False Witness: The Real Story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's Film JFK

Patricia Lambert

Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 352 pagine

This is, for the first time in its entirety, the story of the arrest and trial of Clay Shaw, charged with conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Headline news internationally for almost three years in the late 1960s, the whole investigation was eventually uncovered as a fraud and a set-up. Then, in 1990, Oliver Stone's movie JFK was released starring Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison, hero and patriot -- and all the lies that enthralled the world in this case were told again.

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FALSE WITNESS: The Real Story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's Film JFK

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Revisionist history confronts revisionist history as the author debunks the conspiracy theory surrounding the assassination of John Kennedy that persists to this day. In March of 1967, Clay Shaw was ...

False witness: the real story of Jim Garrison's investigation and Oliver Stone's film JFK

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The national trauma that was the Kennedy assassination spawned a continuing legacy of government mistrust. Lambert presents an exciting, well-documented account of an early example of this bleak ...

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• Fraud Perpetuated: 183
• A Grand Jury Transcript Surfaces: 267
• On the Trail of the Assassins More Anomalies: 277
• Edward ODonnells Report to Jim Garrison: 287
• Notes: 325
• Select Bibliography: 333
• Acknowledgments: 335
• Index: 337

Informazioni bibliografiche

• Titolo: False Witness: The Real Story of Jim Garrison's Investigation and Oliver Stone's Film JFK
• Autore: Patricia Lambert
• Edizione: illustrata
• Editore: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000
• ISBN: 0871319209, 9780871319203
• Lunghezza: 352 pagine