Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction to the Revised Edition xv
Part I The Kill Zone
Dallas-The Stage Is Set 1
The Thirty-fifth President 1
Dealey Plaza-November 22, 1963 8
The Motorcade 8
The Crowd 16
Two Suspicions Men 29
The Babushka Lady 35
The Texas School Book Depository 39
The Distracting Seizure 42
The Man in the Doorway 45
The Oswald Encounter 51
The Triple Underpass 57
Smoke on the Grassy Knoll 58
The Third Wounded Man 62
The Grassy Knoll 66
The Zapruder Film 66
The Black Dog Man 74
The Badge Man 80
A Grassy Knoll Witness 83
Part II Means, Motives, and Opportunities
Lee Harvey Oswald-Assassin or Patsy? 90
A Mother in History 90
Oswald's Library Card 98
Semper Fidelis 100
Oswald Overseas 101
Oswaldskovich the Marine 106
Russians (Soviets and Solidarists) 109
Oswald and the U-2 109
Robert E. Webster-Another Oswald? 111
A Phony Defection 112
Comrade Oswald 116
A Whirlwind Romance 119
A Soviet Defector's Story 123
Cubans (Pro- and Anti-Castro Cubans) 127
Fidel Castro 127
Disaster at the Bay of Pigs 129
544 Camp Street 138
Oswald and the Exiles 140
Oswald's Girlfriend 143
Mobsters (Organized Crime) 149
Bootleggers and Boozers 150
Lucky Goes to War 152
Carlos Marcello 154
Santos Trafficante and Cuba 158
The War on Hoffa 160
Momo and His Girlfriends 163
Agents (The CIA and Other Intelligence Agencies) 167
The Manchurian Candidates 171
CIA-Mafia Death Plots 173
New Orleans 174
The Saga of Tosh Plumlee 175
Was Oswald a Spy? 179
A Message from Oswald 186
DeMohrenschildt and the Agency 189
The French Connection to the Assassination 192
G-Men (J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the Secret Service) 199
The Top G-man 201
Did Oswald Work for the FBI? 210
Cuban Grand Central Station 219
The Secret Service 224
A Few Drinks at the Cellar 229
Rednecks and Oilmen (Right-wing Extremists and Texas Millionaires) 235
A Bullet for the General 236
The Miami Prophet 244
Nixon and the JFK Assassination 246
A Killing on Wall Street 253
Kennedy and Oilmen 256
Oswald's Friends 258
All the Way with LBJ 269
Soldiers (The Military) 280
The Military-Industrial Complex 280
Kennedy and Vietnam 284
The Man Who Was to Kill Oswald 289
Lone Gunmen on the Grassy Knoll 293
Part III Aftermath
Dallas 303
Mysterious Secret Service Men 309
The Black Car Chase 316
The Account of Roger Craig 318
The Three Tramps 322
The Mafia Man in Dealey Plaza 327
The Shooting of J. D. Tippit 330
The Arrest of Oswald 340
The FBI Takes Control 347
Two Hospitals 351
Jack Ruby at Parkland 356
The Switching of Bodies 364
Jack Ruby 370
Jack Ruby-Gangster 375
Jack Ruby-Gunrunner and FBI Informant 379
The Woman Who Foresaw the Assassination 385
Did Ruby and Oswald Know Each Other? 387
The Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald 398
Jack Ruby's Warnings 400
The Sudden Death of Jack Ruby 410
The Evidence 415
An Incriminating Palm Print 422
Questionable Backyard Photos 430
Reenactment Problems 433
The Warren Commission 436
The Reluctant Chairman 438
Oswald and the FBI 447
Conflicts in the Testimony 451
The Single-Bullet Theory 458
The Garrison Investigation 466
Clay Shaw and Permindex 469
The House Select Committee on Assassinations 485
Blakey at the Helm 491
The Dallas Police Radio Recording 497
The Oliver Stone Film JFK 503
Preemptive Attacks 504
The Assassinations Records Review Board 506
Douglas Home's Discoveries 507
The Zapruder Film: Fundamental or Fraud? 509
Hollywood Takes a Look 512
A Question of Oswald 515
An Impostor 516
Was Oswald Really Oswald? 521
The Oswald Exhumation 524
Convenient Deaths 529
Early Deaths 532
Strange Deaths Continue 534
Part IV Conclusions
Assassination Coverage 543
A Likely Scenario 547
Sources and Notes 557
Index 581
Photographs follow page 302