Turner,W. Christian,J. The Assassination of RFK. 1993
Turner, William W. and Christian, Jonn G. The Assassination of Robert F.
Kennedy: The Conspiracy and Coverup. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1993.
397 pages. First published in 1978 by Random House.
Not only did the earlier edition fail to make it into paperback, but
Random House stopped shipping this book because of one letter from a person
with links to organized crime. Twenty thousand copies were printed in 1978,
and eleven thousand of these were sent to the incinerator in 1985. Though
not named, it's obvious that this person is Eugene Hale Brading (aka Jim
Braden), who was detained by sheriff's deputies at Dealey Plaza minutes
after the JFK assassination. He was also in Los Angeles when RFK was killed.
But Brading is mentioned on just three pages, so the Random House
bonfire probably had more to do with senior editor Robert D. Loomis, who
edited a "lone nut" account of the RFK assassination in 1970, as well as
Gerald Posner's "Case Closed" in 1993, in which Oswald is also a lone nut.
"They do that with books," Loomis replied when asked about the incineration.
When contacted by Publishers Weekly about the Posner book, Loomis had this
to say: "All the conspiracy theories have undermined the public's belief in
government. They believe that everybody's in cahoots, that we have murderers
in the CIA. That's what has been accepted, and that, to me, is a crime."
Posner himself acknowledged the influence of Loomis: "His effort on this one
was beyond the ordinary assistance.... His imprint is evident throughout."
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