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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
Based on Oliver Stone's documentary, JFK Revisited, read the transcripts and interviews that will change the way you think about the John F. Kennedy assassination.
JFK Through the Looking Glass contains the two working original screenplays for Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited; both the two-hour version, Through the Looking Glass, and the four-hour version, Destiny Betrayed. These films are the first documentaries to feature the work of the Assassination Records Review Board.
The Assassination Records Review Board worked from 1994–98 releasing records that the government has classified in whole or in part on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They ended up releasing about two million pages or approximately sixty thousand documents. They also pursued an investigation into the autopsy and medical evidence in the JFK case. Although their releases and discoveries were quite important to the evidentiary record, they received very little exposure in the mainstream media. They also released documents relating to Kennedy’s foreign policy in both Cuba and Vietnam. In the former case, these were plans by the Pentagon to create a pretext to invade Cuba. In the latter, documents proved Kennedy was implementing a withdrawal plan from Vietnam.
This book is unprecedented. It contains a compendium of information originating from the widest range of authorities on the JFK case ever assembled. This includes luminaries from several pathology, surgery, ballistics, criminal investigation, neurology, history, and journalism. Never before have people like forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, criminalist Henry Lee, Professor James Galbraith, author David Talbot, journalist Jefferson Morley, intelligence analyst John Newman, Professor Robert Rakove, and more appeared in one book; never have this many illustrious authorities been interviewed about their views on the policies and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The book also includes important witness interviews with Dr. Donald Miller about his colleague Malcolm Perry, Jim Gochenaur of the Church Committee, and Edwin McGehee of both the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the Jim Garrison investigation.
The combination of this newly released information plus expert interviews changed the database and calculus of the JFK case. The scripts are included in this book, which were the backbone for Oliver Stone's films. It also includes important excerpts from the many interviews which did not make it into the final cuts of the films. JFK Revisited will challenge everything you thought you know about the JFK assassination.
JFK Through the Looking Glass contains the two working original screenplays for Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited; both the two-hour version, Through the Looking Glass, and the four-hour version, Destiny Betrayed. These films are the first documentaries to feature the work of the Assassination Records Review Board.
The Assassination Records Review Board worked from 1994–98 releasing records that the government has classified in whole or in part on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. They ended up releasing about two million pages or approximately sixty thousand documents. They also pursued an investigation into the autopsy and medical evidence in the JFK case. Although their releases and discoveries were quite important to the evidentiary record, they received very little exposure in the mainstream media. They also released documents relating to Kennedy’s foreign policy in both Cuba and Vietnam. In the former case, these were plans by the Pentagon to create a pretext to invade Cuba. In the latter, documents proved Kennedy was implementing a withdrawal plan from Vietnam.
This book is unprecedented. It contains a compendium of information originating from the widest range of authorities on the JFK case ever assembled. This includes luminaries from several pathology, surgery, ballistics, criminal investigation, neurology, history, and journalism. Never before have people like forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht, criminalist Henry Lee, Professor James Galbraith, author David Talbot, journalist Jefferson Morley, intelligence analyst John Newman, Professor Robert Rakove, and more appeared in one book; never have this many illustrious authorities been interviewed about their views on the policies and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The book also includes important witness interviews with Dr. Donald Miller about his colleague Malcolm Perry, Jim Gochenaur of the Church Committee, and Edwin McGehee of both the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the Jim Garrison investigation.
The combination of this newly released information plus expert interviews changed the database and calculus of the JFK case. The scripts are included in this book, which were the backbone for Oliver Stone's films. It also includes important excerpts from the many interviews which did not make it into the final cuts of the films. JFK Revisited will challenge everything you thought you know about the JFK assassination.
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About the author
James DiEugenio
12 books27 followersJames DiEugenio is one of the foremost researchers into the major assassinations of the 1960's. His first book: Destiny Betrayed, was an in depth look at the Garrison investigation. In 1993 he co-founded both Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination (CTKA), and the following year: the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA). Along with Lisa Pease he co-edited COPA's journal: Probe Magazine from 1993-2000, and later assisted in a compilation of the Probe articles which was published as The Assassinations. In response to Vincent Bugliosi's Reclaiming History and associated film Parkland, DiEugenio published Reclaiming Parkland, a critique of Bugliosi's methodology, evidence, and findings in the Kennedy Asassination.
