Counterplot

by Edward Jay Epstein

The author, a student of the various conspiracies of John F. Kennedy's assassination, was intrigued when the investigation by New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, was made public. Now, in 1969, the author believes that Garrison's investigation was flawed. The reasons for his allegations are the basis for this book.
Preface
Prologue: Oswald in New Orleans
The First Conspiracy
The Second Conspiracy
Public Opinion
Notes
Index

Genres: History

192 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Edward Jay Epstein (born 1935) was an American investigative journalist and a former political science professor at Harvard, UCLA, and MIT. While a graduate student at Cornell University in 1966, he published the book Inquest, an influential critique of the Warren Commission probe into the John F. Kennedy assassination. Epstein wrote two other books about the Kennedy assassination, eventually collected in The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend (1992). His books Legend (1978) and Deception (1989) drew on interviews with retired CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton, and his 1982 book The Rise and Fall of Diamonds was an expose of the diamond industry and its economic impact in southern Africa.

Reviews

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book as a counterpoint to Oliver Stone's JFK movie as it is a detailed critique of the film's protagonist, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison. While many of Epstein's points are well-taken, this book is significantly superseded by former Director of Central Intelligence's, Richard Helms', 1979 sworn testimony that in fact Clay Shaw, as Garrison failed to prove in court years before, had worked for the Agency.

[Tom Mueller · Rating 4 out of 5]

"A substantial portion of the contents of this book appeared originally in the New Yorker."/ Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 167-177). Refutes Garrison Inquest.