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Cold case Kennedy: een nieuw onderzoek naar de moord op JF
Cold Case Kennedy is the first book to systematically scrutinize all aspects of the murder dossier. Why did Robert Kennedy remain silent? Was there really a magic bullet? What was the role of Lyndon Johnson in the drama? Was there more than one sniper? Why did the Warren Commission refuse to consider a third victim on Dealey Plaza? What was a convicted gangster doing in the building directly across from the Texas School Book Depository? And, last but not was the official investigation the most in-depth inquest ever to be carried out, or was it nothing more than a clumsy attempt to sweep things under the carpet?
Flip de Mey started his career as a lawyer, but studied further to become a forensic auditor specializing in the unraveling of fraud and other irregularities. His expertise based on many years of experience and his specific methods for analyzing complex dossiers served him well during the pursuit of his the assassination of JFK.
Flip de Mey started his career as a lawyer, but studied further to become a forensic auditor specializing in the unraveling of fraud and other irregularities. His expertise based on many years of experience and his specific methods for analyzing complex dossiers served him well during the pursuit of his the assassination of JFK.
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432 pages, Hardcover
First published May 29, 2013
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June 4, 2017
Flip de Mey attended the Dealey Plaza U.K. seminar in April 2017 and that was when I acquired this book as well as his follow up 'The Lee Harvey Oswald Files', both signed by the author.
'Cold Case Kennedy' was published in 2013 and as the front cover proclaims, offers a new investigation into the assassination of JFK.
I have to say that reading the first two parts of the text caused me to write comments in the margins concerned with factual errors and general disagreements. For instance Figure Two purports to show 'the route from Oswald's boading house to the place where police officer Tippit was murdered and from there to the Texas Theatre' when in fact this route is largely unknown, at least from boarding house to Tippit. It has to be acknowledged that this book deals only with Kennedy's death and does not really take account of the events on 10th and Patton.
However, the book is divided in Parts 1-7 and it is from Part 3 onwards that De Mey's legal background takes hold and his investigative skills begin to flow. I continually wondered which way he would go in the case. At times thinking he would condemn the 'lone nut' or at other times find for a conspiratorial verdict.
Of the mountain of JFK books that I have read, this one contains one of the finest probes into the shooting in Dealey Plaza, which supports the very contentious issue of Arlen Specter's 'magic bullet', providing the reader can negotiate the perpendicular distances, angles and cosines. Mr De Mey also firmly rejects any second shooter on the knoll.
After all these surprises it is Part 7 that ends, not with a whimper but a bang! The author's ' legal background cuts like a knife into the falsifications of evidence, obstructions of judicial process, false declarations and mountains of inadmissible evidence against Oswald. Yet, the bang comes in the 'Final Conclusions'. De Mey writes, "Jumping back and forth between two hypotheses, where one is even more improbable than the other, makes you intellectually seasick in the end. But wandering around endlessly in the labyrinth is also not an option. Kennedy was murdered, so one of the unproven hypotheses must be the right one."
The word 'labyrinth' derives from the Minoan 'double headed axe', and it is certainly surprising which way this writer's axe finally falls.
'Cold Case Kennedy' was published in 2013 and as the front cover proclaims, offers a new investigation into the assassination of JFK.
I have to say that reading the first two parts of the text caused me to write comments in the margins concerned with factual errors and general disagreements. For instance Figure Two purports to show 'the route from Oswald's boading house to the place where police officer Tippit was murdered and from there to the Texas Theatre' when in fact this route is largely unknown, at least from boarding house to Tippit. It has to be acknowledged that this book deals only with Kennedy's death and does not really take account of the events on 10th and Patton.
However, the book is divided in Parts 1-7 and it is from Part 3 onwards that De Mey's legal background takes hold and his investigative skills begin to flow. I continually wondered which way he would go in the case. At times thinking he would condemn the 'lone nut' or at other times find for a conspiratorial verdict.
Of the mountain of JFK books that I have read, this one contains one of the finest probes into the shooting in Dealey Plaza, which supports the very contentious issue of Arlen Specter's 'magic bullet', providing the reader can negotiate the perpendicular distances, angles and cosines. Mr De Mey also firmly rejects any second shooter on the knoll.
After all these surprises it is Part 7 that ends, not with a whimper but a bang! The author's ' legal background cuts like a knife into the falsifications of evidence, obstructions of judicial process, false declarations and mountains of inadmissible evidence against Oswald. Yet, the bang comes in the 'Final Conclusions'. De Mey writes, "Jumping back and forth between two hypotheses, where one is even more improbable than the other, makes you intellectually seasick in the end. But wandering around endlessly in the labyrinth is also not an option. Kennedy was murdered, so one of the unproven hypotheses must be the right one."
The word 'labyrinth' derives from the Minoan 'double headed axe', and it is certainly surprising which way this writer's axe finally falls.
August 30, 2025
Nog steeds, na meer dan zestig jaar is de moord op Kennedy de ultieme who done it.
