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In reply to the discussion: Question: How Many Books On The JFK Assassination Have YOU Read ??? [View all]grasswire
(50,130 posts)18. one that influenced me was "Richard Case Nagell: The Man Who Knew Too Much"
absolutely riveting.
Author is Dick Russell. Many notes at his web site.
Here's a blurb about Nagell from google search:
On September 20, 1963, Richard Case Nagell walked into a bank in El Paso, Texas. He fired two shots into the wall near the ceiling, walked back out to his car, and waited to be arrested. Subsequently, Nagell would claim he was a double (or triple) agent of U.S. and the KGB, that he knew Lee Harvey Oswald and was monitoring the JFK assassination plot which involved Cuban exiles, and that he had been ordered to kill Oswald to prevent the plot from being carried out. He also maintained that he had sent a registered letter to FBI Director Hoover, warning him of the plot.
Author Dick Russell interviewed Nagell and corresponded with him, and eventually wrote a book, largely about Nagell, entitled The Man Who Knew Too Much. Nagell was very guarded about what he knew, and some of his correspondence uses humorous pseudonyms for the various persons and organizations.
Who was Richard Case Nagell? A decorated Korean War veteran, Nagell was in a plane crash in 1954 which left him in a coma for weeks. Despite this, he was subsequently granted a Top Secret clearance and served for several years in CounterIntelligence in the Army. Was Nagell's later strange behavior a sign of brain damage or psychological difficulties, or was he "sheep dipped" for a role in undercover work?
The Nagell story is truly one of the weirdest in the JFK assassination literature, and critics of it point to Nagell's many inconsistencies, his failure to ever come up with the hidden-away evidence he claimed he had, and his tendency to "let out" information just at a time where he might have acquired it through public channels. But some of his knowledge remains unexplained. The FBI inquired of the CIA about seven names found in a notebook in Nagell's possession at the time of his arrest. A review determined that all of them were involved in intelligence, and the CIA wrote back to the FBI asking "how the above names came into the possession of Nagell." The question was never answered.
A perhaps fitting if tragic denouement to the story occurred when the Assassination Records Review Board decided to contact Nagell. The ARRB sent a registered letter on October 31, 1995. One day after the letter was mailed, Nagell was found dead in his apartment, victim of an apparent heart attack.
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None. It makes me too sad. Glad they are out there though. Bobby, too. The last of the great
libdem4life
Nov 2013
#2
Just one. The second one you posted. I grew up assuming it was a 'lone wolf' right wing lunatic
sabrina 1
Nov 2013
#5
Check Out Jim Marrs' Crossfire... Even In The Preface He Tells You Not To Trust The Book...
WillyT
Nov 2013
#13
A shot of less than 100 yards on a slow moving target is not only likely...
Gravitycollapse
Nov 2013
#36
I still have that paperback edition of On The Trail of the Assassins somewhere.
nyquil_man
Nov 2013
#16
I saw that episode of The X-Files with the Cigarette Smoking Man. Does that count?
Orrex
Nov 2013
#39
One. Four Days: The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy
ScreamingMeemie
Nov 2013
#46