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A Certain Arrogance

George Michael Evica
2011

A cruel and shocking act
[The secret history of the Kennedy assassination]

Philip Shenon
2013

A deeper, darker truth
[Tom Wilson's Journey into the Assassination of John F.Kennedy]

Donald T. Phillips
2009

o Shooters behind the picket fence on the grassy knoll.
o Alteration of the Zapruder film.
o Fakery of the Oswald backyard photographs.
o An individual in the "sniper's window" of the Texas School Book Depository who was not Lee Harvey Oswald.
o An exit wound in the back of President Kennedy's head (just as the doctors who attended the President at Parkland Hospital had described.)
o Exact location of the final and fatal head shot.
o Alteration of autopsy x-rays and photographs contained in the National Archives.
Reading like a mesmerizing whodunit murder mystery, A Deeper, Darker Truth chronicles Tom Wilson's evolving series of startling discoveries that show President Kennedy was assassinated by a group of assassins on November 22, 1963.

A Farewell to Justice
[Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the case that should have changed history]

Joan Mellen
2013

Working wuith thousands of previosuly unreleased documents and drawing on mor than one tousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Jaon Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F.Kennedy's murder.

A Heritage of Stone

Jim Garrison
1970

A mother in history

Jean Stafford
1966

A Rose by many other names
[Rose Cherami & the JFK Assassination]

Elliott Todd C.
2013

A Secret Order
[Investigating the High Strangeness and Synchronicity in the JFK Assassination]

H.P. Jr Albarelli
2013

A Simple Act of Murder

Mark Fuhrman
2006

Act of Treason
[The role of J.Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy]

Mark North
1991

American Grotesque

 James Kirkwood
1992

Anatomia di un Assassinio
[Storia segreta dell'omicidio Kennedy]

Philip Shenon
2013

Appointment in Dallas:
the final solution to the assassination of JFK

 Hugh C. McDonald
1975

Assassination and Commemoration
[JFK, Dallas and the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza]

Stephen Fagin
2013

Assassination - The Death of JFK

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Assassination Science

James H. Fetzer
1998

Assassination ! The World Stood Still

John Cottrell
1964

Assignment : Oswald

 Book from the FBI agent assigned to investigate Lee Harvey Oswald prior to JFK assassination

Beyond the fence line

 The Eyewitness account of Ed Hoffman and the murder of President Kennedy.
From the back cover of this book :
"On November 22,1963, President John Kennedy was murdered in front of hundreds of people in Dealey Plaza.
Ed Hoffman saw the man who fired the fatal shot that killed the President - and it was not Lee Harvey Oswald.
His eyewitness account destroys the government's version of a lone gunman shooting from the Texas School Book Depository".
 

Broken Silence

Frankly a not-credible book, in my opinion.

Italian book.
Journalist born in Sicily, Stefano Vaccara teaches two courses in Mafia history at Herbert Lehman College, CUNY. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn, New York.
New Orleans is the true birthplace of the Sicilian mafia in America. Carlos Marcello controlled organized crime in Louisiana and across the southeast in the 1950s and 60s. He was untouchable until he met the Kennedy Brothers. Once Robert Kennedy became attorney general, Marcello was deported to Guatemala and swore to seek revenge. It became a duel to the death.
This is a conspiracy book, linking Carlos Marcello, New Orleans Mafia boss, to JFK Assassination.

Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of JFK:
 MY PREFERRED BOOK!!!!
After almost 40 yrs, Case Closed finally succeeds where hundreds of other books and investigations have failed : it resolves the greatest murder mistery of our time: the assassination of JFK.

"No one knows more about the assassination of President Kennedy than Harold Weisberg" so said the FBI in Open Court. Harold Weisberg -a former OSS and Senate Investigator- wrote and published "Whitewash" in 1965, the first book criticizing the conclusion of the Warren Commission. Since then, he has written and published seven books on President Kennedy's assassination. "Case Open" is a book Mr Weisberg felt compelled to write in order to prove that, in his opinion, Gerald Posner, in his "Case Closed", had proved nothing.

