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Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report on the JFK Assassination Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Sylvia Meagher (Author), Noah Michael Levine (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher)
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A classic of JFK assassination literature, Sylvia Meagher's work is a relentless indictment of the Warren Commission and its work. Originally published in 1967, Meagher's masterful dissection of the Warren Report, based on the Warren Commission's own evidence, has stood the test of time. In some cases, declassifications of government records have corroborated the author's suspicions and analyses, such as her amazing assertion that Oswald had never actually been charged with Kennedy's murder, despite sworn testimony to the contrary. Meagher's audiobook raises serious questions not only about Oswald's guilt in the JFK assassination and related crimes, such as the Tippit murder and the Walker shooting, but also about the methods and honesty of the Warren Commission, the FBI, and various Dallas police and other officials. When the Church Committee first began to re-examine the Warren Commission and its relationship with intelligence agencies in 1975, investigators were shocked by what they discovered. In Accessories After the Fact, Sylvia Meagher delivers a blistering blow to the credibility of the Warren Report, and decades after its original publication researchers and listeners are still discovering what made her work so important.

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Listening Length 24 hours and 33 minutes
Author Sylvia Meagher
Narrator Noah Michael Levine
Audible.com Release Date November 04, 2013
Publisher Audible Studios
Program Type Audiobook
Version Unabridged
Language English
ASIN B00GG4EBVI
Best Sellers Rank #142,503 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals)
#231 in Media Studies (Audible Books & Originals)
#808 in United States Executive Government
#2,468 in Communication & Media Studies

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  • Curtis Raymond
    5.0 out of 5 stars Rosetta Stone of the Cover Up
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2014
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    There should never have been a Warren Commission. Had you been Vice President when President Kennedy was assassinated, you would have allowed the law enforcement agencies with jurisdiction over the crime of murder in the State of Texas to do what they were required by law to do, investigate. You would have had no honest motive to cut lawful investigations off by creating a Presidential commission.

    When you read much assassination literature, you soon see that whenever a piece of evidence goes to the FBI, it disappears. The Warren Commission had as its purpose from the beginning to reassure the public that Oswald acted alone, and J. Edgar Hoover's language to this effect is well-known. If you have read at least the one-volume edition of the Warren Report which was released to the public, you have seen for yourself the pattern that Sylvia Meagher describes as "constant and premeditated," to incriminate Oswald and no one else, despite what its own evidence and exhibits actually revealed.

    Meagher's study is brilliant, and absolutely crucial for any open-minded person seeking to understand the cover-up of the facts surrounding this murder. Piece by piece, Meagher examines each aspect of the Warren Commission's product, and demonstrates with admirable patience how shoddy and finally how dishonest a piece of work that product is. My own reaction to the Report, as a lawyer, was that I realized I was reading a legal brief -- a factual and legal argument made from a position of advocacy, not from an objective standpoint. Whenever the Report was faced with two possible conclusions, A or B, each of which had at least equal support in the record, it always chose the conclusion which supported the Oswald as Lone Nut theory, and always discounted the other conclusion.

    Meagher's study was not limited to the one-volume Report issued to the public. She went through the entire body of work, and found this same pattern, even when the evidence clearly led in the other direction, which it did, time and again. It is impossible to believe that the lawyers writing this document were that incompetent; and that leaves only one conclusion: a form of dishonesty known as single conclusion advocacy. When the outcome is preordained, you are not seeking the truth. You are advocating a position.

    That is what the Warren Commission did, and there is no honest motive for it to have done so. There is no need for a cover-up when there is nothing to cover up. When people deliberately avoid the truth, it is because the truth is unpleasant, or because there is some compelling reason to avoid it, such as "National Security" or stability. The title "Accessories After the Fact" is appropriate, not because its authors deliberately sought to frustrate justice, but because they were in an untenable position for someone supposedly engaged in a dispassionate search for facts. They were employed by LBJ, and their investigative agency was the FBI. There is no way they could have turned around and accused these same actors of complicity in the crime. They ended up endorsing an illegal and falsified autopsy, and a false story. Much more is known today than at the time Meagher did her study, but if you are seriously interested in this topic, don't fail to read this important early book.
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  • Dennis J.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Oldie , but VERY goodie !
    Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2013
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    This was one of the first critical studies of the warren Report made ( 1967 ) and remains , along with the Whitewash series by Harold Weisberg , the best . As another reviewer noted , Ms. Meagher had previously created the first index to the 26 volumes of supportive material , a herculean task which made all subsequent serious research possible . She then challenged the Report's conclusions by a concise , brilliant analysis of how those conclusions stand up in the light of its own published supportive material . The resulting critique is both devastating and irrefutable . There is not a whiff of paranoid , conspiratorial kookery , no loser ( who no sane person would have retained to run a lemonade stand ) emerging from the shadows submitting a bizarre confession of having been hired by Mafia/CIA/Castro/KGB/Martians so that now we have the full story . The first step in getting a full story is realizing that the Official Version ain't it . Well done Ms. Meagher !
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  • Helga Schmidt
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015
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    very well documented
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  • Jeff Marzano
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dark Secrets Brought To Light
    Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2017
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    This book is an early expose of the absurd fairy tale called the Warren Report.

