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Flammonde, Paris. 1969. The Kennedy Conspiracy: An Uncommissioned Report on the Jim Garrison Investigation. New York: Meredith Press.
Fonzi, Gaeton. 1994. The Last Investigation. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.
Franqui, Carlos. 1985. Family Portrait with Fidel. New York: Vintage Books. Don’t miss the foreword by the great Cuban novelist Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Fursenkso, Aleksandr, and Timothy Naftali. 1997. One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro & Kennedy, 1958–1964. New York: Norton.
Garrison, Jim. 1970. A Heritage of Stone. New York: Putnam.
———. 1976. The Star-Spangled Contract. New York: McGraw-Hill.
———. 1988. On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy. New York: Sheridan Square Press.
Gentry, Curt. 1991. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. New York: Norton.
Gibson, Donald. 2000.The Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up.Commack, NY: Kroshka Books.
Gottschall, Alvin G. 1997. Growing Up in New Orleans. New York: Vantage Press. Gottschall went to high school with Jim Garrison and provides several amusing anecdotes about Garrison as a practical joker, friend and fraternity brother.
Gould, Jennifer. 1997. Vodka, Tears, and Lenin’s Angel: My Adventures in the Wild and Woolly Former Soviet Union. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
Grose, Peter. 1994. Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
Haas, Edward F. 1974. DeLesseps S. Morrison and the Image of Reform: New Orleans Politics, 1946–1961. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
Hancock, Larry. 2003. Someone Would Have Talked: What We Know Forty Years after the Murder of President Kennedy. Southlake, TX: JFK Lancer Productions and Publications.
Heath, Robert G. 1996. Exploring the Mind—Brain Relationship. Baton Rouge, LA: Moran Printing.
Helms, Richard. 2003. A Look Over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency. New York: Random House.
Hepburn, James. 1968. Farewell America. Verviers, Belgium: Frontiers.
Hersh, Burton. 1992. The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA. New York: Scribner.
Hersh, Seymour M. 1997.The Dark Side of Camelot. New York: Little, Brown. The implication is that John F. Kennedy’s profligate sexuality affected his decision making, a charge Hersh cannot substantiate.
Hinckle, Warren, and William Turner. 1992. Deadly Secrets: The CIA— MAFIA War against Castro and the Assassination of JFK. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.
Holz, Denice, ed. 1981. Conspiracy in Dallas. Shreveport, LA: Fairchild Books, Research Division.
Hosty, James P. Jr. 1996. Assignment: Oswald. New York: Arcade.
James, Rosemary, and Jack Wardlaw. 1967. Plot or Politics? New York: Pelican Books. Breezily sarcastic, this book superficially covers Jim Garrison’s early political career. Its bias is unrelentingly in favor of Clay Shaw. Information about Jim Garrison is drawn primarily from the public record.
Joesten, Joachim. 1964. Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy? New York: Marzani and Munsell.
———. 1967. The Garrison Enquiry. London: Peter Dawnay.
The Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities: State of Louisiana. 1963, 1964. Report No. 4. “Activities of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. in Louisiana.” Part 1, November 19, 1963. Report No. 5. “Activities of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. in Louisiana.” Part 2, April 13, 1964. Prepared and released by the Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities, State of Louisiana. Old State Capitol. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Kaiser, David. 2000. American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson, and the Origins of the Vietnam War. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Kaiser, Robert Blair. 1975. “The JFK Assassination: Why Congress Should Reopen the Investigation.” Rolling Stone, no. 185, April 24, 1975, pp. 27–28, 30–31, 33, 37–38.
Kantor, Seth. 1978. Who Was Jack Ruby? New York: Everest House.
Keefer, Edward C., Charles S. Sampson, and Louis J. Smith, eds. 1996. Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961–1963, Vol. XI. Washington, DC: U.S Government Printing Office.
Kiel, R. Andrew. 2000. J. Edgar Hoover: The Father of the Cold War. Lanham, NY: University Press of America.
King, Larry. 1982. Larry King by Larry King. New York: Simon and Schuster. King attempts to justify his purloining of money donated to the Garrison investigation by financier Louis E. Wolfson.
