Gerald Posner
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Gerald Posner is an investigative journalist and author of several books, including Case Closed (1993), exploring the John F. Kennedy assassination, and Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Biography
Posner was educated at the University of California at Berkeley (1975) and Hastings Law School (1978). He worked for the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore until 1980, at which point he went into private practice with a partner.
Writing
In his book Case Closed, Posner presents evidence that both John F. Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and that man's assassin, Jack Ruby, acted alone, without the aid of a conspiracy. Case Closed was nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for History.
In his 2003 book Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Secret Saudi-U.S. Connection, Posner provides an account of the "close" business and personal relationship between the House of Saud and the U.S. government, including discussions of "dirty bomb" technology and financial/political maneuvering surrounding 9/11.
Another 2003 book by Posner, Why America Slept, discusses the conspiracy of the Arab al-Qaeda terrorists who were responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Posner, a strong supporter of Al Gore, wrote a Wall Street Journal editorial on September 25, 2001 reversing his opinion of George W. Bush in light of the September 11 attacks.[1]
Bibliography
- Mengele: The Complete Story (1986)
- Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies - The New Mafia (1988)
- Bio-Assassins (1989)
- Hitler's Children: Sons and Daughters of Leaders of the Third Reich Talk About Their Fathers and Themselves (1991)
- Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1994)
- Citizen Perot: His Life and Times (1996)
- Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998)
- Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11 (2003)
- Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power (Music of the Great Lakes) (2003)
- Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection (2005)
External links
- Official home page
- Wall Street Journal: "I Was Wrong About Bush"
- Slate.com: "Gerald Posner, Weathervane"
- Houston Chronicle: "Writer says allies knew about 9/11 beforehand"
- "The Posner Report"
- Defending Posner, analysis of "The Posner Report" above
- "Posner in New Orleans"
- "The Return of Gerald Posner"