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JFK - an American Coup: The Truth Behind the Kennedy Assassination by John Hughes-Wilson (2013) Hardcover
In 1963, and the idea that the President of the United States could be gunned down in broad daylight was almost unbelievable. In America men and women wept openly in the streets for their dead leader. But events soon began to unpick the original version of what happened. It turned out that theaofficial report was little more than a crude government whitewash designed to hide the real truth. Even American Presidents admitted as much. President Nixon memorably confessed in private that the Warren Report was the biggest hoax ever perpetuated on the American public. It began to emerge that maybe Lee Harvey Oswald, the original one nut gunman, may not have acted on his own; others were involved, too. That meant no lone gunman, but a conspiracy. This book attempts to answer the big who really shot JFK? And, more important still, exactly why was he shot? John Hughes-Wilson argues that the murder of John Kennedy was, like the murder of Julius Caesar 2,000ayears before, nothing less than a bloody coup dOCO(r)tat by his political enemies, a conspiracy hell bent on removing a leader who was threatening the power and the money of the ruling establishment. Pointing the finger at Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Mafia, John joins Jackie and Bobby Kennedy in their conclusion that the assassination of JFK was far more complex than a deranged attack by Lee Harvey Oswald, the 24-year-old ex-Marine."
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November 21, 2014
One of the more interesting and acceptable of the 'truth behind the Kennedy assassination' books that were published to coincide with the 50th anniversary in 2013. I gave it three stars, I liked it for the broad stroke overview of the history, and agreeing to condemn the same forces responsible for the killing as I do. Perhaps this is close to a four star read for those with a casual interest in the case.
Colonel John Hughes-Wilson is a former British Intelligence Officer who may well like his Martini shaken and not stirred. However, the Bibliography shows that he has done his homework. 'JFK An American Coup D'Etat' is a five part work that comprehensively covers the political ground surrounding the Kennedy White House. Although there are the odd factual errors, and clearly the author writes on the backs of past research, my main complaint is the lack of Notes in the book, although these are available on-line.
I would have been interested in a 'spooks' take on 'Harvey & Lee' by John Armstrong, but that is not listed in the Biblio. We know Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and E. Howard Hunt were around the action in Dealey Plaza, (although they couldn't remember) but this is the first time I've come across Yitzhak Rabin attending the 'Big Event'.
A well presented synopsis of the conspiracy, the factions and participants and the very many skeletons still hidden in the American political cupboard.
Colonel John Hughes-Wilson is a former British Intelligence Officer who may well like his Martini shaken and not stirred. However, the Bibliography shows that he has done his homework. 'JFK An American Coup D'Etat' is a five part work that comprehensively covers the political ground surrounding the Kennedy White House. Although there are the odd factual errors, and clearly the author writes on the backs of past research, my main complaint is the lack of Notes in the book, although these are available on-line.
I would have been interested in a 'spooks' take on 'Harvey & Lee' by John Armstrong, but that is not listed in the Biblio. We know Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush and E. Howard Hunt were around the action in Dealey Plaza, (although they couldn't remember) but this is the first time I've come across Yitzhak Rabin attending the 'Big Event'.
A well presented synopsis of the conspiracy, the factions and participants and the very many skeletons still hidden in the American political cupboard.
January 11, 2017
The assassination of John F.Kennedy was the foundational text of American postmodernist fiction. It gave it all, and it still gives: secret power elites with their invisible networks of bag-men and muscle-men scuttling around beneath the eyeless crystalline towers of glass and steel in the plasterboard cities of cheap-suit salesmen working for ex-bootleggers out of the back of some dime-an-hour carwash outfit next door to OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE while out in the fields there's the old Army airbases erased from the map but still each one a nexus for Special Ops and Black Ops and nameless men training to kill, kill, kill. This is where it all begins, in between the doctored frames of the cinefilm footage that the entire staff of Life Magazine couldn't quite destroy - it's the rupture, the absence of meaning, the absence of the sense of an absence, observe the observer observed. November 22nd was when US history became Naked Lunch.