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July 2, 2023
Excellent expose of the cover-up of the JFK assassination. The so-called "Magic Bullet" theory is a load of rubbish.
January 9, 2023
Quite an update from the JFK movie. There are so many holes in the Warren commission and the autopsy and what people saw and did. If this wasn’t a conspiracy then our government is incompetent and it’s not incompetent. Hopefully more of the truth will come out. Needless to say JFK didn’t need to die and Oswald was not the lone shooter. There was other attempts on JFK in 1963 and they know clearly about ones in LA, Chicago and Tampa, even the name of the patsy, most with similar backgrounds as Oswald for each city. Crazy just crazy.
November 20, 2023
the interesting thing DiEugenio found out was how one of the ladies in the CIA was trying to see how Oswald's files were routed and it wasn't in the Soviet Division, but one department in the Office of Security.
So Oswald never had a generic 201 file, which would have been surprising being a defector who worked in radar at the Atsugi U-2 base.
But he was basically routed through the Office of Security, before his defection. Which means they wanted, at the very least to keep his identity secret from others.
James Newman had an interesting book on how his files seemed to go through the CIA Electronics Division and Counterintelligence with Angleton, and some blacked out places.
............
I tend to think he was a Security Agent
and it's likely that David Atlee Phillips and Oswald were trying to infiltrate and foil an assasination plot, and tries to make one less target, when i think they realized there might be multiple sites, like the Dal-Tex building.
Atlee Phillips had a falling out with his brother who never spoke to him again, when he asked him if he was in Dallas that day.
So you might have had David Atlee Phillips trying to stop something.
along with Harry Dean and William Case Nagell doing similar
And you have William King Harvey and E. Howard Hunt there for darker reasons, and operating 'on their own'
[and possibilities higher up with Angelton and Dulles having questionable agendas, and oilman HL Hunt with General Charles Willoughby on the far-far right with John Rousselot of the John Birch Society]
So it's a mysterious bunch of stuff, and it's as mysterious as Charles Ford who worked for Robert Kennedy, who was with cover stories and trying to get information from various Mafia families, and who only reported to RFK and no one else, with his parent agency.
..........
one person i liked a lot Sam Halpern
had a few odd interviews, Seymour Hersh's book
The Dark Side of Camelot
and later stuff, up on youtube
like this fascinating bit of history
[Contrary to what the narrator says, Halpern did not run Operation Mongoose to overthrow Castro. Halpern was an executive assistant to deputy director Richard Helms. Halpern was a trusted deputy, not a chief. Mongoose was overseen by General Edwin Lansdale. The CIA task force that supported Lansdale was headed by William K. Harvey.]
Sam Halpern: You can't say, CIA, liked or disliked something. It's got to be, certain people, certain groups, that might not have. And I'm sure there were people, case officers and Division Chiefs, and other senior officers, who probably didn't like the president and why not? He was doing things that they didn't like, so they didn't like them.
[Narrator: Sam Halpern is put in charge operation Mongoose between the failed landing at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.] [No! Sam was an assistant.]
Sam Halpern: I'm not sure which one was the pusher more than anybody else. We dealt mostly with, with Bobby, rather than with Jack.
Sam Halpern: I could never figure it out what made them so anti Cuba. The only thing I could think of was, their own feelings, their own egotism. He was a problem they couldn't solve and they never ran up a problem, against the problem they couldn't solve they were always on top of everything. And this one they were not. And there was no way they were going to be on top of it. So everybody along the way, including the entire US government, had to help them get over this problem.
Sam Halpern: Did you ever see any pieces of CIA? I have never seen any pieces of CIA anywhere. CIA has never been smashed to pieces by anybody.
[Narrator: The day after John Kennedy was killed, his brother Bobby rushes to see new CIA director John McCone with a single question. "Did the CIA kill my brother?"]
[Milton Bearden, CIA Chief of Station (86-89): The question came up after the assassination in November 63 of the President. Uh, and I ,yes Bobby Kennedy asked John McCone, "Is there anything, there?"]
