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I just finished The Final Trigger: The Truth and Lies of JFK’s Assassination, by Randall Windle.

This book will be published on November 30, 2024.

This was a disappointing book about the assassination. While the book purports to be about the assassination, the amount of just background information vs. review of the evidence is far too skewed in favor of the former. While the book appears to not take a definitive position on whether Oswald was a lone shooter or a conspiracy, whenever the author takes a position on something, it is almost always in the direction of a lone shooter.

This book really adds nothing to the assassination literature. That is not grounds for me to give a book a bad grade—provided that it is interesting, well-written and provides a good look at the evidence. Unfortunately, this book fails on all three counts.

I give this book a D.

Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a D equates to 1 star. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews

I finished reading this on November 20, 2024.

I’ve never met a book about the JFK assassination I didn’t want to read. I can easily give the audio tour at the 6th floor museum. This was a good book for someone who knows A LOT about JFK, his assassination and conspiracies. I enjoyed how the author spent a lot of time on Oswald and his background, along with what was going on in the world at the time with the Cold War and the Cuban conflict.
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This was a fantastic look into what was going on with JFK’s assassination. It had a great case about what happened and was researched in a way that worked overall. I thought Randall Windle wrote this in a way that worked and was glad I was able to read this.