Jim Marrs

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Jim Marrs (born December 5, 1943 in Fort Worth , Texas , † August 2, 2017 ) was an American author of conspiracy theory books.

life and work

Marrs finished a 1966 journalism -Studies at the University of North Texas with a Bachelor -Examen and then worked for several Texas newspapers. He has been a freelance writer since 1980.

His book Crossfire was one of the sources for Oliver Stone's film JFK - Tatort Dallas , which acquired the rights to it. Here Marrs argues that behind the assassination attempt on John F. Kennedy was not the lone perpetrator Lee Harvey Oswald , but a huge conspiracy in which, among others, the FBI , the CIA , Cubans in exile , the armed forces of the United States , Lyndon B. Johnson , Texas oil industrialists and the Mafia were involved. As an argument, Marrs lists 103 deaths of people who were in one way or another connected to the attack. The advocate of the single perpetrator theory, Gerald Posner, contrasts this with the number of more than 10,000 people who were affected by the Warren Commission or other investigative committees into the Kennedy murder and who survived. The American political scientist John McAdams criticizes the fact that Marrs is arguing here in a circular argument: the death list should prove that there was a conspiracy, but the criterion for getting on this list is participation in this very conspiracy, whose existence it is should prove. The British literary scholar Peter Knight describes Marrs' book in his discourse history on the Kennedy assassination attempt as "a popular science, sensation-seeking surprise bag of conspiracy research".

Marrs also published books on ufology and pre-astronautics , the "new world order" and conspiracy theories on September 11, 2001 . In his work Rule by Secrecy from 2000 he took the view that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion , a basic text of global anti-Semitism , although they are a historical falsification of the tsarist secret service , nevertheless reveal a "deeper conspiracy", namely that of the Illuminati and high degree freemasonry . The last secret behind the alleged world domination of these secret societies lies in the fact that extraterrestrials participated in the creation of mankind.

Marrs was a member of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth . In the German-speaking world, translations of his books are distributed by Kopp-Verlag . Jim Marrs died of a heart attack on August 2, 2017, at the age of 73 .

German-language publications

  • Secret rulers. How hidden forces determine the fate of humanity . Kopp, Rottenburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-938516-41-6
  • The rise of the fourth empire. Secret societies take power in the US . Kopp, Rottenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-938516-98-0
  • The trillion dollar conspiracy. On the way to the New World Order . Kopp, Rottenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-942016-65-0
  • The secret history of mankind. How beings from alien stars determine our fate. Kopp, Rottenburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86445-263-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jim Marrs: Crossfire. The Plot That Killed Kennedy . Carroll & Graf, New York 1989, ISBN 0-881-84648-1 .
  2. ^ Philip L. Simpson: Stone, Oliver . In: Peter Knight (Ed.): Conspiracy Theories in American History. To Encyclopedia . ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, Denver and London 2003, Vol. 2, p. 676.
  3. ↑ James D. Perry: Kennedy, John F. Assassination of . In: Peter Knight (Ed.): Conspiracy Theories in American History. To Encyclopedia . ABC Clio, Santa Barbara, Denver and London 2003, Vol. 1, p. 396.
  4. ^ Gerald Posner: Case Closed. Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK , Random House, New York 1993, p. 483 ff.
  5. ^ John McAdams: JFK Assassination Logic. How to think about claims of conspiracy. Potomac Books, Lincoln 2011, p. 102.
  6. ^ "A popular and sensational grab-bag of conspiracy research": Peter Knight, The Kennedy Assassination , Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2007, SS 93.
  7. ↑ Jim Marrs: Alien Agenda. Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us . Harper Perennial, London 2000 ISBN 0-060-95536-8 ; the same: Our Occulted History. Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? William Morrow, New York 2013, ISBN 0-062-13031-5 .
  8. ↑ Jim Marrs: The Trillion Dollar Conspiracy. On the way to the New World Order . Kopp, Rottenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-942016-65-0
  9. ↑ Jim Marrs: Inside Job. Unmasking the 9/11 Conspiracies . Origin Press, 2004 ISBN 1-579-83013-7 . Jim Marrs and Barbra Honegger: The Terror Conspiracy. Deception, 9/11 and the Loss of Liberty . Disinformation Books, 2006 ISBN 1-932-85743-5 ; Jim Marrs: The Terror Conspiracy Revisited. What Really Happened on 9/11 and Why We're Still Paying the Price Disinformation Books 2011, ISBN 1-934-70863-1 .
  10. ↑ Michael Barkun : A Culture of Conspiracy. Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America . University of California Press, Berkeley 2013, p. 147.
  11. ↑ Ingbert Jüdt: Aliens in the cultural memory? The projective reconstruction of the past in the discourse of pre-astronautics . In: Michael Schetsche , Martin Engelbrecht (Ed.): From humans and extraterrestrials. Transterrestrial encounters as reflected in cultural studies . transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8394-0855-1 , p. 91 (accessed via De Gruyter Online).
  12. ↑ Stephen E. Atkins (Ed.): The 9/11 Encyclopedia , ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, Denver and London 2011, p. 125
  13. ↑ Racey Burden: Jim Marrs, author and conspiracy theorist, dies . Wise County Messenger, online edition August 2, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Marrs, Jim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American non-fiction author and conspiracy theorist
DATE OF BIRTH December 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Fort Worth , Texas , United States
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2017