Sam Halpern: The brother's got a right to ask those questions. It's, it's nothing unusual well, why shouldn't he? He should, ask questions. He didn't know. Do you want to be sure? And that's a human question, for one man to ask, "Did you kill my brother?" Why not?
Sam Halpern: Why would it CIA chief, wanna kill a president? President fires him? Then he hasn't got any, then, the guy doesn't have any tools any way to kill a president. Uh, what would be the purpose? To show he didn't like the president? The president knows that by now.
..........
Biography
Samuel Halpern
Samuel Halpern was born in Brooklyn. His father, a tailor, was bankrupted by the Depression. After the Second World War he joined the Central Intelligence Agency.
In the late 1950s Halpern was executive assistant to Desmond FitzGerald, the chief of the Far Eastern Division of the CIA. He also worked as one of FitzGerald's operations officers in Saigon during the early stages of the Vietnam War.
In 1961 Halpern worked with Richard Bissell and Desmond FitzGerald in the various plots to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba. According to Halpern Robert Kennedy put the CIA under a lot of pressure to arrange the assassination of Castro. Halpern later claimed that "Bobby Kennedy was a bad influence on Des (FitzGerald). He reinforced his worst instincts." Thomas Parrott, the secretary of SGA, claimed that FitzGerald had trouble dealing with Kennedy: "He was arrogant, he knew it all, he knew the answer to everything. He sat there, tie down, chewing gum, his feet up on the desk. His threats were transparent. It was, "If you don't do it, I tell my big brother on you."
Halpern was involved in the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He came to the conclusion that Fidel Castro had nothing to do with the plot to kill Kennedy.
In 1975, Frank Church became the chairman of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. This committee investigated alleged abuses of power by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Intelligence. This eventually resulted in the forming of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Halpern was one of those interviewed by the HSCA. As David Kaiser pointed out in his book, The Road to Dallas (2008): "While witnesses like Richard Bissell, the deputy director for plans, and his deputy and successor, Richard Helms, worked very hard not to provide any information that the Church Committee did not already have, a few others, like William Harvey, Sam Halpern, and E. Howard Hunt, were much more forthcoming. Most importantly for history, Halpern in particular did the committee (and now historians) the service of making it quite clear that the agency had the means and the will to conceal sensitive information forever, if it so chose."
Halpern was interviewed by David Corn for his book Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades (1994) and Evan Thomas for his book The Very Best Men (1995).
Samuel Halpern died in March, 2005.
.............
Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men (1995)
Halpern valued his relationship with FitzGerald as "almost father and son," but it became strained in the winter and spring of 1963. "Des's approach was a little scary," Halpern said. "We had a good base of intelligence in Cuba by 63. It had been our agent who targeted the U-2 to the missiles-we knew what was going on. Des came in, and unfortunately, because of pressure from Bobby, tried to do too much. Des did not want to be thwarted. When he wanted it done, you got it done, or he'd do it himself. With Castro he got frustrated. "Why can't we do this?" he'd demand. He'd glare at people and make you feel uncomfortable and quote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He had contagious enthusiasms, but it was difficult to get him to stop and think, once he got the bit in his teeth." Halpern, like Ted Shackley, was inhibited. "I was just a junior officer, and I didn't have connections in Georgetown," said Halpern. "I didn't know what dinner parties he was going to.
Halpern thought the relationship between Kennedy and FitzGerald was unfortunate. "I think Bobby Kennedy was a bad influence on Des," he said. "He reinforced his worst instincts." Halpern said he began to "dread coming in to work in the morning," especially Monday mornings after FitzGerald had had all weekend to "run into" Kennedy and think up his own schemes "all these hare-brained ideas," as Halpern described a series of plots that would seem like black comedy when they surfaced a decade later during the Church Committee hearings.
.............
