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The Death of a President

Just weeks after the assassination of President John F.Kennedy, author William Manchester received a rare invitation to record the tragic and historic events in Texas. The suggestion came from Mrs. John F.Kennedy herself. The result was this astoundingly detailed book, described by David Brinkley as "the biggest publishing story since the New Testament".

The Echo from Dealey Plaza

The true story of the first African American on the White House Secret Service detail and his quest for justice after the assassination of JFK.
"A gripping and unforgettable true story of bravery and patriotism in the face of bitter hatred".

The Girl On The Stairs
[My search for a missing witness to the assassination of John F.Kennedy]

On November 22,1963 a young Victoria Elizabeth Adams stood behind a fourth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas. She watched as John Kennedy was murdered in the streets below. Then, with a co-worker in tow, she ran down the back stairs to get outside and determine what had happened.
At that moment, her life changed forever.
The timing of her descent posed serious problems for the Warren Commission's agenda that Lee Harvey Oswald was the gunman. If she was telling the thuth, Miss Adams was on the same stairs at the same time as the escaping assassin. Yet she had seen and heard no one. When she testified, she was discredited, humiliated and branded a liar. Told she had simply erred and came down those stairs later than she thought, Miss Adams begged to have her story corroborated by her co-worker of by a timed test conducted to determine her accuracy.
Instead, she was ignored.
Knowing the truth and now fearing for her life because of it, she went into hiding, content to die with her secret knowledge.
With a background as an investigative journalist, the author began his search for Miss Adams in 1967. It took him 35 years to track down this elusive witness but when he did, the truths behind Miss Adams were finally revealed.
This is the story the government didn't want you to hear and actually fabricated evidence so you wouldn't hear it.
Now, it can be told.

The Gun

This book is the history - the life - of one gun : the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle that killed John F.Kennedy.
Henry S.Bloomgarden begins at the beginning : the manufacture of this rifle in a small Italian city in 1940.

The Guns of Texas Are Upon You

Walt Brown has a PhD in History from the University of Notre Dame, and teaches history at Ramapo College inNew Yersey.
Brown, a former special agent of the Jutice Department is a longtime researcher of the Warren Commission and the assassination of John F.Kennedy. He edits the JFK/Deep Politic Quarterly since 1995.
From the author Walt Brown :
"The purpose of this work is to place the murder of John F.Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, in an historical context that will lighten the burden of those who continue to seek answers - the truth - in the ultimate criminal act in the United States in the twentieth century.
As you read, search for the patterns and behaviors that define the historical dynamic, and once found, it is hoped your journey to your own personal solution of the event will be simplified.".
This book was personally signed from the author with nice message to me.

The Hidden Story of the JFK Assassination
[The Definitive Account of the Most Controversial Crime of the Twentieth Century]

This book draws on exclusive interviews with more than two dozen associates of John and Robert Kennedy, in addition to former FBI, Secret Service, military intelligence, and Congressional personnel, who provided critical first-hand information. It also uses government files - including the detailed FBI confession of notorious Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello - to simply and clearly reveal exactly who killed JFK. Marcello's own words to his closest associates describe the plot, and his confession, is backed up by a wealthy of indipendent documentation.

The HSCA Final Assassinations Report
[Findings and Recommendations]

The Final Report of the House Select Committee on Assassinations presents the HSCA's findings in the murders of both President John F. Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. The HSCA found a "probable conspiracy" in the JFK assassination, but was unable to determine its nature or participants (other than that Oswald was still deemed to have fired all the successful shots). In the King case, the HSCA similarly found that James Earl Ray assassinated Reverend King, but that there might have been a small-scale conspiracy involved.
For many assassination researchers, the HSCA's findings suggested a "limited hangout" of a deeper and more disturbing reality. The release of the HSCA's internal files in the 1990s has certainly provided fodder for this view, including evidence of HSCA cover-ups in the area of the medical evidence and of Oswald's intelligence connections and his mysterious trip to Mexico City.
The HSCA Report presents an overview of the HSCA's work. Many more details are present in the twelve volumes of appendices published in each of the two assassination cases (the JFK volumes are available online here). The voluminous files of the HSCA and the many depositions taken in the investigation are a fertile field for today's researchers.

The diary of Jury Foreman Max Causey

Who killed JFK? Ever since that fateful day in Dallas, theories about President Kennedy's murder have proliferated, running the gamut from the official "lone gunman" verdict to both serious and utterly screwball conspiracy theories. Michael Kurtz, a distinguished historian who has explored every crevice of this controversial case for more than thirty years, now sums up and critiques four decades of debate, while also offering provocative new perspectives.

