Philosopher-turned-detective Josiah Thompson tells how his curiosity about the danger and riddle-solving that surrounds detective work led to a career as a private eye in San Francisco and includes details of detective work and philosophical musing on his

Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye

Biographies & Memoirs

Thompson, Josiah

Regional U.S.

Little. Brown and Company

An autobiography of a man who gave up a sinecured professorship of philosophy to become a private investigator in San Francisco. Trained by a man who is both a master detective and an expert on Dashiell Hammett, he comes to see his new trade as an obscure art form.

Gumshoe: Reflections of a Private Eye

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pan/Macmillan

Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination by Josiah Thompson.

Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination

True Crime

Bernard Geis Associates

A very well written biography that is a little sad. Kierkegaard was a "ghostly" figure that, while full of brilliant thought, could never manage to interface with life. My views on some of his wirings were affected by this work, and I am curious to go back and read them with the knowledge that Kierkegaard plays intricate thought experiments within the pages of his pseudonymous works. This book reads like a novel, is full of many interesting anecdotes (although many of them sad), and a good overview of SK's philosophical works.

Kierkegaard

Alfred.A. Knopf

Philosopher-turned-detective Josiah Thompson tells how his curiosity about the danger and riddle-solving that surrounds detective work led to a career as a private eye in San Francisco and includes details of detective work and philosophical musing on his life

Fawcett

Religion & Spirituality

Gollancz

In this long-awaited follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1967 classic, Six Seconds in Dallas, Josiah Thompson reveals major new forensic discoveries since the year 2000 that overturn previously accepted "facts" about the Kennedy assassination. Together they provide what no previous book on the assassination has done--incontrovertible proof that JFK was killed in a crossfire. Last Second in Dallas is not a conspiracy book. No theory of who did it is offered or discussed. Among the discoveries: The test showing that all recovered bullet fragments came from Oswald's rifle was mistaken. Several fragments could have come from bullets of any manufacturer and any caliber. The sudden two-inch forward movement of the president's head in the Zapruder film just before his head explodes is revealed to be an optical illusion caused by the movement of Zapruder's camera. This leaves without further challenge clear evidence that this shot came from a specific location to the right front of the limousine. Detailed analysis of film frames matched by the newly validated acoustic evidence show a second shot struck the president's head from behind less than a second later. Result: two killing shots to the head from opposite directions in the final second of the shooting--hence the book's title. At once a historical detective story and a deeply personal narrative by a major figure in the field, Last Second in Dallas captures the drama and sweep of events, detailing government missteps and political bias as well as the junk science, hubris, and controversy that have dogged the investigation from the beginning. Into this account Thompson weaves his own eventful journey, that of a Yale-educated scholar who in 1976 resigned his tenured professorship in philosophy to become a private investigator in San Francisco, developing a national reputation. Profusely illustrated, Last Second in Dallas features dozens of archive photographs, including Zapruder film frames reproduced at the highest clarity ever published.

Last Second in Dallas

Historical

University Press of Kansas

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Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye

Gumshoe: Reflections of a Private Eye

Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-Study of the Kennedy Assassination

Kierkegaard

Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye

Kierkegaard

Last Second in Dallas