JFK, Oswald and Ruby
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
9781476687766 (ISBN)
In this book, former Warren Commission lawyer Burt Griffin examines anew the Kennedy assassination, its various investigations, its effects on the Cold War and the civil rights movement, and the motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Griffin begins with his own skeptical reaction to the assassination, proceeds to the Dallas police investigation, and continues with the efforts of himself and his colleagues to sift truth from those who concealed, withheld, or exaggerated evidence.
After nearly six decades of study, Judge Griffin is satisfied that Oswald acted alone. He concludes that violence in the Cold War and civil rights movement caused Oswald to believe that blame for Kennedy's death might be placed on followers of rightwing activist and former U.S. Army general Edwin Walker. Walker was an outspoken enemy of Oswald's idol, Cuban president Fidel Castro, and a firm opponent of racial integration--and Oswald had already attempted to murder Walker in April 1963. The author gives the Walker movement a more prominent place in the assassination story and traces the conflicting ambitions of Walker, Oswald, Kennedy and Ruby as they collided in October and November 1963. This book will help serious readers separate truth from fiction and to become examiners of how insignificant, unsuspected, powerless people driven by very personal needs and fears can, with the help of a firearm, alter the course of history.
Burt W. Griffin was the assistant counsel to the president's commission on the assassination of President Kennedy (popularly known as the Warren Commission) and had primary responsibility for investigating and writing the section of the commission's report on whether Jack Ruby was engaged in a conspiracy to assassinate either JFK, Lee Oswald, or both. He lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Politics One—Investigators Find a Suspect
1. The Most Extensive Criminal Investigation in History
2. Police and Sheriffs at Work
3. Lee Harvey Oswald Faces Captain Will Fritz
4. The Warren Commission Begins Its Work
Politics Two—Prejudice and Truth
5. Truth-Finding and Jack Ruby’s Trial
6. Truth and Self-Interest
7. Jack Ruby Tells His Story
8. Friends, Employees, and Truth-Telling
9. Jack Ruby: The First Conspiracy Investigator
Politics Three—Determining Credibility
10. National Interest, Self-Interest, and Truth
11. Scientific Evidence, Physical Evidence, and the Quest for Truth
12. Sylvia Odio: A Sincere Witness May Be Wrong
13. Mark Lane: A Misleading Advocate
Politics Four—Ambition, Failure, and Assassination
14. Leaving Why to Others
15. Becoming a Marxist
16. To Russia for Love
17. The Maasdam Manifesto
18. Independence and the Changed Man
19. Edwin Walker: A Target for Murder
20. Alone in Dallas: A Chance for Political Reflection
21. Searching for Identity
22. Waiting for Walker
23. Action and Exit
24. The Big Easy
25. Revolution in America
26. Looking at a Different Revolution
27. Beyond Birmingham and Dallas
28. Building a Dossier
29. Fantasies After Failure
30. Another Try at the Dossier
31. Mexico City: Secrecy, Bureaucracy, Credibility, and the Cold War
32. Setting the Stage for Assassination
33. Looking for a New Life
34. Resuming Political Pursuit
35. Agent Hosty Disrupts the Inner World
36. Fathoming the Unknown
37. Distractions from Dallas Dangers
38. Waiting for the President
39. Semifinal Acts
40. Friday, November 22
41. Answering Why?
Politics Five—Coping with Truth in Assassinations
42. Marina and America
43. The Assassination’s Long Arm
44. The Unending Search for Truth
45. A Conversation about Conspiracy, Truth, and Trust
46. Truth and Trust in a Political World
Postscript: Continuing the Search for Truth
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.06.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 22 photos, notes, bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 694 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781476687766 / 9781476687766 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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