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'''Harold Weisberg''' (April 8, 1913 – February 21, 2002)<ref name=LOC>{{cite web|title=Weisberg, Harold, 1913-2002|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018806|work=id.loc.gov|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=January 26, 2014|author=Library of Congress|authorlink=Library of Congress|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> served as an
'''Harold Weisberg''' (April 8, 1913 – February 21, 2002)<ref name=LOC>{{cite web|title=Weisberg, Harold, 1913-2002|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018806|work=id.loc.gov|publisher=Library of Congress|accessdate=January 26, 2014|author=Library of Congress|authorlink=Library of Congress|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> served as an
[[Office of Strategic Services]] officer during [[World War II]], a U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, an investigator for the [[La Follette Committee|Senate Committee on Civil Liberties]], and a U.S. State Department intelligence analyst who devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassinations of John F. Kennedy]] and [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weisberg |first1=Harold |title=Frame-up : the assassination of Martin Luther King |date=September 3, 2013 |publisher=Skyhorse Pub |isbn=978-1626360211 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Frame_Up.html?id=E3fQwAEACAAJ}}</ref> He wrote ten self-published and published books and approximately thirty-five unpublished books related to the details for those assassinations, mostly with respect to Kennedy's assassination.<ref name=Bernstein>{{cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Adam|title=H. Weisberg, 88; Critic of JFK Report|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2002/feb/25/local/me-harold25|accessdate=January 26, 2014|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=February 25, 2002}}</ref>
[[Office of Strategic Services]] officer during [[World War II]], a U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, an investigator for the [[La Follette Committee|Senate Committee on Civil Liberties]], and a U.S. State Department intelligence analyst who devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|assassinations of John F. Kennedy]] and [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weisberg |first1=Harold |title=Frame-up : the assassination of Martin Luther King |date=September 3, 2013 |publisher=Skyhorse Pub |isbn=978-1626360211 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3fQwAEACAAJ}}</ref> He wrote ten self-published and published books and approximately thirty-five unpublished books related to the details for those assassinations, mostly with respect to Kennedy's assassination.<ref name=Bernstein>{{cite news|last=Bernstein|first=Adam|title=H. Weisberg, 88; Critic of JFK Report|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-25-me-harold25-story.html|access-date=January 26, 2014|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times|date=February 25, 2002}}</ref>


Weisberg was a strong critic of the [[Warren Commission]] report and of the methods used in investigating President Kennedy's murder. In this regard, he was ''[[avant-garde]]'', embarking on a course that many other [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorists]] would later come to follow. Weisberg is best known for his seminal work, ''Whitewash'', where he wrote: "Following thousands of hours of research in and analysis of the vast, chaotic, deliberately disorganized, padded and largely meaningless 26 volumes of the testimony and exhibits of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its 900-page Report – millions of words of which are not needed and are merely diversionary – I published the results of my investigation in a book, ''Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report''. In this book, I establish that the inquiry into the assassination was a whitewash, using as proof only what the Commission avoided, ignored, misrepresented and suppressed of its own evidence."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weisberg |first1=Harold |title=Whitewash II: The FBI-Secret Service Cover-Up |date=October 1, 2013 |publisher=Skyhorse Pub. |isbn=978-1628735727 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FuCDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>
Weisberg was a strong critic of the [[Warren Commission]] report and of the methods used in investigating President Kennedy's murder. In this regard, he was ''[[avant-garde]]'', embarking on a course that many other [[Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theorists]] would later come to follow. Weisberg is best known for his seminal work, ''Whitewash'', where he wrote: "Following thousands of hours of research in and analysis of the vast, chaotic, deliberately disorganized, padded and largely meaningless 26 volumes of the testimony and exhibits of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its 900-page Report – millions of words of which are not needed and are merely diversionary – I published the results of my investigation in a book, ''Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report''. In this book, I establish that the inquiry into the assassination was a whitewash, using as proof only what the Commission avoided, ignored, misrepresented and suppressed of its own evidence."<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weisberg |first1=Harold |title=Whitewash II: The FBI-Secret Service Cover-Up |date=October 1, 2013 |publisher=Skyhorse Pub. |isbn=978-1628735727 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FuCDwAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>
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==Harold Weisberg Archive==
==Harold Weisberg Archive==
In 1992, Weisberg decided to leave his files to [[Hood College]], where the documents were scanned and digitized at [http://jfk.hood.edu/ jfk.hood.edu].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Riechmann |first1=Deb |title=JFK Researcher Leaves Work to Hood College |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1992/08/06/jfk-researcher-leaves-work-to-hood-college/ce421c5b-fca2-4904-8fb1-324f72de3d28/ |work=Washington Post |date=August 6, 1992}}</ref>
In 1992, Weisberg decided to leave his files to [[Hood College]], where the documents were scanned and digitized at [http://jfk.hood.edu/ jfk.hood.edu].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Riechmann |first1=Deb |title=JFK Researcher Leaves Work to Hood College |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1992/08/06/jfk-researcher-leaves-work-to-hood-college/ce421c5b-fca2-4904-8fb1-324f72de3d28/ |newspaper=Washington Post |date=August 6, 1992}}</ref>