Hughes-Wilson gets us through the main details with minimum fuss, also no editing or much fact-checking of non-secret matters such as whether Peter Sellers actually played Jack D.Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove" (page 11). It's a repetitive, fractured text with an unreliable index. The racist right-wing loon Joseph Milteer is cited as appearing on pages 251-2, but page 252 is blank - how did the guy pull *that* stunt?? And he's one of the bigshots who knows what's going down, months in advance. "Latin tempers" are cited as a contributory factor in those pesky Cuban footsoldiers deciding to turn their guns around and fire in the other direction. But we get to meet again all the good ol' boys of the assassination circuit: Sam Giancana, Guy Bannister, Dave Ferrie with his fake eyebrows, The Three Tramps, Lee Harvey Oswald (both of them), Jack Ruby, and also a diverse selection of penumbral figures in the JFK story: Lawrence Olivier, Bertrand Russell, Angie Dickinson. Jack was crap in bed, and also hitting the drugs big-time even when he was in the White House. It's a wonder he didn't make William S.Burroughs his Secretary Of State, or at least invite him to give one of those classy lectures he used to have put on specially for the Kennedy clan.
As for new revelations, JHW seems quite taken with the idea of "the Jewish lobby" being powerful in American politics, a thought he doesn't contextualise with any timeline of how it all changed between the Suez crisis of 1956 and the Six Day War of 1967. He doesn't consider that JFK might simply have changed his mind about policy toward Israel, as he'd already done with other major issues such as Cuba, Vietnam and the USSR. He also bizarrely thinks that "anti-segregationists in the Deep South" (pg 305) are amongst the groups with anti-JFK grudges, but that's probably a typo. Still, it is interesting to hear that a plan to kill Castro was rolling along at the same time as the invasion was scrapped and efforts at a rapprochement were commencing. JHW is quite convinced that "Uncle Cornpone" (Bobby's unaffectionate nickname for LBJ) was at the centre of things, even if he didn't initiate or control it, and maybe even Governor Connolly knew what was going down, and didn't want to be in the death ride. It's all over and filed away now, and if you want to feel it over again maybe the best books are "Dreamerika!" by Alan Burns and "Nocturnal Vaudeville" by Stephen Schneck.
Hughes-Wilson gets us through the main details with minimum fuss, also no editing or much fact-checking of non-secret matters such as whether Peter Sellers actually played Jack D.Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove" (page 11). It's a repetitive, fractured text with an unreliable index. The racist right-wing loon Joseph Milteer is cited as appearing on pages 251-2, but page 252 is blank - how did the guy pull *that* stunt?? And he's one of the bigshots who knows what's going down, months in advance. "Latin tempers" are cited as a contributory factor in those pesky Cuban footsoldiers deciding to turn their guns around and fire in the other direction. But we get to meet again all the good ol' boys of the assassination circuit: Sam Giancana, Guy Bannister, Dave Ferrie with his fake eyebrows, The Three Tramps, Lee Harvey Oswald (both of them), Jack Ruby, and also a diverse selection of penumbral figures in the JFK story: Lawrence Olivier, Bertrand Russell, Angie Dickinson. Jack was crap in bed, and also hitting the drugs big-time even when he was in the White House. It's a wonder he didn't make William S.Burroughs his Secretary Of State, or at least invite him to give one of those classy lectures he used to have put on specially for the Kennedy clan.
As for new revelations, JHW seems quite taken with the idea of "the Jewish lobby" being powerful in American politics, a thought he doesn't contextualise with any timeline of how it all changed between the Suez crisis of 1956 and the Six Day War of 1967. He doesn't consider that JFK might simply have changed his mind about policy toward Israel, as he'd already done with other major issues such as Cuba, Vietnam and the USSR. He also bizarrely thinks that "anti-segregationists in the Deep South" (pg 305) are amongst the groups with anti-JFK grudges, but that's probably a typo. Still, it is interesting to hear that a plan to kill Castro was rolling along at the same time as the invasion was scrapped and efforts at a rapprochement were commencing. JHW is quite convinced that "Uncle Cornpone" (Bobby's unaffectionate nickname for LBJ) was at the centre of things, even if he didn't initiate or control it, and maybe even Governor Connolly knew what was going down, and didn't want to be in the death ride. It's all over and filed away now, and if you want to feel it over again maybe the best books are "Dreamerika!" by Alan Burns and "Nocturnal Vaudeville" by Stephen Schneck.
