JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters

Longer than I wished

This is a deeply disturbing book made all the more so because the reader hopes in vain that it is untrue. Over the years I had developed a hopeful scepticism that the JFK assassination conspiracy theories were all just unsupportable theories. This incredibly well researched book dashes all that hopeful scepticism. The book is a combination of first hand interviews and research into recently released documents, as well as the categorisation of the number of mysterious deaths of individuals whose eye-witness accounts defied the distorted wisdom of the local Police, FBI, CIA, Secret Service and the Warren Commission. I read the book from cover to cover only putting it down to sleep and eat over a three day period. It draws a web of conspiracy, it is superbly crafted and reads in reality just like a Frederick Forsythe novel but with an unhappy ending. In addition to eye witnesses mysteriously dying or being declared insane, relevant documents and photographs known to have existed have been disappeared, mislaid or destroyed and Douglass meticulously documents dozens upon dozens of these cases. There is no doubt in the writer's mind that the CIA engineered the assassination acting upon the orders of who knows who at the top of the tree, and then there is no doubt that the FBI covered it up and the local police colluded, however unwillingly, on the basis that if the CIA and their helpful Mafia could kill a President they surely wouldn't hesitate to shoot the odd dissenting policeman. We have all read the stories of the grassy knoll, the Texas Book Depository , the sounds of shots coming from the grassy knoll, the running gunmen, the subsequent cover-up, allusions to Oswald's CIA connections, Ruby's connection to Oswald the CIA and the Mafia. All of this is covered in detail with no stone unturned and in that sense the book is like all the others only more thorough and convincing. What this study does that others only allude to is explain `why', rather than `how' or `wha...