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| The Roswell Legacy | 
 enlarge | Author: Jesse Marcel; Jr.
Creator: Ron Kaye / Connie L. Schmidt
Publisher: BigSky Press
Category: Book
Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 517604
Media: Paperback
Edition: The 60th Anniversary
Pages: 200
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0979591708
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.942
EAN: 9780979591709
ASIN: 0979591708
Publication Date: July 2, 2007
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Product Description
My focus in this book will be to present the reader with a clearer picture of the man who was - and remains - at the center of the Roswell controversy; my father, Jesse Marcel, Sr.. While I must acknowledge that my own account carries within its own bias, I realize that my duty to my father is to present him as the man he was, as accurately as possible, lest I fall into the same trap as those who have allowed their own biases and agendas to paint a portrait that is not as much the man as what he represents to them and their goals. As such, I feel I am the only living person truly qualified to wield the brush. I hope I serve his memory well.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 Good material but no style November 13, 2008
A powerful book, no doubt.
Despite all the documentation and facts in this book, Roswell remains a big question mark. It appears to me that ufologists are not doing the right thing. So many of them, so many books, so many appearences on TV shows, yet not even one single physical evidence. This is what this well-thought book is suffering from!
NICE INSIGHT November 5, 2008
FIRST OFF LET ME SAY GREAT BOOK. MARCEL JR. SEEMS LIKE A CREDIBLE GUY JUST LIKE HIS FATHER. THIS IS NOT YOU'RE TYPICAL ROSWELL ACCOUNT. YES THE AUTHOR GIVES YOU A ROUND DOWN ON HIS VERSION OF ROSWELL AND WHAT HE EXPERINCED. BUT THE BOOK DEALS MORE ABOUT THE MARCEL FAMILY BEFORE AND AFTER ROSWELL. YOU GET SOME INSIGHT ON WHO THEIR WERE AND ARE. HE TALKS ABOUT THE EFFECTS ROSWELL HAD ON HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND NOW HIS KIDS AS WELL. HE EXPLANS WHAT A MOGUL BALLON IS AND WHY THAT EXPLANATION JUST DOESN'T HOLD UP. HE SHOWS THE GOVERMENT IS FULL OF IT. HE SHOWS THAT THEY ARE INDEED HIDING SOMETHING FROM THE PUBLIC. BUT DID A FLYING SAUCER REALLY CRASH IN NEW MEXICO. WE CAN'T BE SURE. BUT SOMETHING STRANGE WAS FOUND IN THE DESERT, SOMETHING STRANGE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOME OF THE MARCELS. SOMETHING THE AUTHOR WOULD DESCRIBE AS 'UNEARTHLY'.
The Roswell legacy October 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Book was interesting in most places and was repetitive by way of emphasis in some chapters. It needed the other book ("Day after Roswell") to be read first as a background to the story. There still remains the US govt's final view of the subject which essentially remains a mystery in the clouds of "its too long ago to worry about".
Essentially it is the story of the author's father and has some real though incomplete experiences nagging at the author seeking to express his unanimous belief in his fathers experience with the crashed UFO remnants.
 True or Not True? March 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Roswell Legacy was a welcomed publication. It was nice to see a book by Major Marcel's son finally on the market. Though it did deal with family matters and family quite a bit, I found that it dealt with many of the personal problems with family members including the fact that both Major Marcel and his wife as Jesse states in the book - became alcoholics. He speaks also of the effect that the Roswell Incident and its many years of secrecy had on his entire family including his own children. He states that even to this day due to the Roswell Incident there are riffs in his family. My reading about the tragic family situations both with his own family and Major Marcel's touched my heart and I thought, "How sad this has happened to them." I immediately decided I would attempt to reach Jesse by phone and invite him for an interview on my Blog Talk Radio show. I wanted to help him reach out, tell his story, and also assist in vindicating his Father in some way. I was able to contact him and he agreed to do the interview on BlogTalk Radio along with his friend Stanton T. Friedman. I asked him if there was anything in his book he did not want to discuss. His repy was, "I don't think so." However, in the course of the interview, I found this not to be the case. There were several questions mentioned in the book that he chose either not to comment upon or just skirted the question completely. I let all that pass. For a few days after the show, I thought about 'Why did he answer the questions the way he did or not at all?, when his answers did not agree with the way they had been written in the book. I wound up doing a second show on BlogTalk addressing these concerns and reading from The Roswell Legacy the answers that should have been easy for him to give. I finally took both shows totally out of my archive section. If you would like to hear these shows, you can at BTR, Saturday, March 29th, 2008, 5 pm ET - The Charn Parker Show or download them from the archives anytime after the broadcast. I do think this was a good book, however, I question now the validity of what was written.
DEMOLISHES THE "MOGUL BALLOON" THEORY February 9, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Jesse Marcel Jr. has written a touching vindication of his father, Jesse Marcel, the Security Officer the military asked to look over the debris field on Mac Brazel's farm back in June of 1947. The author was an 11 year-old boy living with his parents near the military base at Roswell New Mexico, and he personally saw and touched parts of the debris as his father excitedly told him it was "not of this world."
The basic story is well known, and Jesse Jr does not provide anything beyond the known facts and research that anyone could do. But the book is a valuable contribution to the legacy of Roswell because the author, besides the fact that he was part of it, focuses on the elements that keep people from believing the debris was from a crashed space ship. Starting with what he sees as a denigration of his father. He shows us in great detail that his father, Jesse Marcel, was technologically astute and well-trained in all aspects of military radar and balloons. It is just not possible that he would not have recognized any kind of balloon in use by the military. The government has admitted that its first claim, that the debris was from a weather balloon, along with the infamous picture of Marcel with the "debris," was a falsehood and a cover-up.
But their more recent report on the Rosell incident claims that the debris was from Project Mogul, which was balloons sent high in the atmosphere to "listen" for evidence of Soviet nuclear testing. However, the author thoroughly researched Project Mogul and shows how this simply does not fit the facts. He states with certainty that the Mogul materials were nothing like what he saw in the family kitchen that night in 1947. He had a chance to personally examine some of the Mogul materials, so his opinion here is based on real knowledge. Beyond that, he researched which Mogul balloons were aloft at the time that could have landed on Mac Brazel's farm, and none of them fit. And beyond that, the debris field was much larger than what you'd get from a Mogul balloon, and, since the Mogul materials were ordinary, the military usually didn't even bother to collect downed balloons. So why, in the Roswell incident, did they scrape up every last piece of debris and have it flown, with armed guards, to Wright-Patterson?
The book is somewhat disorganized and unorthodox in its layout and organization, but I found the rather homespun approach an indication of its authenticity as the real thoughts of the author (and his wife too). No spin here, just an honest recounting of memories and what the incident did to the Marcel family. I was saddened to read that his father became more cynical and took up drinking excessively as he grew older, contemplating the years he had to keep quiet and listen to his government put out "facts" he knew to be false. In his later years, he did talk about it somewhat, including telling Linda Marcel (Jesse Jr's wife) that what he saw in 1947 was "not of this earth."
Everyone has their opinion and debunkers will always be with us, but Jesse Marcel Jr has kept faith with his father's belief that both the father and the son held in their hands pieces of something that came from "out there."
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