David Kaiser, The Road to Dallas (2008)
The IG report came to the attention of President Gerald Ford in early 1975 after a famous leak of widespread CIA wrongdoing to Seymour Hersh of the New York Times in the previous December. The 1967 document then became the basis for the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence Activities' report, Alleged Assassination Attempts against Foreigns Lenders, published later that year. But neither the Church Committee report (named after the committee chairman, Senator Frank Church) nor the IG report itself, which was finally released in 1993, told anywhere near the whole story about the U.S. governments attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Written by lawyers, the Church Committee report focused on very specific questions concerning high-level authorization of, and responsibility for, the assassination plots. The secret testimony on which it was based is now fully available in the JFK collection at the National Archives, and it contains much key information not included in the report. It also documents the ethos of the CIA at the height of the Cold War and gives a unique glimpse into the agency's inner workings. While witnesses like Richard Bissell, the deputy director for plans, and his deputy and successor, Richard Helms, worked very hard not to provide any information that the Church Committee did not already have, a few others, like William Harvey, Sam Halpern, and E. Howard Hunt, were much more forthcoming. Most importantly for history, Halpern in particular did the committee (and now historians) the service of making it quite clear that the agency had the means and the will to conceal sensitive information forever, if it so chose.
.............
David Corn, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades (1994)
In June, the Rockefeller Commission released its report. It was full of soiled linen. The President's panel revealed that the CIA had tested LSD on unsuspecting subjects, spied on American dissidents, physically abused a defector, burgled and bugged without court orders, intercepted mail illegally, and engaged in "plainly unlawful" conduct.
On Capitol Hill, the Church Committee was conducting private audiences with Richard Helms, John McCone, Richard Bissell, William Harvey, and lesser-known Agency colleagues. (The House committee inquiry stalled, amid bickering over its leadership.) Colby was cooperating with the congressional inquiries and handing over the Agency's darkest secrets. Shackley, who two years ago had blocked the inquiries of the Church subcommittee, was one of many Agency people who watched with disbelief as Colby graciously passed secrets - some related to Shackley's own activities-to the prying headline - hogs of Congress. "But once the decisions were made," Shackley claimed, "the organization supported him."
That is the myth - the dedicated professionals saluting and doing the Director's bidding, even when it pained them. Sam Halpern, a former senior DDO officer called out of retirement to deal with the investigators, found that some offices in Langley, conveniently, could not locate relevant materials. It was obvious to him that documents were being lost as they were being requested.
.............
So Oswald never had a generic 201 file, which would have been surprising being a defector who worked in radar at the Atsugi U-2 base.
But he was basically routed through the Office of Security, before his defection. Which means they wanted, at the very least to keep his identity secret from others.
James Newman had an interesting book on how his files seemed to go through the CIA Electronics Division and Counterintelligence with Angleton, and some blacked out places.
............
I tend to think he was a Security Agent
and it's likely that David Atlee Phillips and Oswald were trying to infiltrate and foil an assasination plot, and tries to make one less target, when i think they realized there might be multiple sites, like the Dal-Tex building.
Atlee Phillips had a falling out with his brother who never spoke to him again, when he asked him if he was in Dallas that day.
So you might have had David Atlee Phillips trying to stop something.
along with Harry Dean and William Case Nagell doing similar
And you have William King Harvey and E. Howard Hunt there for darker reasons, and operating 'on their own'
[and possibilities higher up with Angelton and Dulles having questionable agendas, and oilman HL Hunt with General Charles Willoughby on the far-far right with John Rousselot of the John Birch Society]
So it's a mysterious bunch of stuff, and it's as mysterious as Charles Ford who worked for Robert Kennedy, who was with cover stories and trying to get information from various Mafia families, and who only reported to RFK and no one else, with his parent agency.
..........
one person i liked a lot Sam Halpern
had a few odd interviews, Seymour Hersh's book
The Dark Side of Camelot
and later stuff, up on youtube
like this fascinating bit of history
[Contrary to what the narrator says, Halpern did not run Operation Mongoose to overthrow Castro. Halpern was an executive assistant to deputy director Richard Helms. Halpern was a trusted deputy, not a chief. Mongoose was overseen by General Edwin Lansdale. The CIA task force that supported Lansdale was headed by William K. Harvey.]
Sam Halpern: You can't say, CIA, liked or disliked something. It's got to be, certain people, certain groups, that might not have. And I'm sure there were people, case officers and Division Chiefs, and other senior officers, who probably didn't like the president and why not? He was doing things that they didn't like, so they didn't like them.
[Narrator: Sam Halpern is put in charge operation Mongoose between the failed landing at the Bay of Pigs in 1961.] [No! Sam was an assistant.]