Kinoy, Arthur. 1983. Rights on Trial: The Odyssey of a People’s Lawyer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Contains an excellent account of the Dombrowski case.
Kirkwood, James. 1970. American Grotesque. New York: Simon and Schuster. When Clay Shaw, scanning the homosexual community, requested that James Herlihy write a positive book about him, and he declined, Herlihy enlisted Kirkwood to undertake the task. This book manages to describe the Shaw trial without a shred of political insight.
Kurtz, Michael L. 1982. Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian’s Perspective. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
La Fontaine, Ray, and Mary La Fontaine. 1996. Oswald Talked: The New Evidence in the JFK Assassination. Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing. This book includes Mary Ferrell’s discovery regarding the government Department of Defense card carried by Oswald after he left the service.
Lambert, Patricia. 1998. False Witness: The Real Story of Jim Garrison’s Investigation and Oliver Stone’s JFK. 1998. New York: M. Evans. A onedimensional attack on Garrison, which includes a preposterous charge that Oliver Stone must have Nazi sympathies since he, like every film artist, admires the work of Leni Riefenstahl.
Lane, Mark. 1966. Rush To Judgment. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. The landmark study by the originator of this field of research.
———. 1968. A Citizen’s Dissent: Mark Lane Replies. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
———. 1991. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.
Lewis, Ron. 1993. Flashback: The Untold Story of Lee Harvey Oswald. Roseburg, OR: Lewcom.
Le Sueur, James D. 2001. Uncivil War: Intellectuals and Identity Politics During the Decolonization of Algeria. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Relates some of the story of Jacques Soustelle.
Littell, Robert. 2003. The Company: A Novel of the CIA. New York: Penguin Books.
Macdonald, Dwight. 1965. “A Critique of the Warren Report.” Esquire. March, pp. 59–67.
Mallon, Thomas. 2002. Mrs. Paine’s Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy. New York: Pantheon Books.
Malone, Lee. 1989. The Majesty of the Felicianas. Gretna, LA:. Pelican.
Mangold, Tom. 1991. Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’s Master Spy Hunter. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Marchetti, Victor, and Marks, John D. 1974. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence. New York: Knopf.
Marcus, Raymond. 1995. Addendum B: Addendum to the HSCA, The Zapruder Film, and the Single Bullet Theory. Marcus did original photographic analysis, particularly on Mary Moorman’s photograph taken at Dealey Plaza. MIT photographic laboratories confirmed that the figure of a man with a gun could be discerned to the front of the Kennedy motorcade.
Marks, John. 1979. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate. New York: Times Books.
The Marquis de Sade: The Complete Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and other writings.1966. Comp. and trans. by Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse. New York: Grove Press.
Marrs, Jim. 1989. Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy. New York: Carroll and Graf.
May, Ernest R., and Philip D. Zelikow. 1997. The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
McClellan, Barr. 2003. Blood, Money and Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K. New York: Hanover House.
McComb, John. 1968.Stand
Up! You Are an American.Vienna, VA: Founders Press.
McMillan, Priscilla Johnson. 1977. Marina and Lee. New York: Harper and Row.
Meagher, Sylvia. 1976. Accessories after the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities and the Report. New York: Vintage Books.
Melanson, Philip H. 1990. Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and U.S. Intelligence. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Messick, Hank. 1968. Syndicate in the Sun. New York: Macmillan.
Navarro, Antonio. 1981. Tocayo: A Cuban Resistance Leader’s True Story. Westport, CT: Sandown Books.
Newman, John. 1992. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. New York: Warner Books.
———. 1995. Oswald and the CIA. New York: Carroll and Graf.
Oglesby Carl. 1976. The Yankee and Cowboy War. Kansas City, MO: Sheed, Andrews and McMeel. Oglesby attempts to find a motive for the murder of President Kennedy in a dispute between warring factions of capitalism.
Oswald, Robert.1967. Lee: A Portrait of Lee Harvey Oswald. New York: Coward-McCann. There are interesting glimpses of Oswald in his boyhood. Discount all the attempts, obvious in their absurdity, to place guns in the hands of the young Lee, and the assumption, offered by ignoring the Zapruder film, that his brother acted alone in the murder of the President. Where Robert Oswald attempts to justify the conclusions of the Warren Report, he is embarrassing. Where he offers images of Lee navigating a childhood of neglect, his book is invaluable.