Mel Ayton, a historian and former teacher and lecturer in the UK and the USA, has spent 30 years sifting through the baffling profusion of hard evidence and hearsay and in this book he reveals his findings. One by one he demolishes the many conspiracy theories put forward in the past 40 years and exposes how decades of misinformation have distorted the public's perception of the "crime of the century", culminating in the release of Oliver Stone's movie "JFK", which repeated many myths to the detriment of the genuine historical record.

In this work, Carl Oglesby analyses major writings and official reports about the assassination and enables the reader to decide which of the various theories may be the most plausible and convincing.

Over 7 hrs packed into 146 Digitally Remastered MP3 on 1 CD.

Professor Brown's "Quiz Book" on the assassination of President Kennedy is an invaluable guide for the serious researcher, scholar and citizen who desires to know the basic facts of the case that has come to be know as the Crime of the Century.

The Timeline Chart contains an enormous amount of material.

A VHS Video supporting conspiracy theories. From the back cover "This video is the most penetrating probe ever into the JFK conspiracy. Interviews with witnesses, experts and former federal agents build a damning case against the authorities. And sensational footage of the minutes leading to the murder, and of the assassination itself, provide shocking insights into that historic day".

This is a Conspiracy Book : The first hand experience of the Naval Surgeon assigned to perform the Kennedy autopsy documents a conspiracy at the highest levels. Before the forensic exam , the gunshot evidence was changed by a covert team of specialists. Two wounds from the front became one artificial one from the rear. The new findings became the key evidence for the immediate and final conclusion. There had been one, and only one, shooter. In less than twenty-four hours, the lone assassin had become a permanent part of American history and Lee Harvey Oswald was cast as one of it's great villians. Factual and frightening. Precise CSI technology, painstaking research, and a unique deathbed revelation come together to answer the key questions. WHO DONE IT and HOW HAVE THEY MANAGED TO COVER IT UP?

"Lyndon B.Johnson's pivotal first day as President".

Steve Gillon expertly guides us through the cloud of confusion, grief, rage, and stark terror that followed the shots in Dallas. He immerses us in the moment, rendering events in real time and remarkable detail. As Gillon makes clear, these twenty-four hours cast a long shadow from which Lyndon Johnson never emerged.

Utilizing modern technology, computer animator Dale Myers created a digital simulation of the only known film of the murder, a 16mm home movie taken by Leon Zapruder, a bystander that filmed the fatal shots. Then Myers matched this digital film to a three-dimensional computer model of Dealey Plaza which he created that reconstructs the plaza exactly as it appeared at the time of the murder. The resulting digital animation allowed Myers to re-create the exact viewpoint from any perspective within the plaza at the moment and finally provide concrete evidence of whether or not Oswald was a lone assassin or if a conspiracy actually existed. Also examined in this excellent DVD is new evidence discovered years later on an audio tape from an open police microphone at the scene and other theories that circulated including Communist ties and mob involvement in the assassination.

Dallas : 22nd Nov.1963. Seven seconds that shook the world. Investigation into the Ultimate Crime.

Never before has such a large proportion of the American public felt so instantly and closely a part of events of great national importance as during the tragic hours and days that followed the assassination of President Kennedy. When  scholars recovered from the shock of the first news, many of them realized that this was a chapter in national history that should be studied. They sought above all to understand the public reaction to a great disaster, and how the flow of information helped shape that reaction.
This book presents the most significative results of the studies that were undertaken.

The White House conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson regarding the assassination, the Warren Commission and the aftermath.
This book is a major work of documentary history : the brilliantly edited and annotated transcripts, most of them never before published, of the presidential conversation of Lyndon B. Johnson regarding the Kennedy Assassination and its aftermath.

Anthony Summers is one of the main conspiracy writers. He calls this book as "the definitive account of the assassination - including the parts left out of Oliver Stone's controversial movie JFK".

From back cover:
In early January of 1992, Frank Ragano, attorney for Hoffa and Trafficante and friend to Marcello, decided to break his 29 years silence.
John H.Davis here reveals the riveting story behind Ragano's allegation. Including new information from key witnesses and shocking details surrounding the cover-up. "The Kennedy Contract" blows the lid off the most fascinating murder case in U.S. history.

