The Four Guns
By: John Koerner - Chronos Books - $13.95
Overview: What would our country be today if Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy had survived their assassinations?
Would this country, and the world we live in today, be better or worse?
What if Lincoln and McKinley had lived through their second terms?
What if Garfield and Kennedy had completed their four years in office, and gone on to get reelected?
Verdict: The Four Guns has three purposes: First, to explain the circumstances surrounding the four assassinations and examine any evidence for possible conspiracy.
The second is to trace the history of the four assassination weapons - readers will learn the types of firearms used, how the assassins acquired them, and where they are now - most of this information has never been written about or made public.
The third purpose is to examine how American history would have changed if the presidents had survived their assassinations - and to show just how much these four weapons deprived us of a better future.
As the author himself states from the off, The Four Guns: The Stolen History of the Assassinated Presidents begins by explaining the circumstances surrounding the four assassinations, inclusive of drawing parity from one another of his authored books, Why the CIA Killed JFK and Malcolm X: The Secret Drug Trade in Laos (the Kennedy assassination therein), and for some other pointers he tracks back within the past of Lee Harvey Oswald for inclusive relevance.
For the McKinley assassination, he partly draws parity from another book he authored, The Secret Plot to Kill McKinley, and what is unique here is that his approach to all four assassinations is that he examines credible evidence of a conspiracy.
However, and even with that said, he does fully admit that he does this reluctantly, for the word conspiracy has a negative connotation, even though many political assassinations in history are often the words of more than the one person.
They typically take extensive planning, preparation and organization and although the four people in these noted assassinations are long since dead, there is no reason to hide from the truth.
In conclusion, The Four Guns: The Stolen History of the Assassinated Presidents is a meticulously well-researched and dutifully written book, entertaining and informational in equal measures.
Author Koerner uses his astutely logical brain to bring forth cohesive analysis of what could (and lest we forget that word) have happened if each president had survived their assassinations, which makes this a highly intriguing, suggestive and yet at times methodically logical prose.
About the Author - John Koerner is an author of several historical books which focus on conspiracies and the paranormal. He is a professor of American History, and is also the founder of Paranormal Walks, a ghost tour company which explores the paranormal history of Western New York. Koerner has appeared on America’s Book of Secrets on the History Channel, and William Shatner’s Weird or What on the Discovery Channel. He lives in Buffalo, New York, with his wife and family.
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