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A Deeper, Darker Truth Paperback – October 15, 2009
- Print length252 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDTP
- Publication dateOctober 15, 2009
- Dimensions5.51 x 0.65 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100615300995
- ISBN-13978-0615300993
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- Publisher : DTP (October 15, 2009)
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- Paperback : 252 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0615300995
- ISBN-13 : 978-0615300993
- Item Weight : 15.2 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.51 x 0.65 x 8.5 inches
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Customers find the book informative and significant, making it a must-read for serious researchers. They describe the narrative as fascinating and plausible, detailing an extremely disturbing journey. However, opinions differ on the clarity of the photos, with some finding them clear and convincing, while others mention that they are distorted or not clearer than those taken on Earth.
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Customers find this book informative and important. They say it's a must-read for serious researchers and students of the assassination. The book touches on several areas of interest, including the Z film and autopsy pictures.
"...about the assassination, I can honestly say this work is the most significant data I have ever reviewed...." Read more
"...and he touches several areas of interest (Z film, autopsy pictures..)..." Read more
"...taken at President Kennedy. This is a terrific report and I highly recommend it..." Read more
"...mind and suspends disbelief while reading the book, this book offers a riveting read and more indications that there were numerous shooters and..." Read more
Customers find the story fascinating and plausible. They describe the journey as complex and disturbing.
"...but open to the author's case, but if one does, the story is a fascinating one...if only for its tale of one man's quest (in retirement no less) to..." Read more
"...Phillips does a great job of organizing & curating this complex, disturbing journey...." Read more
"...The author details an extremely plausible scenario based on the forensic film work of Tom Wilson...." Read more
Customers have different views on the photo clarity. Some find it convincingly shows that early birds like Lifton were photographed, while others mention the photos are not clear, distorted, or not clearer than those taken on Earth until 1993.
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"...Photo Interpretation can be very tricky, given that we see with our brain, not our eyes, and I believe Wilson is, for example, right on the Daltex..." Read more
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"...Why did Phillips organize the book for repetition? Some photos are unclear as printed and do not prove the author's contention unless one is..." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2010The work on Tom Wilson's research data is mind boggling. If, as he claims, the data he discovered can be replicated, then we must all face a new reality about the national fantasy we have lived since 1963. As a serious student of almost everything that has been written about the assassination, I can honestly say this work is the most significant data I have ever reviewed. However, almost as startling as this researcher's findings, is the complete silence from the mainstream media. This should be the biggest political story in the last half century. I have yet to see anything in the mainstream about it. When Gerald Posner presented his bogus rendering of reality, he and his book were paraded before us ad nauseum. That tells you where our society resides right now. John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King were all murdered by the same maleviolent forces. Mr. Wilson's scientific data unequivocally proves the evidence in the first case was manipulated and falsified. Author Phillips presents Wilson's data in comprehensive logical terms that are startling. The other two cases were equally handled. We have been living a fantasy since 1963, and this important work proves that. It is tragic this man did not live to see the fruits of his labors. Every person who is a serious student of the coup that took place in the 60's should read this book and use it as a Rosetta Stone in their research.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2010...this is a tough review to write, and need a little background explanation to explain how I evaluate the book like I did.
I have been waiting for the publication of Wilsons work ever since I first heard of it in a foreword by Cyril Wecht to "conspiracy of Silence", and saw an interview of him in a segment of "The men who killed Kennedy" in the 90s.
I am myself a dedicated student of the case almost from the begining, and I have always had the conviction that if it was a conspiracy, then the photographic record should contain evidence of it, and it was only a matter of getting the right technology to exploit it.So Wilson's claims reignited my interest in the photographic record of the assassination.
To make things short, I was at the time (the 90s) working for a market research firm, and I had designed a theoretical approach to enhance data processing.
I reasoned that, since photographs are, de facto, sets of data, the methodology could also be applied to enhance pictures.
I decided that one day I would try this myself,using the JFK photographic record as a test.
So in 98 I bought my first PC and started working on the assassination pictures.
The process I imagined works, and that's an understatement.
I can send (free, I am not selling anything here) to any interested parties images showing that JFK was executed by 3 teams of individuals wearing Dallas police uniforms, and proving that LHO did not shoot at JFK that day (or if he did, he was wearing a DPD uniform...)