On the assassination of Robert Kennedy, on the background to the Los Angeles assassination, on the mysterious figure of the assassin, on the climate of political violence in which the crime of June 5, 1968 matured, the "30° giorno" series offers the first complete report. The book of September 1968 is the work of six Italian journalists among those who knew the Kennedys most closely, lived the climate of the American elections, and are trying today to understand where the roots of the political violence that has troubled the United States lie.
From the day of the crime to today, the name of Robert Kennedy has been linked several times to that of his brother John and Martin Luther King.
Well, this report aims to provide - for the first time since the subject has been written about - explanatory elements on the reason for such absurd crimes that have troubled the conscience of Americans and of humanity as a whole.

Italian version (1967) of the famous conspiracy book "Whitewash. The report on the Warren report" (1965), about JFK Assassination.

Italian book about JFK Assassination.

On March 1, 1967, New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw was arrested for conspiracy in the murder of President John F. Kennedy. The arrest followed an investigation by the office of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, and the murder of prime suspect David Ferrie. Nearly two years later, the case went to trial (see the Orleans Parish Grand Jury transcripts for grand jury testimony during the intervening period).
The trial opened with witnesses from Clinton, Louisiana, who described an event wherein they witnessed Shaw and Oswald together. There was also testimony on the question of whether Clay Shaw was Clay Bertrand, an alias for the man Dean Andrews told the Warren Commission tried to hire him to defend Oswald after the assassination. Ultimately, the case for a murder conspiracy hung on the testimony of Perry Russo, who described being at a party with Shaw, Ferrie, and Oswald, in which a murder plot involving triangulation of gunfire was discussed.
The trial lasted about three weeks, and went to the jury on the evening of February 28, 1969. In the wee hours of March 1, almost exactly two years after his arrest, Clay Shaw was acquitted.

It's been more than 45 yrs since John F.Kennedy was gunned down while driving past Dallas's Dealey plaza, and most Americans are still not sure who was responsible.
The majority believes Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, infact recent polls show that up to 70% feel it was part of a broader plot. Was it a shadow government of the rich and right wing that ordered Kennedy killed? Did Cuban exiles or even Fidel Castro organize the murder? Or was it a plot by a national or international agency? The CIA perhaps? The FBI? Or the KGB? This programme delves into many of the various conspiracy theories that surround this infamous assassination and aims to find exactly which theory seems the most plausible.

"The definitive book on the Kennedy Assassination"
"With publishers rushing to release sensational books without substance, it takes nerve to reverse that trend. 'Conspiracy of One' is a return to sound thinking and research. It is a must read chronicle of an investigation...its conclusions are most thought-provoking".

Conspiracy book.
Author David E.Scheim offers what he thinks it is a chilling underwood scheme to control the government of the United States of America through fear, extortion and cold-blooded murder...a terrifying conspiracy that,he thinks, didn't end on a Dallas street on Nov.63, but continued unabated to his days (he wrote the book in 1988).

Conspiracy book.
From back cover:
"The first edition of "Coup d'Etat in America" was published in 1975. Since its publication virtually all Kennedy assassination researchers use this book's information.
Now master sleuths Weberman and Canfield tie it all together with over50 pages of new research and evidence".

Images of the assassination of John F.Kennedy are burned deeply into the memories of millions who watched the events of November 1963 unfold live on television. Never before had America seen an event of this magnitude as it happened.
But what is it we remember? How did the near chaos of the shooting and its aftermath get transformed into a seamless story of epic proportions? In this book, Barbie Selizer explores the way we learned about and came to make sense of the killing of the president.
COVERING THE BODY (the title refers to the charge given journalists to follow a president) is a powerful reassessment of the media's role in shaping our collective memory of the assassination. At the same time, it shows how the media used the assassination coverage to legitimize their role as official interpreters of American reality.
Of the more than fifty reporters covering Kennedy in Dallas, no one actually saw the assassination. And faced with a monumentally important story that was continually breaking, most journalists had no time to verify leads or substantiate reports. Rather, they took discrete moments of their stories and turned them into one coherent narrative, blurring what was and was not "professional" about their coverage.
Through incisive analyses of the many accounts and investigations in the years since the shooting, Zelizer reveals how journalists used the assassination not just to relay the news but to address the issues they saw as central to the profession and to promote themselves as cultural authorities. Indeed, argues Zelizer, these motivations are still alive and are at the core of the controversy surrounding Oliver Stone's movie, JFK.
At its heart, COVERING THE BODY raises serious questions about the role of the media in defining our reality, and shaping our myths and memories. In tracing how journalists attempted to answer questions that still trouble most Americans, Zelizer offers a fascinating analysis of the role of the media as cultural authorities.

