Posted on 11/06/2013 5:08:32 AM PST by iowamark
James L. Swanson’s Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer was a New York Times bestseller, won the Edgar Award, and became mandatory reading for official Washington. Its fans included President George W. Bush, Speaker of the House John Boehner, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Now, for the 50th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy, Swanson returns with End of Days: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, a gripping account of the murder and its aftermath. JFK’s trip to Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 set in motion a chain of unprecedented events: a man with a rifle in the window of a tall building, the death of a president recorded on a home movie, a frenzied manhunt, multiple murders, nationwide mourning, a public funeral that rivaled Lincoln’s, and the fatal shooting of the president’s killer on live TV as a horrified audience of millions watched. End of Days recreates four of the saddest and most terrifying days in American history.
Swanson then asks larger questions. Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Why did he do it? How was the “right wing” wrongly blamed for the assassination? Who was the real John F. Kennedy – was he a closet conservative? And finally, what explains the dizzying number of conspiracy theories, and how have they undermined our faith in our institutions and democracy?
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham calls Swanson “a master” and praises End of Days as “grand narrative at its finest.”
James L. Swanson is Senior Legal Scholar in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation.
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Figure out who this man REALLY was and you cannot accept the Warren Commission Report (WCR). Ballistics and forensics have been misreported and altered.
All the arguments boil down to this man.
This WCR was assembled by partial and limited information supplied to it by the CIA, FBI, NSA and Johnson administration. Of course it was incomplete and faulty. The conclusions had to fit the concept.
Any person who has read the Warren Report (How many?) and the “normal” books, understands this.
Nobody really believes that LHO was the only shooter that tragic day.
So you’re saying we should have nuked Russia just because they sent Oswald here to kill Kennedy?
The KGB won that round. Maybe were smart to accept it.
JFK was more of a threat to so many different elements inside the US, the Soviets did not have to make the hit.
One of the key persons in figuring out who fielded Oswald was (he committed suicide just before testifying before the House Subcommittee on Assassinations, (HSCA) in 1978, was George de Mohrenschildt.
This individual is one of the key persons that actually survived so late, into the late 1970’s. The rest were knocked off. Look up de Morenschildt and you begin to understand how evil this whole thing was.
Sorry FRiend, but Oswald was a Commie. He did it by himself. There was no conspiracy.
I read “Manhunt” and found it incredibly well-written, so I most definitely will want this book. Hope it’s on Books-a-Million, though, as I avoid dealing with Amazon.
OK, whatever. I won’t get into a arugment with you here but can I ask you a question?
Why, would a minor underworld figure, like Jack Ruby silence Oswald before he could talk? The Mob had to eliminate LHO.
Why?
“Why, would a minor underworld figure, like Jack Ruby silence Oswald before he could talk?”...............That is THE question.
My take on it from ‘reliable’ sources,....revenge for the Bay of Pigs slaughter. Gave his word he’d help, and at the last minute turned his back - and let them get slaughtered.
Oswald’s aunt, Mrs. Lillian Murret ... for whom did she work?
You’re such a fool. Such a freakin’ fool. Please go away.
What evidence is there that Jack Ruby was a “minor underworld figure?”
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My theory - and it is just that, a theory, is that the Mob hit JFK with a little inside help from the CIA and possibly the FBI.
The Kennedys turned on the Mob after the Mob helped get JFK elected (Illinois, West Virginia primary). The Mob depended on JFK to help them get back into the Cuban casinos (Nixon may have been willing as well seeing as Bay of Pigs started on his watch).
The Mob helped train Cuban expats along with Mob hit men at CIA camps in Florida and Louisiana. When Bay of Pigs went bad fast and Kennedy turned yellow on the issue of support, he turned the Mob against him and may have been on borrowed time.
When Bobby started going after the Mob hard and high profile, he sealed big brother’s death. After all, kill Bobby and JFK brings the weight of the government down on the mob. Kill JFK and Bobby gets sacked by LBJ who absolutely loathed Bobby.
The CIA put Oswald into the picture. The mob put Ruby in to silence Oswald.
Again, JUST a theory. I have ZERO evidence on any of this.
If you talk about Mob being inside figures, CIA/FBI...agree.
But elements within the CIA and other INTEL organization felt betrayed by JFK, from the Bay Of Pigs fiasco, not the young punk Oswald.
The Mob would go through the effort to kill Oswald who was supposedly a Communist? It does not make sense.
Apparently Oswald did everything in his power to restrain himself before he could figure out what his real position was and what he needed to do. He was never given the chance. He did not blow his cover, even after 3 days. He was waiting for something or someone to (as he requested) “...come forward and provide consul”, which they never did.
Ruby had the last option and was ordered to “rub out” Oswald, which he did.
The Communist allegations were a cover.
Why was he filmed early on, passing out “”Hands off Cuba Committee” leaflets a year before in New Orleans? It was a rouse.
OK, that’s very polite of you in this forum. You could be a little more diplomatic but I guess you’re just not there, are ya?
He was a gun runner and a low level person in the mob. He was connected to Cuban affairs and was a sleazy figure even in the 1920’s (bootlegging), 1930’s all the way through 1959, when Batista was toppled in Cuba.
One thing was known about Ruby, he knew how to keep his mouth shut and that is why he was considered a reliable hit man to take out Oswald.
Ruby had connections with the entire Dallas syndicate and Police force. That is why he had no problem entering the underground parking structure to kill Oswald. Cops were very familiar with him and he was part of the good old boys network. Hey Jack, watcha’ doin’ here”?
In addition, Ruby was present in the Dallas police HQ, the night Oswald was paraded in front of the press. When Dallas DA Henry Wade stated that Oswald was the member of a pro-Cuban committee, it was Ruby, (standing in the background) that corrected Wade by blurting out, “That's the Fair Play for Cuba Committee”. Ruby corrected Wade's mistake.
Why was Ruby there? Why did Ruby correct the DA? Why was he in the room, a short distance away from Oswald? Ruby tried to enter the interrogation rooms several times and was stopped. Why? Because he was trying to get to Oswald and kill him BEFORE he actually did, in the parking garage.
Ruby was a known quantity to the Dallas Police and the Mob. He did not kill Oswald as is stated in the Warren Report, to “spare Mrs. Kennedy and her children the anguish of a trial”.
Wake up folks, it's been 50 years.
I think it was you that I replied to on another thread on this subject. Repeating, E. Howard Hunt (possible railway tramp) and Cubans involved in Watergate. Hunt trained same Cubans for Bay of Pigs, then used them for “Dirty Tricks” stuff.
Right before the infamous gap in the Watergate tapes Nixon says something about how Watergate could “bring up the whole Cuban thing” or something similar. The tapes already talk about the dirty tricks stuff and the Bay of Pigs fiasco, so I wonder what was deleted?
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