    Many of the issues raised in this book 50 years ago have turned out to be correct.

    The Warren Commission was one of the most diabolical government investigations in American history. These were prestigious lawyers and politicians who used all their skills to create doubt and confusion about the truth. They accomplished this in a variety of ways such as intimidating and threatening witnesses, changing and omitting testimony when they published their report, and simply not calling important witnesses.

    And when those devious methods weren't sufficient to suppress the truth murder was always an option. John Kennedy's assassination was soon followed by a long trail of mysterious deaths. Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit and Lee Oswald got the snowball of murder rolling down the mountain and this snowball became an avalanche.

    In his book Oswald And The CIA author John Newman tells how the CIA tricked everyone into believing that Lee Oswald was part of a conspiracy that led back to Fidel Castro and ultimately the Soviets. Lyndon Johnson told Earl Warren and the others that if the American public ever found out that Oswald was working for the communists World War III would begin.

    Once Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover told everyone that covering up the truth about the assassination was a matter of national security the truth was never going to come out of any official government sources. And it never has.

    The only problem was Lee Oswald was not working with the communists and Johnson and Hoover knew this.

    I think it was the Church Committee which concluded in 1975 that the problem with the Warren Commission was it relied on government agencies like the CIA and FBI for its evidence. This was a big problem because it eliminated any possibility that those agencies would themselves be investigated correctly.

    The things the FBI did after the John Kennedy assassination will forever remain as a cancerous blight on the Bureau's legacy. The very qualities that make the FBI one of the premier crime fighting agencies in the world also turned it into one of the worst lie factories for the JFK case.

    The John Kennedy assassination was a takeover of the United States government by a shadow government. The conspiracy seems to have come out of Lyndon Johnson's inner circle in Texas. This group included the Texas oil barons and military contractors. They had deep ties into U.S. intelligence and they had FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in their pocket.

    I don't think John Kennedy gets killed unless Lyndon Johnson or someone like Johnson was the vice president. And there were very few like Johnson.

    I personally have not read the actual Warren Report and I would be very leery of reading it until I have a very firm grasp of the JFK case. Otherwise this so called report could contaminate someone's thought processes and understanding of the JFK case in irreparable ways.

    Author Sylvia Meagher was a courageous investigator who waded through that massive swamp of lies. She also took the initiative to create an index for the Warren Report and it's 26 volume mountain of crap.

    I recommend this book to get an understanding of the Warren Commission and the Warren Report.

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  • Tat - Ace
    5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Earliest And Best Refutations Of The Warren Report
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2022
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    There is an hour long interview with Sylvia Meagher (pronounced Marr) on youtube that is well worth a listen. She is sophisticated and erudite in her speaking, and likewise in her writing. Like Harold Weisberg, she demonstrates the was a spurious document from start to finish. A must read for those wishing to find some truth in the events of the JFK assassination.
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  • John B.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Poses questions about the events of the day and the conclusions of the enquiry
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2024
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    To be clear at the outset. After reading a number of publications on the subject, I was firmly in the, Oswald acted alone, camp before reading this book. Written close to the time of the events and meticulously researched with logic, I am now prepared to accept that there is enough evidence to call into question a number of aspects that cause me concern and to make my original position less sure. There is a definite need for the questions posed by this excellent book to be answered by those in authority.
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  • Fritz
    4.0 out of 5 stars L'enquête de base sur l'assassinat de John Kennedy
    Reviewed in France on November 9, 2015
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    Minutieux et rigoureux, le travail de Sylvia Meagher a consisté à évaluer les affirmations de la commission Warren à la lumière des auditions, dépositions et pièces à conviction rassemblées dans les vingt-six volumes annexes du rapport Warren. C'est le travail de base pour quiconque ne se satisfait pas de la version officielle. Pour apprécier pleinement ce travail irremplaçable, il vaut mieux avoir une certaine connaissance de l'affaire Kennedy et des lieux où il a été abattu. Un livre que je recommande à tous les curieux, enquêteurs et historiens qui s'intéressent à cette affaire.
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  • John W. Chuckman
    5.0 out of 5 stars REVIEW OF SYLVIA MEAGHER'S ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT BY JOHN CHUCKMAN
    Reviewed in Canada on March 17, 2014
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    I don’t know how I missed it, having read most of the good early critics of the Warren Report, but I never read Sylvia Meagher’s “Accessories After the Fact,” and that is a pity because this book is one of the most important ever written on the Kennedy assassination.