Veteran Texas journalist Jim Marrs pulls together a stunning wealth of facts and evidence to reveal the glaring defects in official versions of what happened that fateful day in November 1963 when president Kennedy was shot.
This book is a classic for those who believes in a conspiracy.

In the months and weeks before the fateful November 22nd, 1963, Dallas was brewing with political passions, a city crammed with larger-than-life characters dead-set against the Kennedy presidency. These included rabid warriors like defrocked military general Edwin A. Walker; the world's richest oil baron, H. L. Hunt; the leader of the largest Baptist congregation in the world, W.A. Criswell; and the media mogul Ted Dealey, who raucously confronted JFK and whose family name adorns the plaza where the president was murdered. On the same stage was a compelling cast of marauding gangsters, swashbuckling politicos, unsung civil rights heroes, and a stylish millionaire anxious to save his doomed city.

Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis ingeniously explore the swirling forces that led many people to warn President Kennedy to avoid Dallas on his fateful trip to Texas. Breathtakingly paced, Dallas 1963 presents a clear, cinematic, and revelatory look at the shocking tragedy that transformed America. Countless authors have attempted to explain the assassination, but no one has ever bothered to explain Dallas-until now.

With spellbinding storytelling, Minutaglio and Davis lead us through intimate glimpses of the Kennedy family and the machinations of the Kennedy White House, to the obsessed men in Dallas who concocted the climate of hatred that led many to blame the city for the president's death. Here at long last is an accurate understanding of what happened in the weeks and months leading to John F. Kennedy's assassination. Dallas 1963 is not only a fresh look at a momentous national tragedy but a sobering reminder of how radical, polarizing ideologies can poison a city-and a nation.

The question of why Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald was the central issue of his trial by Judge Joe B.Brown. With compelling immediacy and exhaustive detail, the judge's memoir is a vital contribution to the quintessential murder mistery of the 20th century. Diane Holloway expanded and adapted the memoir of Judge Joe Brown given to her by son, Judge Joe Brown,Jr.

Book written in the 50th Anniversary of JFK Assassination.
From back cover:
JFK had won the Presidency in 1960 by a razor thin majority, and his re-election campaign for 1964 was expected to be as close. He began it in November 1963 with a kick-off multi-city, four-day swing across the important state of Texas. It was going unexpectedly well when shots were fired into his triumphant motorcade in downtown Dallas that ripped history apart, changing it forever The assassination of American President John F. Kennedy in 1963 came at the very height of both the Cold War following the Second World War and the Pax Americana that was thought to exist at the war's conclusion in 1945. The United States and its allies possessed a far greater number of nuclear weapons than their Soviet adversaries, but the latter could unleash World War 3 and a nuclear Armageddon that would destroy them all. The sudden and totally unexpected murder in broad daylight in an American city of one of the most popular presidents in history was the murder mystery of the 20th century. The Cold War could have become hot and nuclear within minutes. The murderer had to be found and vital questions had to be answered quickly. Who did it, why and who ordered Kennedy's assassination? Was the deed part of a conspiracy: foreign, domestic or both? Were none of the these questions part of the bloody puzzle and was it entirely possible that only one man was responsible? The questions remain to this very day and "Dallas Fifty Years On: The Murder of John F. Kennedy" reveals sensational new evidence, eyewitness accounts and top secret documentation.

Dealey Plaza - National Historic Landmark & The 6th Floor Museum

Hunt Conover
1997

Dear Mrs. Kennedy
  [The world shares its grief letters, November 1963]

Jay Mulvaney and
 Paul De Angelis
2010

Death in Dallas - The JFK Assassination

Dean King
ebook
2012

Death of JFK - Assassination and aftermath

The History Channel
VHS

Brilliant special from History Channel on the Death of the 35th President of the United States.
It is the Holy Grail of conspiracy theorists. More than 30 years after the fact, the assassination of John F. Kennedy remains a topic of intense debate. Did Oswald act alone? Was the Warren Commission pressured into releasing a false report? Is it possible that the CIA had Kennedy killed?
Join Mike Wallace for a point-by-point investigation of these and other questions surrounding the events of November 22, 1963. Extensive footage from the CBS archives plus clips from the world-famous Zapruder home movie bring the tragedy to life, while interviews with those who were there including reporters and government officials capture the chaos and grief of one of the most terrible moments in American history.