"The Kennedy Detail - Part 1" is a fascinating account of all the events that occurred in the build up to that fateful day in Dallas, Texas 1963, told by Kennedy's very own Secret Service agents. Exclusive interviews with the men whose job it was to protect Kennedy and his family show them talking candidly about life at the White House. Their anecdotes and memories afford the viewer a unique insight into Kennedy's administration, and of course his assassination, and offer a different perspective of the events that we all think we know well. 

"The Kennedy Detail - Part 2" is an incredible insight into all of the events that occurred on 22nd November 1963, and in the immediate aftermath of JFK's assassination. Told by Kennedy's very own Secret Service agents, whose biggest fear was that their best would not be good enough, this programme affords the viewer a unique insight into the events that we all think we know well, as they talk candidly about their fond memories and of course, their regrets.

The Secret Service is an elite team of men who share a single mission : to protect the president of the United States. On November 22,1963 these men failed - and a country would never be the same. Now, for the first time, a member of JFK's Secret Service detail revals the inside story of the assassination, the weeks and days that led to it and its hearttrending aftermath. This extraordinary book is a moving, intimate portrait of dedication, courage and loss.
Drawing on the memories of his fellow agents, Jerry Blaine captures the energetic, crowd-loving young president, who banned agents from his car and often plunged into raucous crowds with little warning. He describes the careful planning that went into JFK's Texas swing, the worries and concerns that agents, working long hours with little food or rest, had during the trip. And he describes the intensely private first lady making her first-ever political appearance with her husband,  just months after losing a newborn baby.
"The Kennedy Detail" is a portrait of incredible camaraderie and incredible heartbreak - a true must-read story of heroism in its most complex and human form.

When John F.Kennedy entered the presidential limousine at Love Field on November 22,1963, he began his ride into history.
On the fifth anniversary of his assassination, celebrated political scientist Larry J.Sabato - himself inspired as a child by JFK and his presidency - explores the fascinating powerful and often controversial influence that Kennedy still wields in politics and among the public.
Sabato chronicles the dramatic, contentious campaign that brought JFK to the Oval Office, and the events over the next three years that ultimately led him to his death in Dealey plaza. His pulsating and revealing reexamination of JFK's assassination is based on heretofore unknown information to which Sabato has had exclusive access, and it significantly recasts our understanding of that fateful day in Dallas.

Conspiracy book.
From back cover:
"THE KENNEDYS uncovers the truth behind the greatest conspiracy story of the twentieth century: the devastanting plot against America's first family. Mindblogging in its implications, the conspiracy aimed at changing the direction of American politics but went much more further, altering the political direction of the whole world.
In the view of the conspirators, John F.Kennedy should never have become President. His plans to put the needs of the people before those of big business were intolerable. There were fears that he had a socialist streak which may well be identifiable as communist. From the moment he took office, he was on his way out. It was only a question of time.
This is a story of hatred, revenge and murder that was covered up by stark fear for may years.
THE KENNEDYS is an unbelievably dramatic, dynamic and awesomely gripping work that will shock and enlighten many."

"The complete photographic record of the JFK Assassination, the Conspiracy and the Cover-up".
Robert Groden supports the conspiracy theory and has helped Oliver Stone as consultant for his JFK movie.

A former Federal Investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassination breaks his oath of silence and tells what insiders know about the assassination of JFK

An original conspiracy book with a different theory on JFK Assassination (even if not very credible in my opinion).
According to the authors a look at the assassination of John F. Kennedy offers evidence that places Charles Rogers--a psychopath wanted for the murder and dismemberment of his parents in 1965--at the site of the crime.

This remarkable journal purports to be a detailed account of the author’s role in the assassination of President John Kennedy.
The journal has now been reviewed in detail by a number of Kennedy assassination experts, from a noted “dream team” attorney to forensic pathologists, autopsy experts and others who appeared before the Warren Commission. No flaw has been found in the work, which presents, in the view of most experts, a more acceptable version of the actual assassination than the Warren Commission. There is an appendix of exhibits supporting the manuscript, including an airplane ticket, Soviet weapon with serial number, passport identification, license tags and other material.
Perhaps as telling as the detailed information and photographs furnished, as provoking as the scrutiny of assassination experts, the journal is an understated, poignant account, a haunting memoir by an anonymous author with no wish to surface. It is as spellbinding as Day of the Jackal.