==Publications==
==Publications==
===Books===
===Books===
* ''Whitewash.'' New York: [[Dell Publishing]] (1966)<ref>[[John Kaplan (law professor)|Kaplan, John]]. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1227605 "The Assassins." Reviews of ''Rush to Judgment'' by Mark Lane; ''Inquest'' by Edward Jay Epstein; ''Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report'' by Harold Weisberg; ''The Oswald Affair'' by Léo Sauvage; ''The Second Oswald'' by Richard H. Popkin.] ''[[Stanford Law Review]]'', Vol. 19, No. 5 (1967) pp. 1110–1151. {{JSTOR|1227605}}.</ref>
* ''Whitewash.'' New York: [[Dell Publishing]] (1966).<ref>[[John Kaplan (law professor)|Kaplan, John]]. [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1227605 "The Assassins." Reviews of ''Rush to Judgment'' by Mark Lane; ''Inquest'' by Edward Jay Epstein; ''Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report'' by Harold Weisberg; ''The Oswald Affair'' by Léo Sauvage; ''The Second Oswald'' by Richard H. Popkin.] ''[[Stanford Law Review]]'', vol. 19, no. 5 (1967), pp. 1110–1151. {{JSTOR|1227605}}.</ref>
* ''Whitewash II: The FBI-Secret Service Cover Up.'' New York: [[Dell Publishing]] (1967)
* ''Whitewash II: The FBI-Secret Service Cover Up.'' New York: [[Dell Publishing]] (1967).
* ''Photographic Whitewash.'' Frederick, MD: Privately published (1967)
* ''Photographic Whitewash: Suppressed Kennedy Assassination Pictures.'' Frederick, Maryland: Weisberg (May 1967). {{ISBN|978-0911606034}}.
* ''Oswald in New Orleans: Case for Conspiracy with the C.I.A.'' Foreword by [[Jim Garrison]]. New York: Canyon Books (1967)
* ''Oswald in New Orleans: Case for Conspiracy with the CIA.'' Foreword by [[Jim Garrison]]. New York: Canyon Books (1967). {{ISBN|978-1626360587}}.
* ''Frame-Up: The Assassination of Martin Luther King'' (1970)
* ''Frame-Up: The Assassination of Martin Luther King'' (1970).
** 2013 edition published by Skyhorse and distributed by [[Simon & Schuster]] includes an afterword by [[James Earl Ray]].
** Republished in 2013 by Skyhorse & [[Simon & Schuster]] with an afterword by [[James Earl Ray]].
* ''Whitewash IV: Top Secret JFK Assassination Transcript,'' with a legal analysis by Jim Lesar. Frederick, Mary.: Weisberg (1974).
* ''Post Mortem.'' Frederick, MD: Privately published (1975)
* ''Post Mortem: JFK Assassination Cover Up.'' Frederick, Maryland: Weisberg (1975).
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* ''Case Open.'' New York: [[Carroll & Graf]] (1994)
* ''Martin Luther King: The Assassination'' (1993).
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* ''Selections from Whitewash''. New York: [[Carroll & Graf]] (1993) {{ISBN|978-0786700165}}.
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=Q2YtAgAAQBAJ ''Never Again! The Government Conspiracy in the JFK Assassination.''] New York: [[Carroll & Graf]] (1995). {{ISBN|978-0786702060}}.
* ''Case Open: Unanswered JFK Assassination Questions''. New York: [[Carroll & Graf]] (1996). {{ISBN|978-0786700981}}.
** Also titled: ''Case Open: The Omissions, Distortions and Falsifications of Case Closed''.


