The Lone Star Speaks

Untold Texas Stories About the JFK Assassination

De: K.W. Zachry, Sara Peterson

Narrado por: Brenda G. Brown

Duración: 20 h y 53 m

Resumen del Editor

They might be the type of people who conduct interviews in the shadows of a hotel somewhere. Voices electronically altered. What they know could have changed the course of American history. Though their lives were touched by the tragedy of November 22, 1963, a great many factors, fear among them, kept them silent.

Until now.

Unlike any other book on the subject, 200 people, from insiders to witnesses to players, have finally stepped out of the shadows to testify freely in The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories About the JFK Assassination. This comprehensive, heavily illustrated volume by Sara Peterson and K.W. Zachry takes us deeper into the mystery and down new investigative roads to offer raw and original data that our misled public has never seen. Or heard. Until now.

Sweeping in scope down to the last detail, the book follows Peterson and Zachry into those hotel rooms, into the homes, and into the lives of intimate friends of both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, friends of Kennedy’s many mistresses, Mafia associates, a Warren Commission member, CIA staff, a Bay of Pigs lieutenant, both Presidents’ “invisible” staffers, doctors, hospital employees, Texas’ assistant Attorney General, and campaign attorneys.

And a parade of police officers, military intelligence, friends of Oswald and Jack Ruby, investigators, journalists, and other people from various places who somehow predicted Kennedy’s assassination or were witnesses to the circus atmosphere before and after. And the dark, silent chorus of secrets.

Revelations populate every chapter of The Lone Star Speaks. The voices included feel they still have something to hide but say the truth is more important.

©2020 K.W. Zachry and Sara Peterson (P)2020 Bancroft Press

Inept reading, reduces the quality of a good book.

The material is timely and seems good, although some information is new and thus difficult to verify by comparison to other sources

However, the reader mispronounces or muddles so many things it’s difficult to listen to. An Audio book must be edited, same as anything in print. And if the Audio suffers, the item ought to be corrected before it reaches the market.

Narration Errors Are Countless!

Excellent book, dragged down by the audio narration. Why weren't all these sore-thumb errors addressed before this audiobook was released?

The narrator has a very listenable voice, but the rampant mispronunciations, the robotic, one-line-at-a-time reading, topped by poor editing was disconcerting. I soldiered on anyway, hoping it would improve, but it got ever worse.
After 2/3 of the book, I found the mistakes got funnier as I listened along, eventually I found it kind of endearing.

Nothing against the book, or Brenda G. Brown, but did anyone listen to this before it was released? Give the narrator a chance for some do-overs?

valuable information well worth listening to

I've read over 20 books on the Kennedy assassination in the past 2 years. This is one of the best. Not only does it corroborates many of the other accounts from key witnesses, but it has taken the considerable effort to interview some of the very old witnesses still available more than 50 years later.
Unfortunately there are over 30 mispronunciations of words and people associated with the assassination.
Melvin Belli is Belly,(3) indignant is in-dij-nant (4) and numerous unnecessary others .

.The narrator has a great voice but unfortunately no one oversaw her performance and the mispronunciations are annoying and disconcerting for such a good book.

Brenda Brown

Brenda is in WAY over her head. She obviously knows nothing about the material and mispronounces everyone’s names. It really ruins what is some pretty good basic research. Allen DULLS... please! Was she raised in a tree?

Another misleading anti Kennedy book..

I've listened and read tons of material in the Kennedy ass assination. This book is full of misleading lyet misleading lies that falls into the category of the 2nd Kennedy ass assination idea. That idea is that after Kennedy was killed the 2nd ass assination was to destroy his reputation and not talk about his achievements and the reason he was killed being that he was going to in the cold war .

Multiple mispronounced names in this book

The narrator of this book made multiple mispronunciation of the names of well known people.

Peter Sallinger
Abe Fortahz
Allen Dulls
George DiMorganskyld
Mary Pichett Meyer
George McGann (with a G) and George McCann (with a C). George McClain. She alternates from sentence to sentence.

She actually has the wrong name of the police officer allegedly killed by Oswald. She calls him Tibbett and Tibbets. She alternates from sentence to sentence. She should know that it is officer JD Tippit, with a P, not a B. Small difference, but it show how sloppy this narration is.

Jack Ruby ran the “Car-OWE-sl club. Seriously? That’s how she pronounces Carousel?

Anyone with even a minor understanding of these events knows the proper way to pronounce these names. Did the authors approve of this performance? If so, I am doubting the validity of their conclusions.

The narrator mispronounces many words and the phrasing is awkward, as if she was reading the words for the first time. I suspect that this is a computer voice and not a real person.

Penitentiarary
Fragment of his imagination
Confidentuality Agreement
Nuclear Test Band

The atrocious narration calls into doubt the validity of the authors conclusions.