Reply #64: I would recommend reading "Farewell America" for the bigger picture....

[AntiFascist]

http://www.amazon.com/Farewell-America-Plot-Kill-JFK/dp/1883955327/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195865721&sr=8-1

Supposedly written by those behind Robert Kennedy's investigation as well as French and other foreign intelligence, and you might want to read through the reviews and blurbs about the book. This book was originally published in France, and it supposedly was to be used to promote Robert Kennedy's run for president. After Robert Kennedy's assassination the book's US distribution was cut off. It tends to blame "The Establishment" for JFK's assassination with themes that are all too familiar to DUers and fans of Octafish's posts.

"...but its U.S. distribution was rapidly curtailed after RFK's death. The authors ("James Hepburn" is a pseudonym) conducted clandestine research among KGB and Interpol agents and French petroleum espionage specialists and relied on a rare, unmodified print of the famed Zapruder film. The book seethes with aggrieved passion in defending the Kennedys and their ideals, and seeks to defrock the "lone gunman" theory of JFK's assassination. Most of the text is a damning jeremiad, portraying pre-1964 America as a vicious, discriminatory oligarchy controlled by alliances of Big Steel and Big Oil, the military and organized crime, which all had reason to fear JFK's proposed reforms."

"It shows how the Status Quo is protected by the Big Bankers, Big Lawyers, Big Military, Big Business, etc. And it's NOT a coincidence that The Warren Commission had men from all of these big "establishments" protecting their respective establishments."

"President Kennedy wanted peace with the Soviets and Cuba. The CIA, The Military, The Mafia, and the Anti Castro Cuban exiles despised him for that. They wanted war, even if it meant a nuclear war."

"This book was CENSORED for many years. That alone is reason to read it. Basically it tries to say that big OIL did him in."

"This book could not be distributed in the US at the time it was published in Europe for obvious reasons: the author had seen a copy of the Zapruder film, which contradicts fundamentally the `findings' of the Warren Commission. The Zapruder film was not publicly available at the time."


"Perhaps it's "dated", but that's what makes it all the more valuable a document historically.
And indeed it is, as Bobby and Jackie secretly cooperated with the writing of "Farewell America"...

No WONDER you couldn't get it here for 40 years! It must have SOME validity!"

"The fact that this book was researched and written so close to the time that the assassination and 'coverup' happened is the most compelling reason for reading Farewell America."