Deep Politics and the Death of JFKPeter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective—that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes—Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies. Scott offers a disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedy's death, and of the "structural defects" within the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the lone assassin theory and the investigations undertaken by the House Committee on Assassinations, and unearths new connections between Oswald, Ruby, and corporate and law enforcement forces. Revisiting the controversy popularized in Oliver Stone's movie JFK, Scott probes the link between Kennedy's assassination and the escalation of the U.S. commitment in Vietnam that followed two days later. He contends that Kennedy's plans to withdraw troops from Vietnam—offensive to a powerful anti-Kennedy military and political coalition—were secretly annulled when Johnson came to power. The split between JFK and his Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the collaboration between Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police in 1963, are two of the several missing pieces Scott adds to the puzzle of who killed Kennedy and why. Scott presses for a new investigation of the Kennedy assassination, not as an external conspiracy but as a power shift within the subterranean world of American politics. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK shatters our notions of one of the central events of the twentieth century. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
9 AH agent alleged Alpha 66 American Angleton anti-Castro anti-Communist army intelligence Bedford Wynne Blakey and Billings Blakey's Bringuier Carlos Carlos Marcello Castro Chapter Chicago chief CIA-Mafia CIA's Civello Clint Murchison Communist connection conspiracy Coup Crime and Cover-Up Cuba Dallas Dallas police deep political drug Edgar Hoover files FPCC Gentry Giancana heroin Hoffa Wars House Committee Ibid interview investigation involved Jack Ruby John Jones Kennedy assassination Kennedy's killed later Lee Harvey Oswald linking Mafia Mafioso Marcello Marina Martino McWillie memo Messick Mexico City Meyer Lansky Moldea Murchison murder narcotics Nixon November 22 NSAM operations organized crime organized-crime Orleans Partin Plot President Report rifle Robert Kennedy role Rosselli Ruby's Scott Secret Service Senate Siragusa Somoza Soviet Standard Fruit story syndicate Teamsters tion told Trafficante traffickers U.S. government Vietnam Warren Commission Washington Watergate William Wynne Yaras York
Popular passages
Page xvi - Zapruder film also answered that mystery, for it "shows the President turning his body far around to the right as he waves to someone in the crowd. His throat is exposed to the sniper's nest just before he clutches it.