So you can imagine my impatience at getting at long last a look at Wilson's work in detail, when this book was published.
So this is below my appreciation of Wilson's work, of course qualified by my personnal work on the same material he studied, being understood that we worked with very different techniques, Wilson's requiring expensive state of the art image processing technology, mine only a PC, basic softwares and some spare time.
*first,and most important, Wilson was right on the basic premise: our ability to extract information from a photograph is essentially limited by the technology available to us.
*second, Wilson does identify several areas of interest that indicate the presence of unknown individuals in long suspected shooting locations.
* third,Wilson confirms the work of several others (Mantik, etc) regarding the X-rays and the autopsy pictures being forged, and identify, as I did, a bullet hole in the right side above the eye
That's for the positive.
On the other hand, it is my opinion that Wilson makes several interpretations which are a) demonstrably wrong, and some which are b) preposterous
Photo Interpretation can be very tricky, given that we see with our brain, not our eyes, and I believe Wilson is, for example, right on the Daltex Shooter presence, but totally wrong in his interpretation of the man's posture; idem for the Knoll Shooter, or the TSBD assassin.
Wilson also claims to be able to see minute details such as a tatoo on a shooter's cheek,or the precise design of a badge, which I find difficult to believe.
I am also not convinced by his "shot from the sewer" explanation
So this explains the title of my review: Wilson is right on the basic statement he is making: there is a lot of unexploited information data stored in the assassination pictures, and that data is now accessible (and I would add: accessible to anyone with a mass market PC)
Unfortunately, Wilson got carried away at times while interpretating what he found: it is one thing to correctly identify a human form in a window, but it is another matter altogether to say exactly what the person might be doing...
I would anyway whithout a doubt recommend the book to anyone really interested in the assassination, since the basic claim put forth by Wilson is right (the photographic record still has a huge lot to offer to the inquiring eye), and he touches several areas of interest (Z film, autopsy pictures..)
PS: anyone interested in what I have found can contact me directly: the methodology is quite simple and can be reproduced by anybody
- Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2015This book is based on the investigations of engineer Tom Wilson. Wilson developed a system that can peel away layers of light from old pictures and movies and see what those artifacts may reveal. Apparently the FBI and NASA use the same technology.
I don't claim to understand how Tom Wilson's invention works. But it's very interesting because his findings confirm what many JFK researchers have suspected for the last 50 years. I guess someone would have to be a scientist to know for sure if Tom's system really did what he claimed it did. But for me personally I believe Tom Wilson was right and for me so far this book is the gold standard for understanding what really happened that day in Dealy Plaza.
It is also the gold standard for finding out what really happened to destroy, manipulate. and misrepresent all the evidence and bury the truth about the JFK assassination forever.
It should also be noted that Tom Wilson's system was not required to discover many of the illegal modifications that were made to critical evidence. The original Mary Moorman picture clearly shows that a rectangular piece of John Kennedy's skull was blow away. This fatal injury can be seen with the naked eye in the original picture before the back of the head was blackened out by the government spooks.
Fascinating for me is one of John Kennedy's autopsy pictures shows three bullet holes in his back. Tom's system wasn't needed to see those wounds but his system verified that they are in fact bullet holes.
Three areas the conspirators had to control after the assassination were:
Lee Oswald (who I guess was supposed to get killed in the movie theater)
JFK's physical body. The truth about the real bullet wounds had to be suppressed forever.
Any pictures and movies that were taken during the assassination.
I guess this book review is not the right place to get into all the details of what Tom Wilson discovered. But I read this book twice so as not to miss what I believe is the real truth about what happened to John Kennedy. The book contains a lot of pictures so it does not require a large time investment to read.
JFK assassination researchers have been engaged in a 50 year struggle against a very determined, sophisticated, and potentially deadly enemy; the American government. The JFK assassination story is a tale of deceit and betrayal that went up to the very highest levels of the American government. And those Judases in the government are still there lying about it today.
This book would probably have benefitted if some of Tom Wilson's strange images were overlaid with what Tom thought he was looking at like perhaps as a white outline of the person's face. Adding color to those enhanced images would have also helped like they did on the documentary series The Men Who Killed Kennedy with the badge man shooter in the Mary Moorman picture.
I highly commend author Donald Phillips for preserving this most important research.
