Dr. Mary’s Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, … Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics
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- ISBN13: 9780977795307
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The 1964 murder of a nationally known cancer researcher sets the stage for this gripping exposé of medical professionals enmeshed in covert government operations over the course of three decades. Following a trail of police records, FBI files, cancer statistics, and medical journals, this revealing book presents evidence of a web of medical secret-keeping that started with the handling of evidence in the JFK assassination and nonstop apace, sweeping doctors into coverups of cancer outbreaks, contaminated polio vaccine, the arrival of the AIDS virus, and biological weapon research using infected monkeys.
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I establish the first half of this book much more appealing than the second. The juicy storyline that combined local, New Orleans landmarks and well-known events was riveting, yet I eventually grew tired of all the assumptions passed off as fact, built on nothing more than the leader’s personal memories from childhood, speculations and coincidence. The book’s revelatory conclusions are generally supported with exclamation points (!) rather than documentation.
As a quick ‘for instance’: During one chapter, the writer recounts a meeting w/the national of a classmate during his first days at Tulane University. This female classmate happens to live in an apartment whose take up would later factor into his theory of conspiracy. Upon meeting her Latin national who claims to work part time as a mechanic at a service station in Jefferson Parish, the leader dismisses this stated occupation as an obvious lie and take in-up for something more political and sinister. Haslam offers that the man is obviously a Cuban refugee, involved in political espionage. Because, reasonably simply, there would be plenty of New Orleans stations in need of a mechanic therefore, he must be lying if he says he drives all of the way out to the suburbs for part time work. This is one of the first flashes we see of Haslam’s delusional paranoia in the pages of this book. (pp79-80)
Later, in an attempt to give credibility to a convenient source who appears at the end of the book, one whose tale appears from seemingly out of nowhere to magically link together all of the wild speculations in the authors 1995 work (between Lee Harvey Oswald w/Dr Alton Oschner, US Congressmen, the Mafia and to secret Govt. research that may or may not have made AIDS…the list goes on and on, seriously these are just a few of the fundamentals involved in this man’s conspiracy theory). He states with no suspicion that the when a young woman living in New Orleans (Uptown near Marengo and Magazine St.), waiting for a few weeks for her secret, Govt. research position to start, Judith Vary Baker, having no car and no knowledge of the area, takes part-time work at a hamburger restaurant just outside of the Airport and next door to a mafia hotel where she becomes better friends w/Lee Harvey Oswald who is out there all of the time, running errands for crime boss, Carlos Marcello…..phew…..I’m out of breath after that one.
The point here is that the Airport is 1/2 an hour from her apartment, and that’s on today’s roads, in a car. She had no car, at least she didn’t when she was taking the bus to work w/Oswald in the earlier chapters. Yet, no suspicion is cast on this aver, and he had multiple, lengthy personal meetings with this woman. He only casually met the Latin mechanic once, in passing; the two were total strangers, yet he invents some sinister identity for the man which he then builds upon to make even more treacherous speculation when it is the tale of Ms. Baker that seems the more unbelievable of the two. (p318)
And, that’s pretty much the M.O. for this work; the convenient is taken at face value by Haslam, the inconvenient is wrestled and warped into a fashion more suitable for his purposes. If it were fiction, it would be ridiculous and unbelievable. As non-fiction, it is poor; most of its main characters are dead or imaginary, freeing the leader from any sort of responsibility in accurately depicting their lives and work, and rendering them incapable of corroborating evidence or defending themselves. If I had to write a two word review of this book, it would be: “Unaccountable Speculation.”
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I suppose Gerald Posner would consider this book too inconsequential to take on with one of his myth-busting efforts, so I have to look at it with my predictable result to conspiracy theories – the larger the conspiracy or the larger the event the conspiracy affects, the more dubious I have to be that no one really involved has ever really come out and blown the take in off the official tale. That said, I reflect New Orleans natives will find this appealing just for the cultural look back at the period and places. Others might want to pass until a name else bites on the leader’s tale.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
I was so excited about getting this book and ongoing reading it as soon as I get it out of the box. But about 2/3s of the was through I ongoing realizing that so much of it was circumstancial evidence and hearsay.Then after reading several paragraph about Lee Oswald driving Judyth Vary Baker around New Orleans (by the way what ever happened to the additional Judyth Vary Baker) in his Uncle’s car and also being a runner (driver) for his Uncle and members of the mob a huge cloud of doubt ongoing to descend over the whole tale. Every book I have read that mentions Lee Oswald and driving states he did not know how to drive and had never gotten a license.
I agree there are a lot of seeming sound facts in the book but I am just not sure now about how they are place together. Also, it seems a lot of the ex- “Terrible Guys” now have excuses for their actions.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Appealing reading………judge the leader knows his theme writing about it in a clear manner…Don’t judge in my lifetime this mystery will ever be solved. Jim Garrison was one of my heroes..he had the courage to try to go after this people who were involved but we all know how that attempt finished. Power is indeed corrupting. The book is indeed worth the time.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Mr. Haslam makes some appealing new points and makes a fascinating picture of New Orleans at the time leading up to the Kennedy Assassination. It is by far the best investigation, ever, into the life, times and psyche of the inscrutable David Ferrie. In fact, after reading parts of this book, you will have reasonably a thorough understanding of Mr. Ferrie’s lifestyle and his tragic flaws. You will also have an insight into the bizarre New Orleans underworld in which he operated.
His investigation into the polio vaccine tragedy is well worth the read but has already been developed by previous authors.
Rather than being content with the excellent investigation and sleuthing to make this fascinating zeitgeist, Mr Haslam takes an odd turn and goes of on a bizarre tangent about a woman who claims she was Lee Oswald’s girlfriend, a reasonably unbelievable tale that sours all the excellent work that preceded it.
Read the first half and be done with it.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5