"In his long awaited magnum opus... Scott does not offer a "who done it". Instead, he uses the assassination as a point of entry for an extended tour through little known, long buried, and truly disturbing regions of American politics"
Jonathan Marshall, Tikkun

The material in this book, together with the evidence contained in the enhanced Zapruder film, tries to present evidence that President Kennedy was murdered by a federal agent by the name of William Greer, the driver of JFK Presidential Limousine in Dallas.

Based on historian Lamar Waldron' startling book, this programme presents compelling evidence that the Mafia was behind the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. After almost half a century in the shadows an FBI informant has come forward to give an explosive, never before seen interview that gives details of the very man who ordered the hit. This man shared a prison cell with Carlos Marcello, the notorius New Orleans godfather, who confessed to him that he had orchestrated the president's murder.
"Did the Mob kill JFK?" backs this up as it tracks Marcello's links with both Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald's assassin, Jack Ruby. It also draws on the testimony of historians, investigators and eyewitnesses, including an interview with former Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden, who claims an aborted attempt on the President's life in Chicago early in November was covered up. This simply is a must-watch for all those intrigued by the mistery that surrounds the assassination of John F.Kennedy.

Italian.

On the cover : "How the unsolved murder of a doctor, a secret laboratory in New Orleans and cancer-causing monkey viruses are linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK assassination and emerging global epidemics".
On the backcover : "When New Orleans native Ed Haslam began his modest investigation into the curious life and shocking death of the brilliant Tulane medical professor Dr. Mary Sherman, he couldn't have imagined that this inquiry would connect some of the city's most prominent citizens to "lone nut" Lee Harvey Oswald, to the Mafia, and to forces high inside the U.S. Government - nor that these new discoveries would ultimately change our understanding of a fateful November day in Dallas. But they have!".

This is the most complete book on the subject ever written in Italian. For completeness of investigation and analysis, it is the Italian equivalent of Posner's "Case Closed", arriving at the same conclusion : Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone killer of JFK. A must-to-have book for all the Italians who want to know all of  JFK Assassination.

November 22nd,1963. The date alone brings to mind a thousand images and a rush of emotion even to people who were not alive at the time of John F.Kennedy's assassination.
As news director and anchor of KRLD-TV, Channel 4, then the CBS affiliate in Dallas, Eddie Barker stationed himself as the Trade Mart where Kennedy was to speak. Of course, the President never arrived. And so, Barker found himself ad-libbing on the air, knowing that something terrible has happened but not exactly sure of what is was. When a doctor acquintance from nearby Parkland Hosptal whispered the awful news in his ear, Eddie made what has been called "the greatest snap evaluation of a source in broadcasting history". Eddie Barker became the first reporter to announce to America that John F.Kennedy was dead.
Certainly Barker's reporting on the assassination and all the other events closely associated with it are at the heart of this book. But this is also a book by one of the true pioneers of local television news.
From the embryonic days of local TV news, swiping stories from the local newspapers and holding up wire-service photos on camera, to the days of true electronic news gathering, Eddie Barker was there. Barker is one of the handful of broadcast journalists who shaped what we take for granted today as local news. 

This is an indispensable one-volume reference source for students, researchers, and general readers investigating the circumstances surrounding President Kennedy's death.

In End of Days, James L. Swanson, the New York Times bestselling author of Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer, brings to life the minute-by-minute details of the JFK assassination—from the Kennedys' arrival in Texas through the shooting in Dealey Plaza and the shocking aftermath that continues to reverberate in our national consciousness fifty years later.
The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, has been the subject of enduring debate, speculation, and numerous conspiracy theories, but Swanson's absorbing and complete account follows the event hour-by-hour, from the moment Lee Harvey Oswald conceived of the crime three days before its execution, to his own murder two days later at a Dallas Police precinct at the hands of Jack Ruby, a two-bit nightclub owner.
Based on sweeping research never before collected so powerfully in a single volume, and illustrated with photographs, End of Days distills Kennedy's assassination into a pulse-pounding thriller that is sure to become the definitive popular account of this historic crime for years to come.