David Fisher (24)

4/5

Dan Abrams & David Fisher do a great job in showing that no matter the political climate. Truth and the law should matter. When we deviate and pick and chose what laws are worth imposing our institutions crumble. Sadly we don’t have leaders like John Adams anymore who could stand up to a mob even when he agrees with them politically. He could and would do the right thing no matter the polling.

Best quote:
“If the legal system could be bent to achieve a desired political outcome any liberty that came of it would be worthless.”

Dan Abrams & David Fisher

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5774. Kennedy's Avenger Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby, by Dan Abrams and David Fisher (read 12 Jan 2022) This book, published in 2021, tells of the fantastic trial of Jack Ruby, who on Nov 24, 1963, shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, who on 22 Nov 1963 assassinated President Kennedy. Ruby was represented at that trial by Melvin Belli, who was a wild man. The presiding judge, Joseph Brown, who foolishly never used a gavel, though he should have, made many stupid errors during the trial and allowed unbelievably bizarre behavior by the lawyers, The evidence at the trial is set out in such detail that the account was boring but outside of that defect one is caught up in the account. I confess that I had forgotten how the trial turned out--and I was glad I had because that made reading the book more interesting. The trial lasted weeks but the jury returned its verdict in two hours! The verdict was eventually set aside and a new trial ordered--but Ruby died before the new trial could begin. The book is filled with fantastic things and I was amazed that the lawyers and the judge did such unlikely things. A book filled with annoying events but definitely an exciting read,… (more)