    Ms. Meagher’s topic is exclusively “The Warren Report,” its contents and the means and methods used to arrive at them. Ms. Meagher had a unique advantage over some other critics and analysts: she not only studied the entire 26 volumes of “Hearings and Exhibits” published to support the single-volume summary report, she had undertaken the monumental task of creating an index to “Hearings and Exhibits.” The Commission, as was its bizarre and confusing way in so many things, published this massive collection of evidence separately with no meaningful organization and no means to search or study it, just tens of thousands of documents jammed into 26 covers like a tidy pile of recycling. The summary volume, “The Report,” therefore does not follow the most elemental academic practice of citing an organized body of evidence for its claims and assertions. It was almost as though the supporting documents were published to impress and reassure the public, safe in the knowledge that few would ever try studying them and that the few who did would find the task impossibly frustrating.

    Ms. Meagher’s admirable indexing work not only created a powerful tool for her own use and that of others but gave her in 1967, the first publication date for “Accessories,” an almost unrivalled knowledge, perhaps matched only by Harold Weisberg. But Weisberg was a fairly poor writer, and his books, most famously, “Whitewash,” often are awkward and replete with typographical errors. Ms. Meagher (at least in this edition) is almost the polar opposite: she was a clear, logical writer, often quite forceful, writing analytical reports having been part of her career work. She is a bit dry at times, but that is in the nature of the material.

    Ms. Meagher brought at least one more special talent to the task of writing this book: she had eyes which missed almost nothing in the way of detail. So much was this the case that there are points in the book where you will simply feel a degree of awe for the threads she manages to pull together. Time and time again, she marshals bits of material from the supporting documents which contradict summary words in “The Report” they supposedly were intended to support.

    You might ask how is it relevant to read a book nearly fifty years after its publication when so many new facts have emerged in the case. My answer is, read her and find out: her judicious and detailed evaluation of parts of “The Warren Report” has not been surpassed. Her words echo with acute unanswered questions. She also demonstrated a remarkable prescience at times, most of her best observations and conjectures being as fresh as they were when she wrote. Altogether, an amazing feat of scholarship.

    As to new evidence and facts, there actually is far less than many assume. Yes, the Church Committee (1975) gave us some insights into the CIA’s dirty work which Ms. Meagher did not know when writing, and, yes, the House Select Committee (1979) developed some new evidence, and, still further, the Assassination Records Review Board (1990s) published boxfuls of documents. But what those who do not follow the assassination case do not know is how remarkably little new material of genuine usefulness has appeared.

    The House Select Committee on Assassinations (1978), while uncovering important technical evidence of another shooter on the grassy knoll, still feebly drew more or less the same conclusions as the Warren Report, and their second-shooter evidence has been thoroughly muddied by other technical claims about the recording. More importantly still, the huge release of documents by the Assassination Records Review Board (1990s) is filled with redactions and incomplete documents and a great many simply trivial documents such as the fate of Kennedy’s original damaged bronze coffin. To this day, few people realize that the most crucial documents remain buried in government agency files, including information about the intelligence agency behind Oswald’s phony defection, information about how his wife (daughter of a senior Soviet police official at the peak of the Cold War) was permitted to migrate to the United States, information about Oswald’s informer work for the FBI and about the kind of people on which Oswald was informing both in New Orleans and Dallas, information about Jack Ruby’s past (including his anti-Castro gun-running) and his frenzied activities close to the assassination, information about the sickeningly-corrupt Dallas Police and those who acted either to assist in, or cover-up details of, the crime, information about the relationship (and there very much was a relationship) between Oswald and Jack Ruby and David Ferry, information about why the presidential limousine was quickly rebuilt to destroy ballistic evidence, information about the pseudonym, A. Hidell, information about ex-FBI Agent Guy Bannister’s dark operations in New Orleans out of a building Oswald frequented, information about Oswald’s supposed visit to Mexico (genuine CIA observation pictures and recording having never been released), and information about a great many other things.

    Perceptive readers will understand that those are “red meat” matters in the case and that it is simply absurd to ask people to accept that clear documents around them do not exist. We also need information on so basic a matter as why the distinguished members of the Commission thought it was appropriate to selectively ignore witnesses, to alter the printed version of other witnesses’ testimony, and to write what is almost a complete fabrication from start to finish. Lyndon Johnson’s suggestive stuff, reportedly whispered to convince some recruits to join the commission, about “if you knew what I knew” and tens of millions of “lives at risk” strikes one as unconvincing rubbish even then.

    Remember, the most profound question ever asked about the assassination goes unanswered to this day: Betrand Russell, after publication of “The Report” asked, "If, as we are told, Oswald was the lone assassin, where is the issue of national security?"