March 2, 2018
This is an easy read even for someone unfamiliar with the JFK assassination. I would classify this as infotainment because nothing is cited, so it would be impossible to distinguish what is based on the bibliography in the back and what is based on the author's own conclusions. He does talk about the assassination very succinctly. Many books on this topic can get lost in a web of conspiracies. The author does a good job trying to tie them together. The editing needs work as there were quite a few blatant errors, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.
October 28, 2023
Those who have read a significant number of the seriously researched books on the JFK assassination, which are now plenty, will be familiar with a glaring commonality in the literature: almost none explain the assassination as a coherent whole. JFK: An American Coup d’Etat, by contrast, is comprehensive in scope and even levels allegations at less familiar targets. Unfortunately, it does not appear as strenuously researched as those dealing with specific aspects of the assassination. The book relies almost entirely on secondary source material, featuring a short bibliography in three sections: “Books,” “Useful articles” and “Reports.” The “Reports” section is divided into “Government reports and documents” (it lists five) and “Government documents held at the National Archives and records Service, College Park, MD” (three).
The cover of the paperback edition says: “Fifty years on a former British intelligence officer reveals the truth behind the greatest conspiracy of all time.” The book then proceeds to completely slime every major player in the story. The Kennedys come in for particular scorn, so that one is left with the sense that, yes, this whole affair was a triumph of evil, but then JFK deserved what he got (as did his brother after him), so there’s a kind of “cruel justice” about it all.
The one-page section entitled “A Note on the Sources” begins with this paragraph:
The blog is still active at the time of this writing. The visitor can judge for him or herself how "extensive" it is as a list of sources on the JFK assassination.
People are certainly entitled to their opinions of America, which is after all another human experiment in statehood and governance. It’s certainly possible to level valid criticism at the America, and in fact that would have been a very interesting perspective from which to approach the assassination itself. Personally, I’ve long thought that the JFK assassination was a consequence of flaws in America's republican system, which has made me instinctively more “constitutional monarchist” over the years. Not only don’t we see many assassinations of heads of state in constitutional monarchies (the head of state being the monarch), but we don’t see the kind of barbarism on display in the JFK assassination perpetrated against heads of government (prime ministers) much either. Shortly before JFK was murdered, the assassination of another powerful republican head of state – Charles De Gaulle – was attempted in France. It’s my sense that the American republican system, for all its virtues, has bred violence and fear in the general public. In November 1963 we saw a kind of culmination of that violence and fear at the highest level.
Colonel Hughes-Wilson could have done a serious piece of work discussing that phenomenon, but instead chose to write a cheap hit piece. The two-sentence first paragraph of the prologue reads: “The group of worthies that gathered in the freezing cold on Capitol Hill on 21 January 1961 was arguably one of the biggest public assemblies of crooks seen in years. Even by Washington DC’s standards.” At least he gets his sentiments toward America out in the open right away.
LBJ is repeatedly referred to as a “mason,” even though there is nothing in his biography to suggest he got involved in masonic activity beyond his first initiation as a young man (very common in America). The inclusion of the Israeli government as a serious culprit among the conspirators is based mostly on the theory that, because Israel in the early 1960s was actively developing nuclear weapons capability and JFK opposed this on non-proliferation grounds, the Israeli prime minister – at that time Labor Party leader David Ben-Gurion – resigned from office and actively conspired and helped to bump JFK off. Once LBJ (credibly a chief conspirator in the assassination and cover-up) was sworn in as president, the White House would not obstruct Israel’s goal of a nuclear-armed Jewish state.
Ben-Gurion’s means of implementing the assassination of a “sworn enemy of Israel” (i.e. JFK) was Mossad, according to this author, operating through a company called Permindex.
Israel certainly had the motive, from this perspective, but why can’t we see the sources? Obviously Kennedy was an inconvenience to Israeli nuclear ambitions, and in fact Jefferson Morley’s The Ghost, a biography of former CIA Counterintelligence Staff Chief James Jesus Angleton, does point to Israel’s acquisition of highly-enriched uranium from the US having been quickly facilitated in the 1960s by Angleton following Kennedy’s death (there are now at least two memorials to Angleton in Israel). But Hughes-Wilson takes this all much further on the basis, apparently, of Mossad’s unspecified “links with a company called Permindex.” Why can’t we detail these “links”?
