if lee harvey oswald was the only figure involved in the assassination of president john f kennedy (and hundreds of books have argued that he was not), then presumably he fired his rifle from the texas school book depository, due to the line of sight it provided on the presidential motorcade route through dallas.
The choice of a store containing educational texts has been prophetic. When Oswald fired, he unleashed a huge stack of books discussing the events of that day.
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president trump can hope his order to release the latest trove of classified government documents will finally silence jfk speculation literature. in fact, history suggests that the new wave of paperwork will cause another avalanche of publications or revisions of the existing ones.
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In a torrent of commentary matched only by biblical scholarship, all of Kennedy’s books are a response to a single earlier volume: The Warren Commission Report: The Assassination of President Kennedy. Published in September 1964, this investigation concluded that Oswald had acted alone, firing two bullets into Kennedy’s head and neck.
Most publications have been skeptical of this finding. On the Trail of the Killers of Jim Garrison (1988), a Louisiana attorney, and JFK de L Fletcher Prouty: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F Kennedy (1992), provided key source material for the film JFK by oliver stone (1991), which suggested that the president was executed by a large clique of Cuban businessmen, mobsters, politicians, soldiers, dissidents, and spies.
Most contributions to the jfk book repository have taken aim at at least some of the garrison conspiracy theory figures. The most recurrent prime suspect has been Cuba, which had been enraged by Operation Bay of Pigs: Kennedy’s failed attempt to overthrow the Castro dictatorship through a CIA-led invasion of Cuban exiles. The communist island also features in Oswald’s still-mysterious trip, weeks before Kennedy’s shooting, to Mexico City, where he apparently hoped to obtain a visa to defect to Cuba.
don delillo, after an extensive reading of the 26 supporting volumes of the warren report, portrayed oswald in his 1988 novel, libra, as the stooge of a cia attempt to promote war with cuba. James Ellroy’s American Tabloid (1995) begins with Castro’s coup d’état and ends with Dallas’ assassination, which the novel attributes to a conspiracy involving CIA and Mafia Cuban interests.
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who really killed kennedy? (2013), by Dr. jerome r corsi also convicts the mob, albeit with a little help from richard nixon and the french. another work published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of jfk’s death, the man who killed kennedy: the case against lbj, by trump associate roger stone, implicates president lyndon baines johnson, in close association with mobsters and intelligence American.
in 1974 charles mccarry’s autumn tears suggests the assassination was ordered by south vietnam in retaliation for the assassination of its president, ngo dinh diem, during a 1963 cia engineered coup. as mccarry was a former CIA agent, readers suspected the writer was fictionalizing insider knowledge, though he has always insisted in interviews that it was just his theory.
But the most interesting of all the literary retorts to the Warren Report is Norman Mailer’s Tale of Oswald: An American Mystery (1995), which used KGB material published in post-Soviet Russia to illuminate the formative period that the alleged killer kennedy spent in the ussr as a young man. However, despite this period deepening the mystery of Oswald’s motives, the generally anarchist mail finally concludes: “every knowledge we have gained of him suggests the solitary nature of his act.” Mailer’s astute comparison of murder to masturbation underscores his theory that the killer was driven by narcissistic selfishness, rather than external commission.
the prominence of mexico and cuba in kennedy’s books means those countries are likely to be among the most searched words in the latest version of the archive. And those of us who find Autumn Tears the most plausible explanation for the murder will look with particular interest at any CIA documentation dealing with Diem’s death.
However, these documents are unlikely to be the last word. A quarter of a century ago, Gerald R Posner published a book, concluding that Oswald was a lone operator, which had perhaps the most falsely optimistic title in publishing history: Case Closed.
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