Pearson, John. 1966. The Life of Ian Fleming. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Phelan, James. 1982. Scandals, Scamps, and Scoundrels: The Casebook of an Investigative Reporter. New York: Random House. Posing as an independent reporter for the Saturday Evening Post, Phelan attempted to discredit Garrison’s investigation on behalf of the FBI and the CIA. Memos of his numerous contacts with that agency, contacts originally initiated by Phelan himself, are available at the National Archives.
Philbrick, Herbert A. 1952. I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, “Communist,” Counterspy. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. Philbrick was Oswald’s hero—and his model.
Piper, Michael Collins. 1995. Final Judgement: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy. Washington, DC: Wolfe Press.
Polmar, Norman. 2001. Spyplane: The U-2 History Declassified. Osceola, WI: MBI Publishing.
Popkin, Richard H. 1966. The Second Oswald. New York: An Avon Library New York Review Book.
Posner, Gerald. 1994. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday. Edited by Robert Loomis, this book has been touted as the last word on the subject, despite its many factual errors. See William Turner, Rear View Mirror, for an account of how Random House editor Robert Loomis solicited Posner to write this book with the promise of full CIA cooperation.
Powers, Francis Gary, with Curt Gentry. 1970. Operation Overflight: The U-2 Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Powers notes the presence of Lee Harvey Oswald in the Soviet courtroom where he stood trial.
Powers, Thomas. 1979. The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA. New York: Knopf.
Prochnau, William. 1995. Once Upon a Distant War. New York: Times Books. A source for John F. Kennedy’s obsessive attacks on New York Times reporter David Halberstam.
project mk/ultra, The CIA’s Program of Research in Behavioral Modification. 1977. Joint Hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee of Human Resources, U.S. Senate. Ninety-Fifth Congress. First Session. August 3. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Prouty, L. Fletcher. 1973. The Secret Team: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
———. 1992. JFK, the CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy. New York: Citadel Press.
Rappleye, Charles, and Ed Becker. 1991. All American Mafioso: The Johnny Rosselli Story. New York: Doubleday.
Ratcliffe, David T. 1999. Understanding Special Operations and Their Impact on the Vietnam War Era. Santa Cruz, CA: rat haus reality press.
Reeves, Richard. 1993. President Kennedy: Profile of Power. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 1964. United States Government Printing Office. Washington, D.C. The 26 volumes are available at historymatters.com.
Rodriguez, Juan Carlos. 1999. The Bay of Pigs and the CIA. Melbourne, Australia, and New York: Ocean Press. This is the official Cuban point of view regarding that event.
Rogers, Kim Lacy. 1993. Righteous Lives: Narratives of the New Orleans Civil Rights Movement. New York: New York University Press.
Russell, Dick. 1992. The Man Who Knew Too Much. New York: Carroll and Graf. “The man” is the ambivalent Richard Case Nagell. Russell’s research is exhaustive. Second Carroll and Graf paperback edition, 2003.
Russo, Gus. 1998. Live by the Sword: The Secret War against Castro and the Death of JFK. Baltimore: Bancroft Press. Ignore Russo’s conclusion and examine his interviews with Miami sources.
Sahl, Mort. 1976. Heartland. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. Many errors in the discussion of the Garrison investigation.
Salandria, Vincent J. 1971. “The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: A Model for Explanation.” Computers and Automation, December 1971, pp. 32–40.
Saunders, Frances Stonor. 1999. The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. New York: New Press.
Scheim, David E. 1988. Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy. New York: Shapolsky.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. 1965. A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
———. 1978. Robert Kennedy and His Times. New York: Ballantine Books.
Schotz, E. Martin. 1996. History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy. Kurtz, Brookline, MA: Ulmer and DeLucia.
Scott, Peter Dale. 1977. Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection. Santa Barbara, CA: Open Archives Press. Some of the references to Garrison here are erroneous; sources for discussion of Garrison come from hostile FBI/CIA informants James Phelan and Walter Sheridan.