    Perhaps the most outstanding yet little asked issue around the Warren Commission is why, instead of doing a straightforward investigation of facts, it saw fit to conduct the prosecution of a single individual, “The Report” being literally nothing more than a prosecutor’s brief, and a fairly poor one at that. In a normal legal procedure, there is also a defence brief, the opportunity to cross examine, and there is a judge and/or jury acting as impartial receiver of all evidence. But the Warren Commission acted as prosecution and jury combined. Indeed, as is not widely understood, the Commission itself did almost no investigation (investigation being its true mandate) and depended almost completely on the FBI for investigative work. So the FBI, a poisonously political organization at the time under J. Edgar Hoover, collected selected pieces of evidence and selected witness accounts, and the Commission conducted selected questioning of selected witnesses and assembled a dodgy prosecutorial brief. Nothing that could be called a true investigation ever occurred.

    Readers should understand that this book is not the kind of gripping narrative of, say, Anthony Summers’ “Conspiracy.” It is a brilliant dissection, although a bit dry at times, of what remains the government’s foundation document explaining the assassination. “The Warren Report” does not explain the assassination, as Ms. Meagher so amply proved in this book nearly fifty years ago.

    This book is recommended without qualification for all people interested in the assassination, in American history, in the integrity of America’s political or judicial institutions, and in the dark workings of powerful government institutions.

    Here is a footnote for those interested in how twisted the assassination literature has become with unhelpful books now regularly dumped into the market. Ms. Meagher cites Edward Jay Epstein’s “Inquest,” another critique of the “The Report” published before hers. She treats him, given her knowledge in 1967, as a fair-minded and able critic. And to a considerable degree he was in that single instance, but Epstein wrote two more books after “Inquest,” “Counterplot” and “Legend,” both serving only to reinforce the main observations and conclusions of “The Report,” so much so, they are embarrassing for a knowledgeable and critically-minded person to read. “Inquest” served the purpose of what intelligence agencies call “chicken feed,” accurate but non-essential information given by a spy to the other side in order to establish bona fides. Following a number of pioneering and well-received critical books, “Inquest” granted some of the flawed nature of the “The Report” and even seemed to break a little new ground. But when you read the other two Epstein books and some unrelated stuff he has churned out over the years, you conclude he is part of what one retired CIA propaganda operative once called his mighty Wurlitzer Organ, a huge console of keys sending all kinds of misinformation through legitimate publication channels.

    And so it continues today. Not only has Epstein written yet another book, but a steady stream of books is published whose main purpose is to support the Warren Commission’s “findings.” This is done along two paths. First there are the Epstein-type books, supporting the Commission through a semblance of analysis and investigation. Then there are the truly flaky anti-Warren Commission books with all kinds of outlandish claims (i.e. Oswald was a KGB spy or he was a Castro-hired assassin) and absolutely no evidence, intended to spread a shadow of discredit across even legitimate critics. Both kinds of books are produced by publishing channels friendly to the CIA, and their authors often may not even realize that they are being used, it being a common practice to use non-CIA assets with or without their knowledge as the case may seem appropriate. Sadly, the author of one of the best books ever written on the subject, Anthony Summers (“Conspiracy”), in his recent update of “Not in Your Lifetime” seems to this author, wittingly or not, to have gone over to the dark side in some of his observations and suggestions, just as he very much did in his unfortunate book on 9/11 (also reviewed).

    It is thus a rare thing to find a book on a highly controversial public issue in the United States that is an honest effort to analyze (and what else would you expect at the heart of a great empire which is constantly working to deceive people about its purposes and methods?), and Ms. Meagher’s book is one of a small number of them on the assassination.

    The extent of American secret operations of all kinds was not appreciated in 1967. Today, they march in platoons across the news - Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, Yemen, Syria, Ukraine, and others – but still the dark workings behind them are never acknowledged. America’s intelligence agencies have gigantic budgets and operate with almost no accountability, murdering and torturing and overthrowing like the secret police serving a police state. America’s Congress questions and opposes almost nothing done. America’s mainline press now never pretends to report as it did during at least part of the Vietnam holocaust (the word being justified by the killing of an estimated 3 million Vietnamese). Elected presidents seem little more than figureheads formally authorizing the dark establishment’s work, the public not being able to distinguish an Obama from a Bush. The unexplained death of a president and the government’s contempt for the understanding of America’s citizens has gone a long way to making this world possible.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A headliner
    Reviewed in Canada on October 17, 2014
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    The thorough and detailed review of the evidence put up by the Warren Report is enough to prove it a con job by the government. Reason given by Johnson to Warren just nonsense. Warren should have turned him down. Warren should have demanded a free hand. A snow job.
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  • Mr. Steven Twine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 26, 2014
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    Having read so many books on jfk this one is the best. It shows in order discrepancies in the Warren report so the reader can take their time in dissecting the information. Very well written and full off information that I didn't know. A must read
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