In the July/August issue of The Atlantic, Thomas Mallon considers Bugliosi’s opus. Bugliosi is, in conspiracy-theorist lingo, a “lone-nutter” (or “LN”)-a disparaging term for those who believe Oswald’s solitary guilt is indisputable and that the “magic-bullet theory” is simply a bullet-trajectory fact. Kennedy, is nothing less than a resounding endorsement of the Warren Commission’s 42-year-old findings. The book, Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. However, a recent tome (close to 2,000 pages) written by Vincent Bugliosi, the hard-nosed Manson prosecutor and former Los Angeles County assistant district attorney par excellence, goes decidedly against this grain. Nearly every one of the thousand or so books that have been written on the subject has cried “Conspiracy!” in one form or another. These individuals range vastly in ideology and credibility, and over the past four-plus decades, a raft of writings, theories, and notions have sprung from their many-tented camp. What’s happened since can best be described as a kind of transmogrification: the event, and the events surrounding it, have become endlessly complicated by conspiracy theorists (“CTs,” to use their parlance), who seized on the commission’s report and used its seeming incongruities and omissions as ample fodder for their beliefs. According to the federal Warren Commission, however, the lone gunman was a 24-year-old radical named Lee Harvey Oswald. The president was assassinated by the vice president, the KGB, the Mafia, the Cubans, or the Secret Service, depending on who one asks.
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