The book gets three stars purely for offering a coherent “whole” in explaining the assassination. As noted, that is rare. The Colonel may have made a bit more money from this than he would have with a heavily footnoted work with lots of primary sources, and one gets much the same sense from Roger Stone’s The Man Who Killed Kennedy, which is similarly pulpy and became a New York Times bestseller. Despite the credible take-down of Lyndon Johnson it effects, Stone’s book still looks and feels cheap.
Sadly because of its style and presentation, JFK: An American Coup d’Etat does little if anything to advance the cause of gaining broader acceptance for the “conspiracy theory” of JFK’s murder as being on the side of respectability and virtue. Because of that, we are left wondering what side of this debate Colonel John Hughes-Wilson is really on.
The cover of the paperback edition says: “Fifty years on a former British intelligence officer reveals the truth behind the greatest conspiracy of all time.” The book then proceeds to completely slime every major player in the story. The Kennedys come in for particular scorn, so that one is left with the sense that, yes, this whole affair was a triumph of evil, but then JFK deserved what he got (as did his brother after him), so there’s a kind of “cruel justice” about it all.
The one-page section entitled “A Note on the Sources” begins with this paragraph:
Because many of the topics I have written about in this book are not only highly contentious but will undoubtedly provoke indignant challenges, I am compelled to weary the readers with extensive indications of my sources, so that the reader may rest assured that even what appears to be the least credible part of the narrative is securely rooted in contemporary records, archived documentation, or secondary sources which have been broadly accepted as fact. The full notes are available online at www.jfkcoupdetat.wordpress.com.
The blog is still active at the time of this writing. The visitor can judge for him or herself how "extensive" it is as a list of sources on the JFK assassination.
People are certainly entitled to their opinions of America, which is after all another human experiment in statehood and governance. It’s certainly possible to level valid criticism at the America, and in fact that would have been a very interesting perspective from which to approach the assassination itself. Personally, I’ve long thought that the JFK assassination was a consequence of flaws in America's republican system, which has made me instinctively more “constitutional monarchist” over the years. Not only don’t we see many assassinations of heads of state in constitutional monarchies (the head of state being the monarch), but we don’t see the kind of barbarism on display in the JFK assassination perpetrated against heads of government (prime ministers) much either. Shortly before JFK was murdered, the assassination of another powerful republican head of state – Charles De Gaulle – was attempted in France. It’s my sense that the American republican system, for all its virtues, has bred violence and fear in the general public. In November 1963 we saw a kind of culmination of that violence and fear at the highest level.
Colonel Hughes-Wilson could have done a serious piece of work discussing that phenomenon, but instead chose to write a cheap hit piece. The two-sentence first paragraph of the prologue reads: “The group of worthies that gathered in the freezing cold on Capitol Hill on 21 January 1961 was arguably one of the biggest public assemblies of crooks seen in years. Even by Washington DC’s standards.” At least he gets his sentiments toward America out in the open right away.
LBJ is repeatedly referred to as a “mason,” even though there is nothing in his biography to suggest he got involved in masonic activity beyond his first initiation as a young man (very common in America). The inclusion of the Israeli government as a serious culprit among the conspirators is based mostly on the theory that, because Israel in the early 1960s was actively developing nuclear weapons capability and JFK opposed this on non-proliferation grounds, the Israeli prime minister – at that time Labor Party leader David Ben-Gurion – resigned from office and actively conspired and helped to bump JFK off. Once LBJ (credibly a chief conspirator in the assassination and cover-up) was sworn in as president, the White House would not obstruct Israel’s goal of a nuclear-armed Jewish state.
Ben-Gurion’s means of implementing the assassination of a “sworn enemy of Israel” (i.e. JFK) was Mossad, according to this author, operating through a company called Permindex.
Not only did the Jews of America support Israel and could be relied on to rally against any threat to their spiritual homeland, there were other powerful forces that could be mobilised to oppose any threat to Israel. Israel’s secret service, Mossad, had links with a company called Permindex. Permindex’s darker side was revealed in 1962 after it was uncovered shoveling money to the OAS and paying for assassination attempts on de Gaulle in an attempt to prevent Algerian independence. The plots failed and de Gaulle ran Permindex and its Mossad bankers out of France. In Canada the company now provided Mossad with a safe haven from which it could influence events and orchestrate any counter attack on anti-Israeli interests in the USA.