===Manuscripts===
===Manuscripts===
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===Book reviews===
===Book reviews===
* [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4465463 Review of ''Reinhold Niebuhr, His Religious, Social and Political Thought''] by Charles Kegley and Robert W. Bretall. ''[[Journal of Jewish Social Studies|Jewish Social Studies]]'', vol. 18, no. 3 (1956): 224–226. {{JSTOR|4465463}}.
* [http://www.jstor.org/stable/4465463 Review of ''Reinhold Niebuhr, His Religious, Social and Political Thought''] by Charles Kegley and Robert W. Bretall. ''[[Jewish Social Studies]]'', vol. 18, no. 3 (1956): 224–226. {{JSTOR|4465463}}.


===Speeches===
===Speeches===
* [https://ia801300.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/10/items/nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold/nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold/Speeches%20Harold%20Weisberg%2001_jp2.zip&file=Speeches%20Harold%20Weisberg%2001_jp2/Speeches%20Harold%20Weisberg%2001_0000.jp2&id=nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold&scale=4&rotate=0 "Looking Backward to Look Ahead."] [[Frederick, Maryland]] (April 20, 1975)
* [https://ia801300.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/10/items/nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold/nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold/Speeches%20Harold%20Weisberg%2001_jp2.zip&file=Speeches%20Harold%20Weisberg%2001_jp2/Speeches%20Harold%20Weisberg%2001_0000.jp2&id=nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold&scale=4&rotate=0 "Looking Backward to Look Ahead."] [[Frederick, Maryland]] (April 20, 1975)
* [https://ia801300.us.archive.org/10/items/nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold/nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold/Speeches%20Harold%20Weisberg%2002.pdf "New JFK Assassination Evidence."] [[University of Maryland]] (June 13, 1975)
* [https://archive.org/details/nsia-SpeechesWeisbergHarold "New JFK Assassination Evidence."] [[University of Maryland]] (June 13, 1975)


===Testimony===
===Testimony===
* [https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/garr/grandjury/pdf/Weisberg.pdf Testimony,] with [[Jim Garrison]]. Grand Jury Proceedings Special Investigations. Orleans Parish Grand Jury (April 28, 1967)
* [https://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/garr/grandjury/pdf/Weisberg.pdf Testimony], with [[Jim Garrison]]. Grand Jury Proceedings Special Investigations. Orleans Parish Grand Jury (April 28, 1967)


===Other===
===Other===
* [[iarchive:early-draft-of-jfk-by-oliver-stone-and-zachary-sklar.-handwritten-notes-by-resea|Film script for "JFK" (1st version)]] by [[Oliver Stone]] and Zachary Sklar.
* [[iarchive:early-draft-of-jfk-by-oliver-stone-and-zachary-sklar.-handwritten-notes-by-resea|Film script for "JFK" (1st version)]] by [[Oliver Stone]] and Zachary Sklar.
::This item has been digitized from Oliver Stone’s personal copy of the first version of the film script, and it contains handwritten notes from Harold Weisberg.
::This item has been digitized from Oliver Stone’s personal copy of the first version of the film script, and it contains handwritten notes from Harold Weisberg.

