Biting the Elephant

Somewhere Along The Course Of My Background Reading For The Style And Format Of This Book I Came Across An Expression That Caught My Fancy As I Considered The Complexity Of Working With The Writings Of Authors Gerald Posner Arlen Specter Kenneth Rahn Max Holland And Vincent Bugliosi. And Somewhere Else Along That Forgotten Way I Came Across An Expression I Remember As Being An African Proverb: We Don'T Eat The Elephant In One Big Bite; We Eat The Elephant Bite By Bite! Indeed I Don'T Know Whether I Read That Somewhere Or Whether I Dreamed About Something Harmlessly Apocryphal As A Chant Of The Ants. What I Do Know Is That Several Times Over Two Years Or So My Mind Has Wandered In Unsuccessful Searches For Format And Title Of A Book Based Upon The Writings Of Those Prominent Writers Exploring The Jfk Assassination. Personally Committed To Writing Targeted For Future Historians I Slowly Came To Realize My Inability To Write A Single Volume Qualitative Analysis Of The Major Work Of Those Prominent Contributors To The Literature Of The John F. Kennedy Assassination. So My First Major Decision Was One Of Establishing A Scope For This Book. In The Happening I Chose For Major Attention The Work Of Vincent Bugliosi Primarily Because He Himself Had Given Considerable Attention To Key Ideas Developed By Posner Specter Rahn And Holland. Inasmuch As I Had Published In 2003 A Book About Arlen Specter'S Single-Bullet Theory He Was A Logical Choice For Me To Sidestep In This Writing. As For Max Holland I Had Long Awaited The Appearance Of His Book For Which He Had Been Awarded A Prestigious Prize As A Work In Progress In 2001. With Considerable Reluctance I Abandoned His Work From Consideration In This Venture Of Mine.