Israel certainly had the motive, from this perspective, but why can’t we see the sources? Obviously Kennedy was an inconvenience to Israeli nuclear ambitions, and in fact Jefferson Morley’s The Ghost, a biography of former CIA Counterintelligence Staff Chief James Jesus Angleton, does point to Israel’s acquisition of highly-enriched uranium from the US having been quickly facilitated in the 1960s by Angleton following Kennedy’s death (there are now at least two memorials to Angleton in Israel). But Hughes-Wilson takes this all much further on the basis, apparently, of Mossad’s unspecified “links with a company called Permindex.” Why can’t we detail these “links”?
The book gets three stars purely for offering a coherent “whole” in explaining the assassination. As noted, that is rare. The Colonel may have made a bit more money from this than he would have with a heavily footnoted work with lots of primary sources, and one gets much the same sense from Roger Stone’s The Man Who Killed Kennedy, which is similarly pulpy and became a New York Times bestseller. Despite the credible take-down of Lyndon Johnson it effects, Stone’s book still looks and feels cheap.
Sadly because of its style and presentation, JFK: An American Coup d’Etat does little if anything to advance the cause of gaining broader acceptance for the “conspiracy theory” of JFK’s murder as being on the side of respectability and virtue. Because of that, we are left wondering what side of this debate Colonel John Hughes-Wilson is really on.
May 9, 2020
Jfk An American Coup
Have read a lot of books about the JFK assassination, Oswald and JD Tippet. I feel that the author gives the information, evidence and theory in a very straight forward, readable form. Learned a lot of things I did not know previously. What I really appreciated about this book is it did not get bogged down in alternate theories, Operational acronyms and throwing in a lot of minutia that either confuses the reader or makes you pray that you could get finished with the book and find something else. I have read a lot of 800 to 900 pages books where the authors were trying to be thorough and back up their information. John Hughes Wilson gets it covered in 350 pages maximum. His background in intelligence I feel has helped him convey the important facts without getting lost in the forest for the trees. Kudos to the author. Great book.
Have read a lot of books about the JFK assassination, Oswald and JD Tippet. I feel that the author gives the information, evidence and theory in a very straight forward, readable form. Learned a lot of things I did not know previously. What I really appreciated about this book is it did not get bogged down in alternate theories, Operational acronyms and throwing in a lot of minutia that either confuses the reader or makes you pray that you could get finished with the book and find something else. I have read a lot of 800 to 900 pages books where the authors were trying to be thorough and back up their information. John Hughes Wilson gets it covered in 350 pages maximum. His background in intelligence I feel has helped him convey the important facts without getting lost in the forest for the trees. Kudos to the author. Great book.
November 22, 2020
What an EXCELLENT amalgamation of the facts. This is the second book I've read that draws the same conclusion, but most JFK assassination books, while they may be researched well (anyone with a thinking brain knows Oswald didn't do it), they focus on one team or members of a specific team, specific members. Think of the assassination as a spider with three legs. This book puts it all together nicely. From what I understand the information on Marilyn Monroe is rehashed disinformation but that's not the focus of the book.
The JFK assassination was a seminal moment in history and changed not only the U.S., but the world for the foreseeable future. Beware the military industrial complex. Eisenhower warned us about it, Kennedy tried to do something about it.
A MUST read!!!
The JFK assassination was a seminal moment in history and changed not only the U.S., but the world for the foreseeable future. Beware the military industrial complex. Eisenhower warned us about it, Kennedy tried to do something about it.
A MUST read!!!
June 29, 2018
Anyone interested in history and the JFK assassination should add this to their reading list. I would not end my research here (I still have doubts and questions). Some of the theories and facts presented by this author I had not discovered elsewhere...worth knowing.
March 23, 2022
Read this book
This book makes much more sense than most. It connects many dots plausibly. The shoot scene scenario may be a bit stretched but by definition it is farthest out in the blue.
This book makes much more sense than most. It connects many dots plausibly. The shoot scene scenario may be a bit stretched but by definition it is farthest out in the blue.