Seelig, Frederick. 1967. Destroy the Accuser. Miami: Freedom Press.
Sheridan, Walter. 1972. The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa. New York: Saturday Review Press. Sheridan here attempts to defend himself and asserts that he did not try to bribe Garrison witnesses for his NBC “White Paper.” Since he fled the jurisdiction, rather than face charges of attempted bribery, the matter was never adjudicated. See “Anything To Get Hoffa,” which exposes Sheridan’s methods.
Simpson, Christopher. 1988. Blowback: America’s Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effect on the Cold War. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.
Slovenko, Ralph, ed. 1966. Crime Law And Corrections. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas. For Jim Garrison’s Foreword, “A Heritage Of Stone,” pp. xvii-xxv.
Sonnenberg, Ben. 1991. Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy. New York: Summit Books: Sonnenberg was cleared for CIA’s Project QKENCHANT in 1959, and the clearance was renewed in 1965. During that period, he edited Mark Lane’s Rush To Judgment. Sonnenberg reveals few of the details of his CIA service.
Sorensen, Theodore C. 1966. Kennedy. New York: Bantam Books.
———. 1969. The Kennedy Legacy. New York: Macmillan.
Sprague, Richard E., Thomas G. Whittle, and Kay Skinner. “The Ultimate Cover-Up: The CIA and the Killing of John F. Kennedy, Part II.” Mimeographed. Available at the National Archives.
Sproesser, Louis, ed. 1999. The Garrison Investigation: November 1966 to February 1968. Sturbridge, MA: Southern New England Research.
———, ed. 1997. Justice Denied: The Sirhan, Shaw, Ray Trials. A Chronology, January 1969 to December 1969. Sturbridge, MA: Southern New England Research.
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br /> Stafford, Jean. 1966. A Mother in History: Marguerite Oswald, The Mother of the Man Who Killed Kennedy. New York: Bantam Books. A smug, heartless little book, simultaneously overwritten (“It sounded like catastrophe, and I was sorry to be in alien corn”) and ignorant of the elementary facts, by the distinguished fiction writer and widow of stellar journalist A. J. Liebling who should have known better.
Summers, Anthony. 1980. Conspiracy. New York: McGraw-Hill.
———. 1998. Not in Your Lifetime: The Definitive Book on the J.F.K. Assassination. New York: Marlowe. Update of Conspiracy, 1980. Contains important original interviews.
Stone, Oliver, and Zachary Sklar. 1992. JFK: The Book of the Film. New York: Applause Books.
Tanner, Hans. 1962. Counter-Revolutionary Agent: Diary of the Events which Occurred in CUBA between January and July, 1961. London: G. T. Foulis.
Thomas, D. M. 1992. Flying in to Love: A Novel. New York: Carroll and Graf.
Thomas, Evan. 1995. The Very Best Men: Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA. New York: Simon and Schuster.
———. 2000. Robert F. Kennedy: His Life. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Thomas, Kenn. 1999. Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy. Lilburn, GA: IllumiNet Press.
Thornley, Kerry. 1965. Oswald. Chicago: New Classics House.
———. 1991. The Idle Warriors. Avondale Estates, GA: IllumiNet Press.
Toplin, Robert Brent, ed. 2000. Oliver Stone’s USA: Film, History, and Controversy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Trento, Joseph J. 2001. The Secret History of the CIA. Roseville, CA: Forum, Prima Publishing.
Turner, William. 2001. Rearview Mirror: Looking Back at the FBI, the CIA and other Tails. Granite Bay, CA: Penmarin Books.
Twyman, Noel. 1997. Bloody Treason: On Solving History’s Greatest Murder Mystery: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Rancho Santa Fe, CA: Laurel.
U.S. House of Representatives. 1979. The Final Assassinations Report: Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations. New York: Bantam Books.
Walton, Richard J. 1972. Cold War and Counterrevolution: The Foreign Policy of John F. Kennedy. New York: Viking Press.
Weisberg, Harold. 1965. Whitewash: The Report on the Warren Report. New York: Dell.