Sam Halpern: I'm not sure which one was the pusher more than anybody else. We dealt mostly with, with Bobby, rather than with Jack.
Sam Halpern: I could never figure it out what made them so anti Cuba. The only thing I could think of was, their own feelings, their own egotism. He was a problem they couldn't solve and they never ran up a problem, against the problem they couldn't solve they were always on top of everything. And this one they were not. And there was no way they were going to be on top of it. So everybody along the way, including the entire US government, had to help them get over this problem.
Sam Halpern: Did you ever see any pieces of CIA? I have never seen any pieces of CIA anywhere. CIA has never been smashed to pieces by anybody.
[Narrator: The day after John Kennedy was killed, his brother Bobby rushes to see new CIA director John McCone with a single question. "Did the CIA kill my brother?"]
[Milton Bearden, CIA Chief of Station (86-89): The question came up after the assassination in November 63 of the President. Uh, and I ,yes Bobby Kennedy asked John McCone, "Is there anything, there?"]
Sam Halpern: The brother's got a right to ask those questions. It's, it's nothing unusual well, why shouldn't he? He should, ask questions. He didn't know. Do you want to be sure? And that's a human question, for one man to ask, "Did you kill my brother?" Why not?
Sam Halpern: Why would it CIA chief, wanna kill a president? President fires him? Then he hasn't got any, then, the guy doesn't have any tools any way to kill a president. Uh, what would be the purpose? To show he didn't like the president? The president knows that by now.
..........
Biography
Samuel Halpern
Samuel Halpern was born in Brooklyn. His father, a tailor, was bankrupted by the Depression. After the Second World War he joined the Central Intelligence Agency.
In the late 1950s Halpern was executive assistant to Desmond FitzGerald, the chief of the Far Eastern Division of the CIA. He also worked as one of FitzGerald's operations officers in Saigon during the early stages of the Vietnam War.
In 1961 Halpern worked with Richard Bissell and Desmond FitzGerald in the various plots to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba. According to Halpern Robert Kennedy put the CIA under a lot of pressure to arrange the assassination of Castro. Halpern later claimed that "Bobby Kennedy was a bad influence on Des (FitzGerald). He reinforced his worst instincts." Thomas Parrott, the secretary of SGA, claimed that FitzGerald had trouble dealing with Kennedy: "He was arrogant, he knew it all, he knew the answer to everything. He sat there, tie down, chewing gum, his feet up on the desk. His threats were transparent. It was, "If you don't do it, I tell my big brother on you."
Halpern was involved in the investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He came to the conclusion that Fidel Castro had nothing to do with the plot to kill Kennedy.
In 1975, Frank Church became the chairman of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. This committee investigated alleged abuses of power by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Intelligence. This eventually resulted in the forming of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Halpern was one of those interviewed by the HSCA. As David Kaiser pointed out in his book, The Road to Dallas (2008): "While witnesses like Richard Bissell, the deputy director for plans, and his deputy and successor, Richard Helms, worked very hard not to provide any information that the Church Committee did not already have, a few others, like William Harvey, Sam Halpern, and E. Howard Hunt, were much more forthcoming. Most importantly for history, Halpern in particular did the committee (and now historians) the service of making it quite clear that the agency had the means and the will to conceal sensitive information forever, if it so chose."
Halpern was interviewed by David Corn for his book Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades (1994) and Evan Thomas for his book The Very Best Men (1995).
Samuel Halpern died in March, 2005.
.............
Evan Thomas, The Very Best Men (1995)
Halpern valued his relationship with FitzGerald as "almost father and son," but it became strained in the winter and spring of 1963. "Des's approach was a little scary," Halpern said. "We had a good base of intelligence in Cuba by 63. It had been our agent who targeted the U-2 to the missiles-we knew what was going on. Des came in, and unfortunately, because of pressure from Bobby, tried to do too much. Des did not want to be thwarted. When he wanted it done, you got it done, or he'd do it himself. With Castro he got frustrated. "Why can't we do this?" he'd demand. He'd glare at people and make you feel uncomfortable and quote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He had contagious enthusiasms, but it was difficult to get him to stop and think, once he got the bit in his teeth." Halpern, like Ted Shackley, was inhibited. "I was just a junior officer, and I didn't have connections in Georgetown," said Halpern. "I didn't know what dinner parties he was going to.
