JFK assassination books

[Josh]

As I go through Ventura’s book, I am getting lots of good references to pursue. Why does he have so many? Partly because he is open-minded, but mainly because he co-authored a couple of books with Dick Russell he is a conspiracy specialist who had already authored books, & researched many topics in the area. Russell’s other books are mostly on Skyhorse publishing and apparently relatively unknown. So there was a motivation to push that info out there, using Ventura as a suitable & agreeable vehicle for that.

Then I go to Amazon, partly to get ISBN’s – which is the fastest way to create good records for a book in Zotero – and partly because Amazon’s related books recommendations tends to come up with a lot of useful stuff which is not well known. So these processes iterate. I pursue them together, not because getting more is my #1 priority, but just because they cluster together in the workflow, and seeing/reading what’s available influence my thinking quickly…I like to do that at early stages.

Your reference to the Bonus Army and Business Plot – which I didn’t previously know about – turned out to be a real gateway, even though the events were long ago & not that colossal as the played out. Why? Because…find common patterns over time, in slightly different circumstances, is an important way of analyzing the objects of social sciences – people, institutions, histories, politics, motivations for action, media coverage, etc. Lacking the ability of a physical scientist to set up and re-run controlled experiments in a lab, one looks for real world cases that match on some dimensions while differing on others. Finding common patterns & anti-patterns in the cases is evidential, and important for teasing apart strong & weak hypotheses.

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