In dit boek worden alle ongerijmdheden in het dossier secuur op een rijtje gezet. En er zijn er veel, de missers. Is dit een bewijs van een complot waarin ook politie, CIA, FBI en andere organisties zijn betrokken? Misschien naar misschien was het juist onkunde of verwarring en schok. In ieder geval is er veel meer aan de hand geweest dan wat de onbekwame Warrencommissie het publiek deed geloven.
Het boek leest vlot en is zeer informatief voor wie geïnteresseerd is in deze moord.
In dit boek worden alle ongerijmdheden in het dossier secuur op een rijtje gezet. En er zijn er veel, de missers. Is dit een bewijs van een complot waarin ook politie, CIA, FBI en andere organisties zijn betrokken? Misschien naar misschien was het juist onkunde of verwarring en schok. In ieder geval is er veel meer aan de hand geweest dan wat de onbekwame Warrencommissie het publiek deed geloven.
Het boek leest vlot en is zeer informatief voor wie geïnteresseerd is in deze moord.
November 25, 2017
It's a very interesting and thorough read. The translation is for the most part very good, but the editing was sometimes a tad sloppy. Nevertheless, I read this book for its content and that it presented very compellingly.
November 25, 2013
12:30 PM, Friday, November 22, 1963. The 35th president of the United States of America is shot. Fifty years on, the world is still asking: Was it really Lee Harvey Oswald who assassinated the president? Could one bullet - the so-called magic bullet - have caused seven consecutive injuries in two victims? What really happened on that Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas? There seems to be no simple answer.
In his book Cold Case Kennedy: A New Investigation into the Assassination of JFK, lawyer Flip de Mey passionately examined the case files and his conclusion is astounding. He divides the book into 7 parts, each examining different aspects of the case:
Part 1: Initial Orientation - details the chronology of events and how the initial investigation was essentially flawed.
Part 2: The Suspects - this section deals with a host of possible suspects who could have fired the shot that killed the president.
Part 3: The Bullets - this part of the book is essentially an examination of the evidences like the bullet, the weapon and a host of others.
Part 4: The Scene of the Crime - focuses on the crime scene, which was a sniper's nest.
Part 5: The Victims - this part examines the wounds sustained by the victims - Kennedy and Connally.
Part 6: Ballistic Investigation - this focuses on the flight path of the bullet, the shots fired and other related issues.
Part 7: Whodunit - this section minutely examines Oswald's whereabouts, his alibi, the dilemma of proving him guilty as charged and the author's conclusion on the whole episode.
Read it for yourself to know what it really is about. It is one of the most explosive books on the JFK assassination. If you want a book that systematically examines all aspects of the murder file, this is it. You'll find useful information hitherto unknown.
In his book Cold Case Kennedy: A New Investigation into the Assassination of JFK, lawyer Flip de Mey passionately examined the case files and his conclusion is astounding. He divides the book into 7 parts, each examining different aspects of the case:
Part 1: Initial Orientation - details the chronology of events and how the initial investigation was essentially flawed.
Part 2: The Suspects - this section deals with a host of possible suspects who could have fired the shot that killed the president.
Part 3: The Bullets - this part of the book is essentially an examination of the evidences like the bullet, the weapon and a host of others.
Part 4: The Scene of the Crime - focuses on the crime scene, which was a sniper's nest.
Part 5: The Victims - this part examines the wounds sustained by the victims - Kennedy and Connally.
Part 6: Ballistic Investigation - this focuses on the flight path of the bullet, the shots fired and other related issues.
Part 7: Whodunit - this section minutely examines Oswald's whereabouts, his alibi, the dilemma of proving him guilty as charged and the author's conclusion on the whole episode.
Read it for yourself to know what it really is about. It is one of the most explosive books on the JFK assassination. If you want a book that systematically examines all aspects of the murder file, this is it. You'll find useful information hitherto unknown.
April 4, 2021
Overall the author does an incredible job parsing through and presenting information to the reader. If you’re looking for a good in depth investigation into the Kennedy assassination, you need look no further. There were some things that turned me off a bit though, such as, poor editing and some politically motivated subjective opinions. If the reader can smell your political biases, it does make them wonder if they are truly being presented with fact and not opinion dressed up. However, the author recovers from this and does provide you with some great detailed exploration. Overall, recommended for Kennedy assassination explorers and those who maybe questioned the narrative.
January 1, 2018
8,5/10
De moord op Kennedy heeft me van kleins af aan erg geïntrigeerd. Dit boek geeft een gedetailleerde en klare kijk op de gebeurtenissen op 22 november 1963. Of de auteur het in zijn conclusie bij het rechte eind heeft, weet ik niet en is uiteindelijk ook niet relevant, maar doet je wel stevig nadenken over wat er écht aan de hand was. Boeiend...