Halpern thought the relationship between Kennedy and FitzGerald was unfortunate. "I think Bobby Kennedy was a bad influence on Des," he said. "He reinforced his worst instincts." Halpern said he began to "dread coming in to work in the morning," especially Monday mornings after FitzGerald had had all weekend to "run into" Kennedy and think up his own schemes "all these hare-brained ideas," as Halpern described a series of plots that would seem like black comedy when they surfaced a decade later during the Church Committee hearings.
.............
David Kaiser, The Road to Dallas (2008)
The IG report came to the attention of President Gerald Ford in early 1975 after a famous leak of widespread CIA wrongdoing to Seymour Hersh of the New York Times in the previous December. The 1967 document then became the basis for the Senate Select Committee of Intelligence Activities' report, Alleged Assassination Attempts against Foreigns Lenders, published later that year. But neither the Church Committee report (named after the committee chairman, Senator Frank Church) nor the IG report itself, which was finally released in 1993, told anywhere near the whole story about the U.S. governments attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.
Written by lawyers, the Church Committee report focused on very specific questions concerning high-level authorization of, and responsibility for, the assassination plots. The secret testimony on which it was based is now fully available in the JFK collection at the National Archives, and it contains much key information not included in the report. It also documents the ethos of the CIA at the height of the Cold War and gives a unique glimpse into the agency's inner workings. While witnesses like Richard Bissell, the deputy director for plans, and his deputy and successor, Richard Helms, worked very hard not to provide any information that the Church Committee did not already have, a few others, like William Harvey, Sam Halpern, and E. Howard Hunt, were much more forthcoming. Most importantly for history, Halpern in particular did the committee (and now historians) the service of making it quite clear that the agency had the means and the will to conceal sensitive information forever, if it so chose.
.............
David Corn, Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades (1994)
In June, the Rockefeller Commission released its report. It was full of soiled linen. The President's panel revealed that the CIA had tested LSD on unsuspecting subjects, spied on American dissidents, physically abused a defector, burgled and bugged without court orders, intercepted mail illegally, and engaged in "plainly unlawful" conduct.
On Capitol Hill, the Church Committee was conducting private audiences with Richard Helms, John McCone, Richard Bissell, William Harvey, and lesser-known Agency colleagues. (The House committee inquiry stalled, amid bickering over its leadership.) Colby was cooperating with the congressional inquiries and handing over the Agency's darkest secrets. Shackley, who two years ago had blocked the inquiries of the Church subcommittee, was one of many Agency people who watched with disbelief as Colby graciously passed secrets - some related to Shackley's own activities-to the prying headline - hogs of Congress. "But once the decisions were made," Shackley claimed, "the organization supported him."
That is the myth - the dedicated professionals saluting and doing the Director's bidding, even when it pained them. Sam Halpern, a former senior DDO officer called out of retirement to deal with the investigators, found that some offices in Langley, conveniently, could not locate relevant materials. It was obvious to him that documents were being lost as they were being requested.
.............
September 24, 2022
Having read what feels like countless JFK books in my time, I had to revisit Oliver Stone and his update to JFK the movie. Mr. Stone, love him or hate him, did a fine job in unearthing the new material available since 2000. He certainly is passionate on the subject. The book is basically the script to his 2 hour and 4 hour update in new and old theories conducted with in-depth interviews from JFK experts. I don't call them "conspiracy" because they are rooted in the discovery of new documents referenced throughout the book. The interviews are fascinating to read and the footnotes are even more compelling. So, if you are a diehard JFK scholar I think you will enjoy the read as I had. As a 50/50 believer in Oswald as the lone shooter, this book certainly moved the needle to 75/25 that Oswald was not alone on Nov. 22, 1963. Will watch the movie next.
January 18, 2024
Incredibly researched and thorough look at a president who had intended to change the course of our country’s foreign policy but who was assassinated in a highly organized action. The book also focused on the now-unbelievabe cover up of the Warren Commission.
May 9, 2024
A must-read for every true American. We need to know what we're dealing with.
July 10, 2024
It had some interesting information and findings but was very angry toward one particular author. Very dry, boring reading.
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