==See also==
*[[Mary Ferrell]]


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 11:31, 28 November 2024

Harold Weisberg (April 8, 1913 – February 21, 2002)[1] served as an Office of Strategic Services officer during World War II, a U.S. Senate staff member and investigative reporter, an investigator for the Senate Committee on Civil Liberties, and a U.S. State Department intelligence analyst who devoted 40 years of his life to researching and writing about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.[2] He wrote ten self-published and published books and approximately thirty-five unpublished books related to the details for those assassinations, mostly with respect to Kennedy's assassination.[3]

Weisberg was a strong critic of the Warren Commission report and of the methods used in investigating President Kennedy's murder. In this regard, he was avant-garde, embarking on a course that many other conspiracy theorists would later come to follow. Weisberg is best known for his seminal work, Whitewash, where he wrote: "Following thousands of hours of research in and analysis of the vast, chaotic, deliberately disorganized, padded and largely meaningless 26 volumes of the testimony and exhibits of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its 900-page Report – millions of words of which are not needed and are merely diversionary – I published the results of my investigation in a book, Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report. In this book, I establish that the inquiry into the assassination was a whitewash, using as proof only what the Commission avoided, ignored, misrepresented and suppressed of its own evidence."[4]

On February 21, 2002, Weisberg died of cardiovascular disease at his home in Frederick, Maryland.[3]

Harold Weisberg Archive

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In 1992, Weisberg decided to leave his files to Hood College, where the documents were scanned and digitized at jfk.hood.edu.[5]

Publications

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Books

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  • Whitewash. New York: Dell Publishing (1966).[6]
  • Whitewash II: The FBI-Secret Service Cover Up. New York: Dell Publishing (1967).
  • Photographic Whitewash: Suppressed Kennedy Assassination Pictures. Frederick, Maryland: Weisberg (May 1967). ISBN 978-0911606034.
  • Oswald in New Orleans: Case for Conspiracy with the CIA. Foreword by Jim Garrison. New York: Canyon Books (1967). ISBN 978-1626360587.
  • Frame-Up: The Assassination of Martin Luther King (1970).
  • Whitewash IV: Top Secret JFK Assassination Transcript, with a legal analysis by Jim Lesar. Frederick, Mary.: Weisberg (1974).
  • Post Mortem: JFK Assassination Cover Up. Frederick, Maryland: Weisberg (1975).
  • Martin Luther King: The Assassination (1993).
  • Selections from Whitewash. New York: Carroll & Graf (1993) ISBN 978-0786700165.
  • Never Again! The Government Conspiracy in the JFK Assassination. New York: Carroll & Graf (1995). ISBN 978-0786702060.
  • Case Open: Unanswered JFK Assassination Questions. New York: Carroll & Graf (1996). ISBN 978-0786700981.
    • Also titled: Case Open: The Omissions, Distortions and Falsifications of Case Closed.

Manuscripts

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Articles

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  • "Darken Your House for... More Docule Birds Less Cannibalism." Everybody’s Poultry Magazine (October 1962): 9, 11, 36.
  • "Hysteria in Meat-Tyoe Birds." Everybody’s Poultry Magazine (December 1962): 9-10, 35.

Book reviews

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Speeches

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Testimony

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  • Testimony, with Jim Garrison. Grand Jury Proceedings Special Investigations. Orleans Parish Grand Jury (April 28, 1967)

Other

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This item has been digitized from Oliver Stone’s personal copy of the first version of the film script, and it contains handwritten notes from Harold Weisberg.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Library of Congress. "Weisberg, Harold, 1913-2002". id.loc.gov. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  2. ^ Weisberg, Harold (September 3, 2013). Frame-up : the assassination of Martin Luther King. Skyhorse Pub. ISBN 978-1626360211.
  3. ^ a b Bernstein, Adam (February 25, 2002). "H. Weisberg, 88; Critic of JFK Report". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
  4. ^ Weisberg, Harold (October 1, 2013). Whitewash II: The FBI-Secret Service Cover-Up. Skyhorse Pub. ISBN 978-1628735727.
  5. ^ Riechmann, Deb (August 6, 1992). "JFK Researcher Leaves Work to Hood College". Washington Post.
  6. ^ Kaplan, John. "The Assassins." Reviews of Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane; Inquest by Edward Jay Epstein; Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report by Harold Weisberg; The Oswald Affair by Léo Sauvage; The Second Oswald by Richard H. Popkin. Stanford Law Review, vol. 19, no. 5 (1967), pp. 1110–1151. JSTOR 1227605.

Further reading

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