Reviews for Mechanical Vibration : Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control

The average rating for Mechanical Vibration : Analysis, Uncertainties, and Control based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-27 00:00:00 James Fogg Dr John Newman wrote this book, going on for twenty years ago, (published in 1995). An Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, at the time of writing this book Newman had spent twenty years as a military intelligence officer. As a result of the documents released by the JFK Records Act of 1992, the learned professor waded in to untangle the web of intelligence files that trace the bizarre doings of Lee Harvey Oswald. The result is 'Oswald and the CIA', a vast and deep volume, that does not make for easy reading or can be recommended to the faint-hearted. The author has clearly been meticulous with his research and is surely not responsible for the cryptonyms and acronyms that pepper the text. The reader must be vigilant to follow the spaghetti from F.B.I. to State to O.N.I. to O.S.I. and into the vast caverns of C.I.A., into SR/6 (Soviet Realities branch of Soviet Russia Division) or SR10 (Legal Travellers branch of the Soviet Russia Division) perhaps for the attention of SAC/WFO (Special Agent in Charge of the Washington field office) or CI/SIG (Counterintelligence Special Investigations Group). Also there are the GOLIATH operational cryptonyms such as AMSPELL for the Cuban Student Directorate (D.R.E.) not to be confused with AMBUD which dealt with the Cuban Revolutionary Council (C.R.C.) which all became entangled with the F.P.C.C. caper. Is it any wonder the W.C. and H.S.C.A. gave it up. Three cheers for the A.R.R.B. With text, documents, notes and index there are over six hundred pages here. Not a biography of Oswald, but just what documents were written up on the subject by the U.S. government agencies. For instance there is no file that mentions Oswald's 'suicide' attempt in Moscow or the 'tourist' liason in Minsk, or Clinton revelations. However, the picture of Oswald is the one produced by these files, and not the author. He does write "the foregoing is only a first look at the internal record of Oswald since the government began releasing files in accordance with the JFK Assassination Records Act. Of the many riddles we have attempted to solve in this book, the Dealey Plaza puzzle is not among them. The author lacks the requisite skills in ballistics, forensic pathology, photo and imagery interpretation, and criminal psychology, to name but a few." Come on Dr.John, that's never stopped me! Yet Newman can also write, "had the CIA shared all it knew about Oswald in Mexico City with the F.B.I., John Kennedy might be alive today."

Review # 2 was written on 2018-09-25 00:00:00 Noah Schlichting This book is not about proving whether or not Lee Oswald murdered the president. This book is about proving that Lee Oswald was a secret agent for the CIA during his time in Russia and also at the time Kennedy was murdered. It does not accuse or exonerate Lee Oswald of the crime. It simply looks at the evidence that shows he was a contract agent for the CIA. Nothing more. I respect this book because of its dedication to its thesis topic. A must read to understand what happened leading up to the days, months and years before President Kennedy's tragic death.