However Mr. Phillips suggests that Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit, who was murdered on the day of the assassination, was one of the shooters behind the picket fence who was then silenced because he refused to kill Lee Oswald. That doesn't sound too good for me although I guess my views could change in the future. To me J. D. Tippit's role was only to get shot in cold blood so the DPD would then have a fake justification to kill Lee Oswald in the movie theater.
Top reviews from other countries
- Peggy OldfieldReviewed in Canada on May 5, 2011
4.0 out of 5 stars Beneath The Surface
Because I am neither an engineer nor a computer expert, it is difficult to understand some of the technical aspects of this book. Tom Wilson has taken photos relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy and peeled them away, layer by layer on his computer image processing system. What he discovered however, casts much doubt upon the authenticity of the Zapruder film, reveals an image of the shooter on the Grassy Knoll and brings up a lot of unanswered questions about the Kennedy autopsy. If you doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman, then this book should be part of your collection.
- Mr. M. T. QuinnReviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2011
5.0 out of 5 stars Why don't the Americans get it?
Yet another extraordnary independent review of the EVIDENCE which again proves the official lie!
Thank God there are still decent enough people out there who are noble enough and have the courage not to just simply let this disgustng lie live on!
This book follows the research of a man who, using state of the art scanning techniques, applies them to photos and videos of the Kennedy assassination and literally peels back the lies,criminal tampering and official deception.
Why is it that all you ever hear from the mainstrerm media is "Oswald did it alone, Oswald did it alone" when even a cursory look at the evidence by a real moron can see that Kennedy was NOT shot by a single lone nut assassin but was the vicim of the most disgusting state crime ever?
This book clearly shows YET AGAIN that Kennedy was hit by more than one gunman; by at least two shots from the front (including the fatal head shot); and at least two from behind. Also, there is clear evidence YET AGAIN of other bullet damage to the presidential limo as well as additional bullets hitting the curb and grass in Dealy Plaza. "Magic Bullet"? Come on! Only an idiot would believe that and the "official" state story - which would not have the tiniest of chance of EVER standing up in court of real law if it were tested. In fact, as a lawyer myself, I believe that the lawyers responsible for the Warren Report and the HSCA report should be ashamed of themselves. It is disgraceful!
Wake up America for pity's sake! Open your eyes! Your President was murdered by your OWN EXECUTIVE!
What are you doing about it? Why are you still in so much ridiculous denial?
Stand up and do something about - it is SHAMEFUL
BUY THIS BOOK AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. But then why should you need yet another book to convince you? The truth has been OBVIOUS since 1963!
- Mr. Edward ToyeReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2016
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Excellent, piqued my curiosity
- Kirsty KwikReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 8, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars JFK - a scientific study into the cover up
This is a must for any serious JFK researcher. Will documented research into the cover up.
- Barry RyderReviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2015
1.0 out of 5 stars A Deeper Darker Lunacy
This 2009 book by Donald T. Phillips is probably one of the most ridiculous ever published concerning the assassination of President Kennedy - and that's saying something.
Phillips chooses as his subject the late Tom Wilson whose 'amazing technology' bamboozled a few credulous dupes for a while in the late 1980's.
In a nutshell - for those who don't know - Tom Wilson claimed to have developed a method of analyzing photographic images which enabled him to 'peel-off' surface layers of a print in order to find details 'beneath' the visually discernible image.
Such an incredible accomplishment seemed to defy the basic laws of physics, optics and photography. Tom had invented every school-boy's dream; X-ray specs. Tom Wilson had, apparently, turned the field of photographic analysis on its head; or rather, inside-out.
But had he? Well, no; of course he hadn't. He was a fraud.
Also, of course, the very idea that a photographic print or negative has any underlying ‘three dimensional depth’ which can be accessed, is utterly ridiculous.
Photography works on the simple principle that objects reflect light from their visible surfaces into the camera lens, from where the reflected light falls onto unexposed film. Only reflected light from surfaces reaches the camera. Hidden depths and surfaces that are oriented away from the camera do not reflect any light at all into the camera lens. Therefore , that which isn’t ‘seen’ by the camera at the instant that the shutter opens and closes, is never recorded on the film.That being so, no amount of computer wizardry will ever find it because it’s not there to be found. Simple.
None of Wilson's 'work' was ever peer-reviewed and the man himself steadfastly refused to explain how his methodology worked. He never permitted anybody to field-test his equipment or method.