July 7, 2017
I somewhat randomly found myself interested in the JFK assassination, and I had previously read nothing on the subject. I wasn't interested in wacky conspiracy theories, but rather a reasonably objective look at what facts are actually known. Based on Amazon reviews, it seemed like this book was a decent option. It was not.
First, it is written shockingly poorly. Overflowing with hyperbole and cliches, it almost feels like it should be the narration to some B-level documentary, where sentences are regularly followed by a dun-dun-DUNNNNNN sound effect.
Second, the author does not document any of his source information. This is a problem because the reader can't tell the difference between conclusions based on hearsay and those based on established fact (either of which the author seems comfortable using to defend a claim). And when the reader can't tell the difference between conjecture and safe conclusion, it makes him or her doubt the veracity of any claims made by the author.
While some of the arguments in this book seemed compelling at the time of reading, it caused me to do some research to see what the "lone gunman" side had to say about it, and almost invariably I found a better argument - with sources footnoted - from the "lone gunman" camp. It's pretty impressive for a book to attempt to convince a reader of a certain theory and end up convincing that reader of the opposite.
First, it is written shockingly poorly. Overflowing with hyperbole and cliches, it almost feels like it should be the narration to some B-level documentary, where sentences are regularly followed by a dun-dun-DUNNNNNN sound effect.
Second, the author does not document any of his source information. This is a problem because the reader can't tell the difference between conclusions based on hearsay and those based on established fact (either of which the author seems comfortable using to defend a claim). And when the reader can't tell the difference between conjecture and safe conclusion, it makes him or her doubt the veracity of any claims made by the author.
While some of the arguments in this book seemed compelling at the time of reading, it caused me to do some research to see what the "lone gunman" side had to say about it, and almost invariably I found a better argument - with sources footnoted - from the "lone gunman" camp. It's pretty impressive for a book to attempt to convince a reader of a certain theory and end up convincing that reader of the opposite.
March 14, 2020
Heavy but intense and illuminating even if you are not english or american like me you can manage this lecture. Very cruel and objective on the negative side of Jfk such as clearly objective on how he managed ti disturb many "high level" people inside and outside the US that at the end combined up to kill him and ridicously covering the kill.
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Lettura un po pesante ma molto chiara e leggibile con una buona conoscenza della lingua. Un'analisi cruda dei difetti dei Kennedy ma anche di come è stato assassinato da una cospirazione ad alto livello .. di persone a cui lui aveva "pestato" i piedi e soprattutto un assissinio coperto in maniera ridicola.
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Lettura un po pesante ma molto chiara e leggibile con una buona conoscenza della lingua. Un'analisi cruda dei difetti dei Kennedy ma anche di come è stato assassinato da una cospirazione ad alto livello .. di persone a cui lui aveva "pestato" i piedi e soprattutto un assissinio coperto in maniera ridicola.
June 14, 2020
A vitally important read
One heavy book.
This has to be one of the best, if not the best, collection of facts and faces connected with the events of 22 Nov 63. And the actual nature of government is clear
Kennedy was killed because people were allowed in government who never should have been.
The next question: what are we going to do about it?
A vital read for all concerned citizens of all countries
One heavy book.
This has to be one of the best, if not the best, collection of facts and faces connected with the events of 22 Nov 63. And the actual nature of government is clear
Kennedy was killed because people were allowed in government who never should have been.
The next question: what are we going to do about it?
A vital read for all concerned citizens of all countries
July 4, 2023
Watch JFK
I admit I enjoyed reading the book. I enjoyed so much I rented the movie JFK. Haven't seen it since the 1990s. What I quickly realized is that this book is rehash of the movie. Surprised it just didn't use the movie script. Although it didn't contain the movie's secret meeting on the park bench (Costner and Sutherland) , the book and movie are quite similar . It's a fun read
I admit I enjoyed reading the book. I enjoyed so much I rented the movie JFK. Haven't seen it since the 1990s. What I quickly realized is that this book is rehash of the movie. Surprised it just didn't use the movie script. Although it didn't contain the movie's secret meeting on the park bench (Costner and Sutherland) , the book and movie are quite similar . It's a fun read
November 13, 2018
JFK Assassination Truth?
