From: Ed Ela Sent: Friday, August 2, 2013 1:33 PM To: Epstein, Jeff Subject: Alexander Chancellor Review of my book today in The Spectator //www.spectator.co.uk/books/8969551/the-annals-of-unsolved-crime-by-edw=rd-jay-epstein-review/ The Annals of Unsolved Crime Edward Jay Epstein Melville House, pp.333, £12.99 Edward Jay Epstein is an American investigative journalist who has =pent at least half a century trying to find answers to the troubling =heories and nagging questions that always swirl around notorious =rimes. The more famous the crime, the harder it is to get at the =ruth, especially if the crime has political consequences. For example, =ohn Wilkes Booth, who murdered Abraham Lincoln in 1865, was quickly =roven to have been part of a conspiracy involving leaders of the =efeated Confederate states; but when a reunited country was later =eeking reconciliation, it was found expedient to suppress this fact =nd portray him instead as a deranged individual who had acted alone. In the case of the Reichstag fire of 1933, which brought Adolf Hitler =o power, the opposite was the case. It suited the Nazis to blame it on = conspiracy by the communists, and the communists on a conspiracy by =he Nazis; and most people believed in one or other of these two =onspiracy theories. But it seems that in reality there may have been =nly one individual involved — the unbalanced Dutch arsonist Marinus =an der Lubbe, who actually lit the fire and was later beheaded for =oing it. As for the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy, which Epstein =imself investigated in depth, and about which he wrote the first of =is 14 books, The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth, he =till doubts the Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted =lone and believes that he was following instructions from the Cuban =ntelligence service, which was bent on revenge for the CIA's =ttempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. The 54 'unsolved crimes' analysed in this