From inside cover :
"What does legendary political operative Roger Stone know that historians Robert Caro and Robert Dallek and Fox news host Bill O'Reilly don't?
He knows that Lyndon Johnson was behind the assassination of President John F.Kennedy.
Combining decades of insider political knowledge with cutting-edge research, Roger Stone lays out the case that Lyndon Johnson was behind the murder of Kennedy and numerous other victims along the way. Stone reveals that Richard Nixon was convinced that Johnson had a hand in Kennedy's murder - and that both Barry Goldwater and the KGB came to the same conclusion."

 The Men Who Killed Kennedy is a video documentary series by British television network ITV that depicts the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
It was originally broadcast in 1988 in two parts:
Part one - "The Coup d'Etat"
Part two - "The forces of Darkness"

The original broadcast was controversial in Britain. The episodes identify three men as the assassins of Kennedy: deceased drug trafficker Lucien Sarti and two living men (Roger Bocagnani and Sauveur Pironti). All three were later revealed to have strong alibis: Sarti was undergoing medical treatment in France, another was in prison at the time, and the third had been in the French Navy.
 One of the two living men threatened to sue, and Central Television's own subsequent investigation into the allegations revealed they were "total nonsense".
Turner justified his failure to interview one of the accused on the grounds that the individual was "too dangerous". Turner was censured by the British Parliament.

 "Did Robert Kennedy know his brother's assassins?
That's just one of the extraordinary questions explored in 'THE MEN WHO KILLED KENNEDY: THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE...'
A totally original line of inquiry into America's greatest mystery, this program exposes how Bobby Kennedy's plan to kill Fidel Castro was taken over and used to murder the President.
Also, for the first time, a highly-decorated Army colonel speaks specifically of how he was trained to eliminate key assassination witnesses.
This video employs the latest image processing techniques to coclusively prove that autopsy pictured were faked to support the official "lone gunman" theory.
Featuring exclusive interviews with scientists, officials and Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, Marina, this video is a shattery investigation that leads to one inescapable conclusion; the case on Kennedy's murder is far from closed."
Color, approx 50 mins VHS.

Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F.Kennedy, has remained an enigma for several decades. Fortunately, Lee Harvey Oswald was one of those people who wrote a lot. As a result, the public can see the workings as of his mind as his writings are displayed in chronological order throughout his life.

Before Lee Harvey Oswald became linked to the JFK assassination, he was a mediocre U.S. Marine assigned to a radar squadron in Japan. Author Jack R. Swike, a former Marine Corps Intelligence Officer stationed in Japan, spent over two decades researching Oswald's activities overseas, resulting in The Missing Chapter: Lee Harvey Oswald in the Far East. This book will debunk some of the myths about Oswald's life during the Cold War era. For instance, few people know that Oswald's Marine squadron was stationed near a top secret atomic bomb facility on the Atsugi Naval Air Field in Japan, which also housed U-2 spy planes. Using the most reliable sources available, plus interviews with people who knew or had ties to Oswald, Swike has compiled a book of historical significance in unraveling a chapter of Oswald's life that had quite simply been overlooked.

Conspiracy book.
From the back cover:

"These are some of the things you will learn by reading this book:
After almost sixty years, it is time for the world to know the truth behind the death of JFK.
If Kennedy had won reelection in 1964, there would not have been an American Vietnam War.
You will learn things about Lyndon B. Johnson that you would not believe were possible.
John F. Kennedy's assassination started a deep distrust that Americans have with their government that continues to this day.
A major part of this distrust happened because the government lied to us about the assassination and lied to us about the Vietnam War.
The conspiracy theory is what Hoover of the FBI came up with and then passed it along to the news media, the public and the Warren Commission.
This book will tell you what really happened on November 22, 1963."

An examination of the contradictions and omissions of the Warren Report.
As the American correspondent of the Paris newspaper "Le Figaro", Sauvage went to Dallas and busied himself finding all he could about the circumstances of the killing.
In this book, he is very critic about the conclusions of the Warren Commission.

British solicitor Michael Eddowes, born to a family of lawyers, has had a lifelong fascination with the workings of the law and the administration of justice.
"The Oswald File" (published in 1977) sets forth the results of 14 yrs of personal investigation by Michael Eddowes and his team of investigators. Encompassing not only intensive study of the Warren Commission's 26 volumes of Testimony and Exhibits, his research also involved thousands of miles of travel in tracking down many of the people who could give or had given pertinent information regarding the assassination and its aftermath.

Here Walt Brown, using only the evidence and testimony that would have been allowed in court, creates the "Trial of the Century" to prove Oswald's innocence or guilt. You decide.

