so long.
In Mortal Error, Bonar Menninger chronicles Donahue's twenty-five-year investigation of President Kennedy's death and the stunning revelation it led him to. In crisp, rapid-fire prose, Menninger relates one of the greatest true-life detective stories ever told. More important, he offers solutions to questions that have haunted America for nearly thirty years.
Bonar Menninger is a former reporter with the Washington (D.C.) Business Journal and the Kansas City Business Journal. Menninger has won awards for in-depth investigative business writing. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas School of Journalism. He now lives with his wife, Ann Cain, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Howard and Katie Donahue
Howard Donahue is a ballistics expert and a fire-arms examiner with more than forty years' experience with weapons of all types. Today he provides expert testimony and advice relating to fire arms in local, state, and federal court cases. He lives with his wife Katie in Towson, Maryland.
Jacket by Doris Borowsky Jacket photograph courtesy AP/Wide World
Nearly three decades after the event, 72% of the American people believe they still have not been told the truth about the assassination of President Kennedy.
—Time/CNN poll, 17-20 Dec., 1991
Tom Wicker recently wrote:
"I'm willing to believe that Oswald did not act alone, or that he was innocent of the killing, or that there was a conspiracy, or that the mob did it in response to Robert Kennedy's actions as Attorney General, or that Fidel Castro was or was not involved as a result of the Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban missile crisis, or any combination of the above. I'm willing, but only if someone presents an explanation of what happened that's believable and reasonable "
—The New York Times, 15 Dec., 1991
Mortal Error presents the clearest, most plausible explanation yet® about the events that day in Dallas. Vissza