Moreover, no such technology exists even today, twenty-five years after Wilson claimed to have pioneered the field. What the man claimed to have done all those years ago, with relatively basic computing power and software, cannot be done in 2015 after a quarter of a century in which computers have advanced by quantum leaps.
The back-cover blurb seeks to bolster the credibility of Phillips' subject by declaring, "This accepted methodology allowed him [Wilson] to serve as a consulting technical expert in criminal law cases where his image processing was accepted as hard evidence in American courts of law."
This statement is misleading and selectively incomplete. Although Wilson and his methodology were accepted for the purposes of legal argument, they were challenged in court and shown to be worthless. His 'evidence' wasn't regarded as 'hard'
.
Martin L. Fackler, MD encountered Wilson in a courtroom in 1993. It was a murder case in which Wilson's 'expertise' was being employed by a prosecution team (Hinkle vs. The City of Clarksburg, WV.) Writing in 'Wound Ballistics Review', vol 5, issue 2, of the fall of 2001, Fackler noted:
"During the deposition, the defence lawyer pointed out the obvious inconsistencies. 1) The photographs, which Wilson interprets, were taken well after the wound was produced, and the only time anything was going in or coming out of the wound was during the millisecond during which the bullet was passing the skin. 2) Wilson presented no evidence that the shade of pixel had anything to do with energy. 3) Wilson could point to no literature supporting his thesis. 4) Wilson could not relate his thesis to the laws of physics regarding how energy could appear as a shade of gray etc."
Basically, Wilson couldn't show that his method actually worked.
It's worth noting here that despite the copious illustrations in the book, Wilson never 'processed' any original, first-generation images. Although he did view materials at the National Archive, he was not permitted to copy any - much less to take them away for scanning into his computer. Quite simply, he confined his 'research' to multi-generational copies and photographic plates in books and pictures in magazines (p.18)! That's right; Tom's first foray into the JFK miasma began when he, "..obtained a hard copy of the Mary Moorman photograph from a book, and began examining the image." (page 13).
This isn't good. Sensible people know that if you are going to analyse a photograph, film or X-ray, you need to actually have it. A reproduction in a book or magazine is no good. (On page 13 Phillips states that the Moorman image was "..from a book.." but, on page 18 he quotes Wilson telling his wife that the image was, ".. from a magazine..". Ooops.)
So, by page 13, it's clear that Wilson was a flake and that Phillips' support of him is, at the very least, misguided. At this point the reader could, justifiably put the book down and lament the money wasted on it.
However, 'Deeper Darker' contains so many of Wilson's outrageous 'claims' and 'discoveries' that a small sampling of them should alert the potential buyer to the sheer nonsense that awaits.
Staying with the famous Moorman polaroid that Wilson got from a book - he never examined the original, remember - here are some of the incredible things that he thought that he could see in it.
Not only can he see 'badgeman', he can actually "..focus specifically on the badge." (p. 14) By the following page, Tom has twiddled his dials, clicked his mouse and can now see, "..a left-facing eagle's head with wings just above it." "Makes sense," he muses. Sense to him, possibly, but not to people who live in the real world.
The 'screen-shots' of the 'badge' are featured on page 19. These two pixelated images do not indicate a badge or anything like one. Tom can see a badge AND a "..left-facing eagle.."!
As if this quackery were not silly enough, the ridiculous Tom Wilson probes even deeper into the image on his VDU. On page 17 we read that after further 'enlargements', Tom can see, "..coarse dark hair parted on the left side, and the man's left ear and eye. In a second enlargement, the eye became more distinct, revealing the iris and even the pupil. There also seemed to be a mole or pox mark on his upper left cheek, just below the eye."
The reader need only bear in mind that in Moorman's original polaroid print (the one that Wilson didn't have so couldn't examine), the 'badgeman' head is a microscopic 1/69th of an inch wide! Yet Tom Wilson claimed that he could detect an iris, a pupil and a mole on the cheek of this 'head'!
A modern, top-of-the-range digital camera might be able to photograph a mole on a face in shadow 126 feet away, but Mary Moorman's Polaroid Highlander Model 80A with its low lens resolution and bog-standard, Polaroid Series 30 film stock?? Nah, not a chance.
