Joan Mellen's book on the JFK Assassination MUST READING !

[EVDebs]

http://joanmellen.net/

A Farewell to Justice
Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History

AUTHOR: JOAN MELLEN

From the new evidence in the National Archives' JFK Assassination Records Collection and interviews with over one thousand people, author Joan Mellen in her comprehensive new book A FAREWELL TO JUSTICE demonstrates how the cover-up began in Louisiana months before President Kennedy was shot in Dallas.


Biographer Joan Mellen met New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in 1969. His relentless search for the truth about what happened to President Kennedy made a deep impression upon her. In 1997, Mellen started to work on the story of Garrison's life.

Her biography turned into the story of Garrison's investigation and then into a new investigation of the assassination itself.


Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s murder.

Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing President Kennedy. A FAREWELL TO JUSTICE reveals that Oswald was no Marxist and was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with U.S. Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison’s investigation reached the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Garrison interviewed various individuals involved in the assassination, ranging from Clay Shaw and CIA contract employee David Ferrie to a Marine cohort of Oswald named Kerry Thornley, who was also a Defense Intelligence asset. Garrison’s suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, who speaks openly here for the first time.

Building upon Garrison’s effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies’ roles in both a president’s assassination and its cover-up, set in motion well before the actual events of November 22, 1963.


This book will become a landmark. As Mellen explains in the Preface, on the 40th Anniversary of President Kennedy's death in 2003, a Gallup Poll verified that twice as many people believed that the CIA was responsible for the assassination as believed that Oswald, a man without a motive, acted alone.

[NanceGreggs]

1. Thanks for the heads-up!

Always looking for a GREAT READ, especially over the Christmas holidays.

[murielm99]

2. Thanks for the heads-up.

I followed the Garrison investigation when I was in college, in the late sixties.

I always wondered why Oliver Stone, who tried to show Garrison's work in his movie, was met with such widespread ridicule. It seemed like every comedian and every half-witted columnist in the country had it in for Stone. It was so strong, it seemed almost planned. The movie was not that bad.

[AValdoux]

3. I've always said to solve a crime...

...ask who benefitted. Why the Mafia, they had the goods (women) on JFK if they wanted to ruin him politically. Castro/Cubans would probabaly rather deal with Kennedy than Johnson. The obvious answer would be "who wanted Johnson in office". The anti-communist pro-war military industrial complex.


AValdoux

[K-W]

5. I thought it was to always blame the left. EOM

[FreedomAngel82]

22. No silly

It's Clinton's fault! :sarcasm: :eyes:

[VOX]

7. Exactly. Not the least of which was Brown & Root, now Halliburton...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1569483
Halliburton Deals Recall Vietnam-Era Controversy
Cheney's Ties to Company Reminiscent of LBJ's Relationships
by John Burnett
<snip>
After Johnson took over the Oval Office, Brown & Root won contracts for huge construction projects for the federal government. By the mid-1960s, newspaper columnists and the Republican minority in Congress began to suggest that the company's good luck was tied to its sizable contributions to Johnson's political campaign.

More questions were raised when a consortium of which Brown & Root was a part won a $380 million contract to build airports, bases, hospitals and other facilities for the U.S. Navy in South Vietnam. By 1967, the General Accounting Office had faulted the "Vietnam builders" -- as they were known -- for massive accounting lapses and allowing thefts of materials.

<snip>

[EVDebs]

12. Cam Rahn Bay ... mentioned in Oliver Stone's JFK Costner's speech at end

of the film.

[indepat]

4. I've Garrison's book somewhere in the house, but have not read: it's time

to read both Mellen's and Garrison's book.

[LanternWaste]

11. damned riveting reading...

Garrison's book, though a door stop, is damned riveting reading and not the slog-fest, reading-chore one might think.

In fact, "On the Trail of the Assasin's" is part and parcel of the triad of reading material that took me from being an 'Alex P. Keaton' republican to the secular liberal I am today.

[indepat]

13. Gotta find that book: acquired some 300 books in 2004, read about 30, but

Garrison's should have been on the reading list.

[EVDebs]

14. Warren Report, and lack of an index is what got Mae Brussel started

http://www.maebrussell.com/About%20Mae%20Brussell/About%20Mae%20Brussell.html

"By the time President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 Mae was married with five kids and living in Southern California. Like many Americans, she wasn't convinced that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, so she bought the 26-volume Warren Commission Hearings and began reading, filing, and cross-indexing. With the massive addition of books, articles, and government documents, Mae not only found connections to the CIA and Germany, but began to see relationships to many other current and past events throughout the world."

She uncovered Operation Paperclip, and many of the White Russian Dallas emigres who smeared Oswald in the Warren Report...

A 'smoking gun' or what ?

[mistertrickster]

6. Interesting theory. But it's hard to argue against the fact that Oswald

a marine trained to shoot brought an Italian military rifle with him to work that day.

That same rifle hit a moving target simulation three for three by a gunsmith named Donahue in a CBS 60 Minutes test.

[EVDebs]

16. ...bought through traceable mail order. Look here ! Look here !

Why not just buy a rifle with cash...untraceable. And Mrs. Paine's garage.

[mistertrickster]

18. Well, he did use an alias . . . but I agree that this case has a lot of

weird coincidences. Like why was Oswald and wife Marina buddy-buddy with the Paines? Mr. Paine's father worked on secret military projects. Hmmm . . .

edited for typos

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

19. there's also a slightly tortuous route to Allen Dulles as well through

his mistress and (I think) Michael Paine's mum.

For my money, George De Mohrenschildt's one of the most interesting assassination characters. He's such a bastard for killing himself when he did. Have you read his unpublished manuscript I Am a Patsy! I Am a Patsy!? (If not, it's an exhibit in the HSCA report which is available online.)

[HereSince1628]

8. Whoa. I am a J Mellen, the subject line just gave me whiplash.

[tx_dem41]

9. One big problem when you rely on Jim Garrison......

Why did he never seriously investigate the obvious local Mafia connections? The scuttlebutt in my hometown of New Orleans is that he was bought and paid for by the Marcello crime family. I, in fact, sat next to the man one night at LaLouisiane, the Marcello-owned restaurant in the French Quarter. He was being treated like royalty.

[EVDebs]

15. Connick too ? n/t

[tx_dem41]

17. Not so sure about Connick.

Let's just say that Marcello never was prosecuted by the local government. I think it took the Feds to finally go after him.

[screembloodymurder]

10. Heard her on Coast to Coast last night.

Very compelling.

[DemonFighterLives]

20. Thanks, I may need to get this book

:dem:

[FreedomAngel82]

21. I'll have to find that book

Do you have to order it or can you find it at any book store?