Retrieve Praise From A Future Generation: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy And The First Generation Critics Of The Warren Report Compiled By John Kelin Available As Document

Kelin does a remarkable job of chronicling the often contentious relationships between the early critics of the Warren Commission, and the crucial work they performed in spite of it all.
Having met a few of these "first generation" critics myself, I can testify personally to the animosity that existed between most all of them.
Large egos, combative personalities, and professional jealousies combined to prevent any effective coalition from ever forming, which might have provided a more powerful opposition to the establishment media and politicians that so fiercely clung to the impossible official story.


Those reading this wonderful book should always remember that the reason why a chicken farmer, a lawyer and local politician, a small Texas publisher, a housewife, and a World Health Organization employee produced the essential research in this case, was because no professional journalist ever had the slightest desire to investigate the assassination of the President of the United States.
The fact they achieved what they did, and exposed the lone assassin myth for what it was, is all the more remarkable because they were just individual citizens, working against powerful forces, with no subpoena powers and limited budgets.


"Praise From A Future Generation" is compelling history, and an obvious labor of love, Those of us who continue to research this case must never forget the debt we all owe to Mark Lane, Harold Weisberg, Sylvia Meagher, Shirley Martin, Maggie Field, Penn Jones, Jr.
, Thomas Buchanan, Sylvan Fox, Ray Marcus and Vincent Salandria, They, and the others that came immediately after them, are American heroes and true profiles in courage, Pardon the selfpromotion. This is so far my one and only, More later, maybe. I received this book in the mail on Novembernd a few years ago, The best book on the subject along with Heritage of Stone and JFK and the Unspeakable, A valuable addition to the literature, A great contribution to American history, Some of my favorite parts:
Vince Salandria's trips to Dallas
all of the March Against Fear sections
A wonderful study! Plaudits to John Kelin and thanks to the GR reviewers that persuaded me to add this book to my bourgeoning collection of JFK assassination data.
Of the dozen books that I have read on this topic in, this has to be the unexpected gem that I have discovered at the close of the year.

A fascinating and unique piece of research that comprehensively catalogues the earliest inquiring minds reeling from the shock of Dallas and their individual relentless questioning of the official version of events.
All the earliest published authors, amateur sleuths, concerned housewives and many described as ordinary citizens who coalesced into what are described as the 'first generation critics' have their individual and collective narrative set out in intricate detail.
Short biographies accompany each of these pioneers as well as their interactions and collaborations through the first decades,
As time has marched relentlessly on, many of these advocates of conspiracy have passed away, and it is certain that without Kelin's work the inside stories of their endeavours would have been lost for future generations.
He has produced a masterly written account where almost every paragraph is accompanied by a reference in his Notes that occupy some seventy pages, and for those interested in this case the Bibliography is a gold mine.


Finely written and meticulously documented, this book describes howvery early ona small group of ordinary citizens began extraordinary efforts to demonstrate that the JFK assassination could not have happened the way the government said it did.
In time, their efforts had an enormous impact on public opinion, but this account concentrates on the months before the controversy caught fire, when people with skeptical viewpoints still saw themselves as lone voices.
Material

seldom seen by the public includes a suppressed photograph of the grassy knoll, an unpublished interview with an eyewitness, the earliest mention of the "magic bullet," and an analysis of the commotion surrounding New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's charge that antiCastro CIA operatives were involved.
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