And if Moorman didn't capture it at the time, no amount of jiggery-pokery on an Apple/Mac will ever reveal it. Neither 'badgeman' nor his 'mole' made it onto the silver halides which coated Mary's film; therefore Tom didn't find them. They weren't there to be found. Simple.
Ok. That's chapter one.
Beyond this point the book degenerates into an unintelligible cacophony of conspiracy-buff whining, pseudo-science, pixelated and meaningless screen-shots and an array of hand-drawn pictures that would shame a seven-year-old.
Wilson suggests that virtually every photograph, film and X-ray pertaining to the assassination and its subsequent investigation has been falsified
The chapters which deal with the Z-film, the autopsy materials and the 'backyard' photographs are utterly inane. Wilson simply scans an image, sweeps a few colour contrasts over it, magnifies it until it's pixelated beyond comprehension and then declares that it reveals something sinister; an extra bullet hole (or two), evidence of post-mortem alterations and on and on. Wilson obviously had no ability to analyse photographs, but there was nothing wrong with his imagination.
On pages 107-9 Wilson gives full reign to his boundless imaginings . On these pages the reader will find Tom's impression of a 'military man' who - he feels - can be discerned in the sniper's nest window. (Tom is scrutinizing a multi-generational copy of the Powell photograph here.)
This is how he describes the man (pp 107-8), "He is wearing a military-type beret that has a large spread eagle sewn on it. The eagle is made of cloth and its colour is white or very light tan. He is wearing a military-type oval earphone made out of rubber and plastic. The headphone set has a small microphone attached to the headband that goes under the beret. Wires are seen going from the microphone to the earpiece and up the headset headband. He has a very large bulb-type nose (similar to the actor/comedian W. C. Fields) ... His left eyelashes are very long. His left cheek is slightly puffy. He has a tattoo or sticker patch on his left cheek. The tattoo is: 'F9' with a smaller 's' below. The '9' is about two-thirds the size of the 'F' and the smaller 's' is at an angle (perhaps italicized)."
So, Tom's magic box can also differentiate between cloth, rubber and plastic. Amazing, eh? it can detect sewn stitches at a distance of more than 100 feet. As for the eyelashes, well, what can you say??
As the pages roll by the conspiracy musings of Donald Phillips himself begin to take up more and more page space. It's all of the usual guff and is utterly tedious to read. At times Phillips ties himself in knots. He flips and flops with his stream-of-consciousness theorising and ends up making a fool of himself within just a few sentences.
For example: (pp. 217-8), "However, it is believed that Tippit was shaken by the murder of President Kennedy and refused to kill Oswald, which then necessitated his own murder by the conspirators.
It may be that J. D. Tippit was one of the two shooters behind the picket fence, just as has been suggested by various researchers. [..] That policeman, who was described as not wearing a hat, may very well have been Tippit. Furthermore, J. D. Tippit fit the description of the left shooter on the grassy knoll behind the picket fence.
[...] He had brown eyes, course dark hair parted on the left side, and would obviously have been wearing a police uniform complete with badge. And finally, a photograph of Tippit reveals he had a pox mark below his left eye in the same location as the shooter behind the picket fence."
So - according to Phillips - Tippit shot JFK but was so 'shaken' by it that he 'refused' to kill Oswald. This is utter dross.
As a final thought, I'd like to return to Wilson and Dr Fackler's article about him (referenced earlier). He wrote:
It is obvious that Wilson's "peeling-off of layers" violates objective reality as much as his previous "energy in - energy out" thesis. Was he on TV because somebody took his theories seriously? Or was it because the JFK conspiracy theorists have become an entertainment cult, which nobody takes seriously; but listens to them for humour - actually lampooning them because their theses are fallacious to the point of comedy?"
I think the good doctor nails it with his second assessment.
Wilson's images are bogus and they don't serve to advance any understanding of President Kennedy's death. However, they do serve as a useful Rorschach test .
Wilson's screen-shots and diagrams are visual gibberish. They fail all scientific thresholds and protocols. None of Wilson's 'discoveries' have ever been verified by peer-review or confirmed by other, professionally administered tests.
Ultimately this Rorschach test reveals much about the minds of those who think they can see something in the images rather than what is actually there.
If you read the book you'll be able to 'see through' Tom Wilson; you won't need to peel-off any layers to reveal the deeper, darker lunacy.
Barry Ryder