De moord op Kennedy heeft me van kleins af aan erg geïntrigeerd. Dit boek geeft een gedetailleerde en klare kijk op de gebeurtenissen op 22 november 1963. Of de auteur het in zijn conclusie bij het rechte eind heeft, weet ik niet en is uiteindelijk ook niet relevant, maar doet je wel stevig nadenken over wat er écht aan de hand was. Boeiend...
January 11, 2022
De dood van deze jonge, controversiële, moderne, hippe, vooruitstrevende, Amerikaanse president spreekt me aan, ik lees veel over hem. Het is zo frapant, het hele verhaal. Dit boek is heel gedetailleerd en nog is het niet helemaal duidelijk of Lee Harvey Oswald nu echt alleen handelde. Misschien zal de waarheid van zijn dood nooit verteld worden, dit boek geeft toch al veel info.
November 18, 2013
Niet alleen op Amerikanen hebben de gebeurtenissen van de 22e november 1963 een onuitwisbare indruk gemaakt. Heel de wereld stond stil bij de moord op de Amerikaanse president John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) op klaarlichte dag in de stad Dallas. Flip de Mey schreef een onderzoek naar de gebeurtenissen in Cold Case Kennedy.
Jarenlang analyseerde jurist Filip De Mey de moord op de president. Het boek is opgezet als een dossier; het start met de betrokkenen, dan komen de gebeurtenissen en de bewijsstukken minutieus aan de orde. Elk bewijsstuk wordt met de grootste nauwkeurigheid behandeld, alsof De Mey de zaak zelf toebedeeld heeft gehad. In het laatste deel van het boek legt De Mey verbanden tussen alle betrokkenen en bewijsstukken. Met deze opbouw weet De Mey feilloos de blunders in het onderzoek dat werd uitgevoerd door de Warren Commissie bloot te leggen.
Het is bij lange na niet het eerste werk over de moord op JFK, de zeer objectiverende benadering levert ook geen razend spannend boek op, maar Cold Case Kennedy maakt waar met zijn bijzondere juridische onderzoeksaanpak.
Lees de volledige recensie van Marco Camphens op http://bit.ly/1dNy73L
Jarenlang analyseerde jurist Filip De Mey de moord op de president. Het boek is opgezet als een dossier; het start met de betrokkenen, dan komen de gebeurtenissen en de bewijsstukken minutieus aan de orde. Elk bewijsstuk wordt met de grootste nauwkeurigheid behandeld, alsof De Mey de zaak zelf toebedeeld heeft gehad. In het laatste deel van het boek legt De Mey verbanden tussen alle betrokkenen en bewijsstukken. Met deze opbouw weet De Mey feilloos de blunders in het onderzoek dat werd uitgevoerd door de Warren Commissie bloot te leggen.
Het is bij lange na niet het eerste werk over de moord op JFK, de zeer objectiverende benadering levert ook geen razend spannend boek op, maar Cold Case Kennedy maakt waar met zijn bijzondere juridische onderzoeksaanpak.
Lees de volledige recensie van Marco Camphens op http://bit.ly/1dNy73L
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December 11, 2014De moord op de meest charismatische President die Amerika ooit had doet al 50 jaar heel wat stof opwaaien. Het boek geeft een verhelderende blik over het hoe en waarom van de moord, zeer gedetailleerd weergegeven. De blunders, de doofpotoperaties, het verdraaien van de waarheid enzovoort duiden overduidelijk op een moordcomplot met als hoofdrolspeler de CIA, in opdracht van zowel de maffia als de olie industrie, die gemeenschappelijke belangen hadden in het uit de weg ruimen van JFK. Het boek leest als een thriller, jammer genoeg met waarschijnlijk de meest verdienstelijke Amerikaanse president ooit in de hoofdrol...
November 1, 2013
Suffers from poor translation into English. Words are sometimes politically incorrect or culturally strange. There are also large sways of subjective judgements against the likes of Nixon and Bush Snr., that leave you feeling the book has a partisan agenda. It is a book written by a bright analytical man however and does create legitimate doubt over the findings of the Warren Commission and the events on the 22nd November 1963. Some conclusions feel hastily jumped upon but others make perfect sense. I was left with the feeling that Lee Harvey Oswald was guilty of something and with questions.
December 29, 2013
Read this book and your view on the Kennedy murder will never be the same. A very solid account of what happened in Dallas and especially of what happened afterwards in the investigation: an incredible mess! Was Lee Harvey Oswald a lone lunatic? Very very very unlikely!
Not 5 stars because there are a few minor mistakes in the text.
Not 5 stars because there are a few minor mistakes in the text.
June 13, 2015
I don't like opening a non fiction book (or any book for that matter) and seeing grammatical and historical errors on the first page.
I was disappointed, was hoping for a new Kennedy book to sink my teeth into :(
I was disappointed, was hoping for a new Kennedy book to sink my teeth into :(
December 20, 2013
Lots of data. Lots of it.
July 27, 2015
een grondige analyse van de feiten,maar de conclusie is dan weer wat kort door de bocht.
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