Alan Brinkley’s review of David Talbot’s Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years includes this passage:
Talbot does not choose among the many theories he dutifully describes. All of them are credible, he implies. None of them have been definitively proved. Talbot concludes his book with a powerful plea for a new effort to uncover the truth — a task that would, he says, be akin to the “truth and reconciliation” efforts that have helped heal terrible wounds in countries like Chile, South Africa and Argentina. “It is not too late, even at this remote date, to revive the J.F.K. investigation,” he insists.
In less than admirable counterpoint stands Bryan Burrough’s review of Bugliosi’s massive book, Reclaiming History, the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a book which seeks to suffocate conspiracy theorists beneath its ponderous weight of dead trees. Burroughs says,
It’s time we marginalized Kennedy conspiracy theorists the way we’ve marginalized smokers; next time one of your co-workers starts in about Oswald and the C.I.A., make him stand in the rain with the other outcasts.
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