Without Smoking Gun: Was the Death of Lt. Cmdr. William Pitzer Part of the JFK Assassination Cover-up Conspiracy?
Thursday, July 29th, 2010 at
3:59 am
Product Description
This shocking account of intrigue, lies, and governmental complicity provides dramatic evidence that suggests a larger conspiracy behind JFK’s assassination. Three years after Kennedy’s assassination, Lieutenant William Bruce Pitzer, who was reputed to have in his possession documents and film that refuted the conclusions of JFK’s official autopsy, was found dead in his office at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1995, a retired special for… More >>
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Good, but ULTIMATE SACRIFICE the best book ever
While I thought this book was worthwhile in many respects, ULTIMATE SACRIFICE is simply the best book ever on the JFK assassination.Still, worth your time.
Vince Palamara-JFK/ Secret Service expert (History Channel, author of two books, in over 30 other author’s books, etc.)
Pittsburgh, PA
Rating: 3 / 5
Basic questions remain. If the CIA was so intent on terminating the Lt.Cmdr.’s command, why did they wait FIFTEEN months after approaching Marvin in August of ’65 to murder Pitzer? One would think that the CIA must have been on pins and needles until October of ’66 when they could finally rest assured that Pitzer would not spill the beans about the truth of the JFK autopsy. A much simpler scenario would simply have been to steal, alter or otherwise make disappear the dreaded film shot by Pitzer. Since he did not die until nearly three years after JFK, and there could be no real assurance that he had not made a copy of the film, nor shown it to anyone in the meantime, the conspirators must have been drinking Pepto Bismol by the gallon for years. This is not to say that President Kennedy was not murdered by a conspiracy. He was. Rather, the key figure in this book, Daniel Marvin, needs to explain the aforementioned problems with the scenario he has been pushing for over a decade. It is not enough for him to assert that his own credibility speaks for itself. Kent Heiner may be a professional writer, but he has selected a subject and a theory that is simply not believable. If there are answers to the above questions, Heiner has a duty to ferret them out from Marvin. I don’t think it can be done.
Rating: 2 / 5
I’m certainly not a JFK assassination buff to the extent of many potential readers reading these reviews, however I’ve read perhaps 75-100 books on the subject over the past 35 years and this one was one of the most unsatisfying. It’s a short book (just 120 pages) so you can read it cover to cover in one long sitting. That said, it seemed the author worked hard to extend it to that length. He gets off on tangents that seem irrelevant to the primary focus of his topic. He spends a lot of time and words building up the credibiliy of his primary witness, only to reveal near the end that this witness has credibility issues. A few interesting questions are raised but the author has only supposition and conflicting evidence to reveal. When I finished I was frustrated…and thinking that all of this could have easily been distilled into a medium length magazine article
Rating: 1 / 5
Without Smoking Gun, a nonfiction work by Kent Heiner, should get your blood boiling and, unless you are a mild-mannered Mr. Milquetoast, your body functioning in whatever way you so decide to do your part in helping bring those to justice who not only inspired and developed, but perpetrated some of the most heinous political crimes of the past century including the cold-blooded murders of President John F. Kennedy, Lt. Cmdr. William Bruce Pitzer and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
What would you do if you knew that our government was lying about the greatest crime of your time and a dear friend who had shown you proof of this government’s cover-up died violently and without warning? Would you tell anyone? Meet retired U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Dennis David who recalls the day in 1963 that U.S. Navy officer and beloved mentor Bill Pitzer showed him a film taken by a remotely controlled camera of the actual autopsy of President John F. Kennedy’s dead body and some still photographs of that same autopsy. These images, the two men agreed, made it clear that the President had been shot from the front, not the rear, despite what the American public was being told.
Meet the late Lieutenant Commander William Bruce Pitzer, who in 1966 was found shot and killed in his office at the National Naval Medical Center, where the President’s autopsy had been performed after the tragedy in Dallas.
What would you do if you realized you had almost been an unwitting pawn in the murder of an important witness? Meet the author of this review: I am retired U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin. I am a combat veteran of two wars, and I am willing to testify before Congress that I was asked to kill Lieutenant Commander Pitzer, “a man who was going to give secrets to the enemy” or so the CIA agent told me in a secret meeting under the pines in the first week of August in 1965 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Is such a scenario possible? Yes and I am willing to testify to that fact before Congress, tell them why I am known as “Dangerous Dan” and why I feel obligated to tell the truth to this nation.- to this world..
Read of retired Green Beret Lieutenant Colonel James “Bo” Gritz’s having admitted his role (then a captain) as an instructor at the Special Warfare School, writing in an e-mail to Kent Heiner, “We were teaching assassination and terrorism as part of the UW [unconventional warfare] fields of Direct Action missions and GW [guerrilla warfare].
Meet other retired military and CIA officers who agree that there was indeed a conspiracy to assassinate President Kennedy and that the United States does indeed use assassination and terrorism as a tool of statecraft. .
Fasten your seatbelts for a devastating journey through recent history. Read eye-witness testimony that I believe, if presented in a court of law, would prove that the President’s body was tampered with before being autopsied. Find out why there is reason to suspect that LCDR Pitzer recorded that alteration on film and was killed in order to find and destroy that evidence. Go behind closed doors to see the infighting and prejudices which plagued the Presidential Commission charged to investigate the assassination. Go back in time to 1966, when private doubts about the Commission’s findings snowballed into a public demand for answers, and the Kennedy family was preparing to turn over JFK’s autopsy photos to the National Archives. Watch the drama of Pitzer’s final days unfold as a 1963 FBI report is discovered which describes “surgery” on the President’s body prior to autopsy, sending the Establishment into panic.
The author, Kent Heiner, is the founder and president of Mem Research, a non-profit organization supporting research into state-organized crime. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in International
Rating: 5 / 5
It’s nice to know we can delve a little deeper into the life of a figure, Lt Cmdr William Pitzer, who up till now was just another mysterious death in the long list of JFK casualties. We see a more personal side of this man and some of the virtues (as well as shortcomings) of someone who honorably served his country.
The book gives a fair amount of attention to the controversial testimony of LTC Dan Marvin, who claims he was approached by the Agency in the mid-60s to assassinate Pitzer. I’ve always felt Marvin was sincere in his testimony, however the lack of clear facts and misleading (or eluding) evidence seems to haunt his credibility. The author tries to cover it from an objective point of view, and perhaps did all he could do given the circumstances.
Unfortunately the book dives into the all-too-common, endless maze of the “who-dunnit” scenarios, where “this shady figure was connected to this shady figure, who was connected to this other shady figure” and on and on, not to mention the CIA/mafia/opium/Vietnam war/Ollie North/Bush connections and rhetorical accusations blaming the Agency for practically all the word’s evils and mishaps. Whether or not there’s truth to some of the stuff presented here is not for me to say, but I don’t think it helps to include it in this particular investigation; rather, it bogs the book down and throws it off track. The author says all this groundwork is necessary to understanding the big picture and attempts to wake us up to the reality of how crooked our government is and how it really operates. Either that or it was just filler material thrown in to make a complete book. Whatever the case, these “revelations” can be readily accessed from the endless number of books, magazines, and Internet articles out there claiming to expose “inside truths” of government conspiracy, where it’s difficult to distinguish fact from hearsay (or paranoia).
For more insight into the personal life of Pitzer and detailed testimony of Dan Marvin, I would recommend it. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of unnecessary, distracting stuff included in the book that would have been best left out.
Rating: 3 / 5