Fantastic read. Highly recommended to everyone who has a theory on who killed President Kennedy. Gripping, logical and new important information of what happened in Dealey Plaza
Fantastic read. Highly recommended to everyone who has a theory on who killed President Kennedy. Gripping, logical and new important information of what happened in Dealey Plaza
July 2, 2020
Outstanding overview with some new information
Comprehensive overview with some new information. Worthwhile for those who who are looking for more details and for someone looking in the alternative reality to the Warren Commission's findings.
Comprehensive overview with some new information. Worthwhile for those who who are looking for more details and for someone looking in the alternative reality to the Warren Commission's findings.
October 14, 2017
Easy to read and well structured. The cover up angle is more engaging than the actual assassination.
March 26, 2020
What we always knew!
I suspected Lyndon Johnson from day one. His hatred of JFK was always there! The Mafia, CIA, Hoover had the most to gain. How corrupt politics are.
I suspected Lyndon Johnson from day one. His hatred of JFK was always there! The Mafia, CIA, Hoover had the most to gain. How corrupt politics are.
October 24, 2020
Plausible attempt to pull the strands together and present a coherent conclusion. But doesn’t come close to the polish and scholarship of Anthony Summers’ “Not In Your Lifetime”.
April 7, 2021
Good book. Interesting theories.
April 18, 2021
Coup for sure
Great writing, some old and some new things to think about! Well researched and well paced. A joy to read highly recommend it!
Great writing, some old and some new things to think about! Well researched and well paced. A joy to read highly recommend it!
June 22, 2021
Amazing Read
Still hard to believe something like this would happen! After all the books in this subject that I have read, this one is amazing! Suspected LBJ all along!!!
Still hard to believe something like this would happen! After all the books in this subject that I have read, this one is amazing! Suspected LBJ all along!!!
June 25, 2023
2.5/3
December 25, 2023
An excellent book which covers the pitfalls in the famous assassination. How the recently released papers have thrown more light on the events. Sometimes I feel people can be so ruthless.
July 13, 2024
Well researched, mind-blowing book.
April 20, 2025
Arduous and tedious.
November 28, 2025
I have read deeply into this subject and there is a LOT of detail in here that I have not seen before.
WELL WORTH A READ.
WELL WORTH A READ.
December 30, 2019
Pretty good; at least it doesn't have major errors.
June 4, 2023
Regardless of your knowledge on the JFK assassination, this is easy to follow. An in-depth look at all the factors, political and otherwise, that were at play to help give perspective to the "mystery" of 11/22/63.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 26, 2014
It seems every time there is a new theory about the events of late 1963 I believe it to be the definitive account and adjust my opinion accordingly until the next documentary takes the diametrically opposite view. Over the past few years I have been convinced that the assassination was the work of a lone nutter, a man dressed as a policeman on the grassy knoll and more recently by the accidental discharge of a security serviceman's rifle from a following car in the motorcade. Was Kennedy shot from the back 3 times by Lee or were there 7 shots from different places from 3 separate groups of killers - none of them called Oswald? The cover picture of this exhaustive account suggests LBJ himself was not entirely ignorant of what was about to happen to the man whose heart only needed to stop beating for the Big Texan to usurp his position and escape almost certain jail. If only Shakespeare were around to sort out the definitive play we could all relax. Mind you, even he got Richard III all wrong (see review of Josephine Tey's "The Daughter of Time"). This excellent book raises many questions and delves into the tangled world of Cuban Rebels, Mafioso bosses, Israeli nuclear plans, CIA criminality and a convenient communist former US marine who might just take the entire blame if he can be silenced.
September 9, 2014
This book brings together all the facts behind the 'conspiracy culture' around the Kennedy assassination and weaves them into a single narrative that reads like a Tom Clancy thriller. Starting with the cover up of the murder of Marilyn Monroe (just to demonstrate how the 'powers that be' could conduct a whitewash on this scale, and then leading us through the long list of Kennedy's enemies, including a long list of lethal enemies in the Cuban exiles, the Mafia, the military-industrial complex and even Wall Street to the nuts and bolts of the assassination itself in Dallas. This book names names - right down to the identity of the man most likely to have fired the lethal 'head shot' from the Grassy Knoll. Essential reading for anyone interested in the Kennedy assassination on modern American history in general
September 1, 2016
John Hughes Wilson brings his British intelligence experience to bear . He explores all the different claims . Great book
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