This writing is by a late-comer to literature of the JFK assassination. It began as fascination with problems perceived in the methodology of the Warren Report, which he photocopied in 1995. Most troublesome was reconciliation of the single bullet theory with the phenomenon of common sense. Since 1997 that problem has generated an attempt to understand why defenders and critics of the Warren Report cannot persuade the American people to embrace differing conclusions and methodology. This writing offers suggestions for future historians who will surely undertake to write history of the JFK assassination.

Conspiracy book.
Focusing for the first time on why Attorney General Robert F.Kennedy wasn't killed in 1963 instead of why President John F.Kennedy, Mark Shaw offers a stunning and provocative assassination theory that leads directly to the family patriarch, Joseph P.Kennedy.
Mining fresh information and more than forty new interviews, Shaw weaves a spellbinding narattive involving Jack Ruby (Lee Harvey Oswald's killer); Ruby's attorney, Melvin Belli; mafia don Carlos Marcello and , ultimately, the Kennedy brothers and their father.

In an action-packed, minute by minute, ticking-clock narrative, James Swanson, award winning New York Times best-selling author of "Manhunt" and "Chasing Lincoln's killer", weaves together the riveting stories of an assassin and a president as he re-creates four of the saddest and most terrifying days in our history. When it was all over, America would never be the same. The assassination of John F.Kennedy haunts us to this day.

Was "What’s My Line" TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?
These questions and more are answered in former CNN, ESPN, and USA Today legal analyst Mark Shaw’s 25th book, The Reporter Who Knew Too Much. Through discovery of never-before-seen videotaped eyewitness interviews with those closest to Kilgallen and secret government documents, Shaw unfolds a “whodunit” murder mystery featuring suspects including Frank Sinatra, J. Edgar Hoover, Mafia Don Carlos Marcello and a "Mystery Man" who may have silenced Kilgallen. All while by presenting through Kilgallen's eyes the most compelling evidence about the JFK assassinations since the House Select Committee on Assassination’s investigation in the 1970s.
Called by the New York Post, “the most powerful female voice in America,” and by acclaimed author Mark Lane the “the only serious journalist in America who was concerned with who killed John Kennedy and getting all of the facts about the assassination,” Kilgallen’s official cause of death reported as an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, has always been suspect since no investigation occurred despite the death scene having been staged. Shaw proves Kilgallen, a remarkable woman who broke the "glass ceiling" before the term became fashionable, was denied the justice she deserved, that is until now.

David Kaiser is convinced that the assassination of President John F.Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. With is investigative skills, he shows that the evnt of November 22,1963 cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the US's government campaign against organized crime and the furtive quest of two administrations to eliminate Fidel Castro.

Veteran newsman, Seth Kantor, an eyewitness to the execution of Lee Harvey Oswald, spent four years finding answers to the numerous questions regarding Jack Ruby , and in this 1978 book tried to throw new light into the JFK assassination.

The Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, known as the "Church Committee" after its chairman Frank Church, conducted a wide-ranging investigation of the intelligence agencies in the post-Watergate period.
The Church Committee took public and private testimony from hundreds of people, collected huge volumes of files from the FBI, CIA, NSA, IRS, and many other federal agencies, and issued 14 reports in 1975 and 1976.
This Senate Select Committee "Book 5" report (issued in April 1976), often referred to as the Schweiker-Hart Report after its authors, discusses the performance of the CIA and FBI in the investigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. The report analyzes the general question of whether and by what degree the CIA and FBI withheld relevant information from the Warren Commission, which was charged with investigating Kennedy’s murder. Among the information unknown to the Warren Commission (except Commissioner Allen Dulles) were the CIA’s plots to kill Fidel Castro. With the public disclosure of these plots, the idea that Castro “struck back” gained prominence with many at the time. The Committee found that the evidence “indicates that the investigation of the assassination was deficient” and “impeaches the process whereby the intelligence agencies arrived at their own conclusions.”

This book is the first complete photo-biography of Lee Harvey Oswald. It presents nearly every relevant photograph of the alleged assassin of President John F.Kennedy, from his childhood to his death, including more than 600 photos.

"From the Knights Templar to the JFK Assassination: uncovering the truth behind the world's most conspiracy theories".
Monte Cook takes a look at conspiracy theories—ranging from the historically complex to the seriously whacked out. With a disbelieving eye, he traces the history of some of the world's weirdest ideas and even includes a chart showing readers how to make up conspiracy theories for themselves.
Scattered through the book are the paranoid "notes" of an anonymous reader who claims to know what's really going on. You can make up your own mind as to who's telling the truth!