Product Description

This vividly written probe of the Kennedy assassination, internationally acclaimed when first published, has been massively revised and updated. It includes the revelations resulting from recent releases of documents long withheld by US intelligence agencies. The author produces fresh information on the deceptions of the CIA; Oswald's trip to Mexico City shortly before the assassination; new information on nefarious activity in New Orleans; the botched autopsy of the President's body.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127165 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 501 pages

Review
'Superb investigative disciplines...and so readable' - Norman Mailer 'A fine achievement - reveals a honeycomb of CIA deceit and corruption' - Sunday Times 'A compelling look at JFK'S assassination and the alleged conspiracy' - GOOD BOOK GUIDE

Sunday Times
* 'A fine achievement reveals a honeycomb of CIA deceit and corruption'

About the Author
Anthony Summers gained his degree at Oxford and joined the BBC. He covered the wars in Vietnam and the Middle East and smuggled cameras into the Soviet Union to interview Andrei Sakharov when he won the Nobel prize. Married with 2 sons, he now lives in Ireland in an ex-ferryman's cottage by the river Blackwater.

Customer Reviews

The definitive, objective guide to the JFK conundrum
Anthony Summers has the rare ability to calmly elicit, analyse and critique the still-growing mass of evidence surrounding the assassination of JFK. The book works superbly on many levels - as a detective story, as a comment on the theory of conspiracy and not least as an absorbing enquiry into deceit on every level. Summers tables courtroom evidence that the murder was indeed a conspiracy and he will shake many preconceptions about how Lee Harvey Oswald may have been involved. Essential.

The pinnacle of all JFK conspiracy research
As a lifelong reader of american history and particularly JFK conspiracy books and also one of the few people to have actually read all 26 volumes of the warren report, (I don't recommend this task!)I have to say that to this day nobody has written such a detailed and cohesive account of what might have happened in Dallas in 1963 as Anthony Summers. Many books propound theories and what might have beens, many claim a solution to the riddle but discard contradictory evidence. All lose the thrust of a main thesis somewhere in the labyrinth of evidence. But though this book was written many years ago now, it is still without a shadow of a doubt the most lucid and detailed account of the mystery surrounding the death of JFK. Summers was an excellent journalist and wordsmith, it shows to tremendous effect in this book. To take on such a mammoth plethora of fact, half truth, out and out bullshit, detail, documents and witness interviews that constitute the assassination of JFK is a huge task. Many have tried and few have succeeded in making a good account of it all. Summers work has never been surpassed for clarity and credibility. He does not go for sensationalism, just the facts. Personally i believe every word of it, and so did the HSCA. Read this book, its probably the closest thing to a solution to the case as we will ever have.

THE definitive guide
This is the best book on the JFK assasination I have come across. It is well written, informative and well researched - this guy really knows his stuff. Whether you have read a lot about the murder, or this is your first book I would highly recommend it.