For fifty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history.
At 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead, the victim of a sniper attack during his motorcade through Dallas. That may be the only fact generally agreed upon in the vast literature spawned by the assassination. National polls reveal that an overwhelming majority of Americans (75%) believe that there was a high-level conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Many even believe that Oswald was entirely innocent. In this continuously absorbing, powerful, ground-breaking book, Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies about an event that changed the course of history.
The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who forged an iron-clad case of circumstantial guilt around O. J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of writing the definitive book on the Kennedy assassination. This is an achievement that has for years seemed beyond reach. No one imagined that such a book would ever be written: a single volume that once and for all resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible.
There have been hundreds of books about the assassination, but there has never been a book that covers the entire case, including addressing every piece of evidence and each and every conspiracy theory, and the facts, or alleged facts, on which they are based. In this monumental work, the author has raised scholarship on the assassination to a new and final level, one that far surpasses all other books on the subject. It adds resonance, depth, and closure to the admirable work of the Warren Commission.
Reclaiming History is a narrative compendium of fact, forensic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses, and common sense. Every detail and nuance is accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi's irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last it all makes sense.
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Vincent Bugliosi (1934—2015), was the prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter, Outrage, and other #1 bestselling books.
Date of Birth:
August 14, 1934
Date of Death:
June 6, 2015
Place of Birth:
Hibbing, MN
Place of Death:
Los Angeles, CA
Education:
University of Miami (1956); UCLA Law School (1964)
Table of Contents
Dedication v Introduction xi Matters of Fact: What Happened Four Days in November 3 The Investigations 320 President Kennedy's Autopsy and the Gunshot Wounds to Kennedy and Governor Connally 382 The Most Famous Home Movie Ever, the "Magic Bullet," and the Single-Bullet Theory 450 Lee Harvey Oswald 513 Oswald's Ownership and Possession of the Rifle Found on the Sixth Floor 789 Identification of the Murder Weapon 805 Oswald at the Sniper's Nest and "Evidence" of His Innocence 819 The Grassy Knoll 845 A Conversation with Dr. Cyril Wecht 859 Secret Service Agents on the Grassy Knoll 865 The Zanies (and Others) Have Their Say 872 Other Assassins 901 Motive 935 Summary of Oswald's Guilt 951 Delusions of Conspiracy: What Did Not Happen Introduction to Conspiracy 973 History of the Conspiracy Movement 989 Mark Lane 1000 Mysterious and Suspicious Deaths 1012 The Second Oswald 1021 David Lifton and Alteration of the President's Body 1057 Ruby and the Mob 1071 Organized Crime 1145 CIA 1189 FBI 1215 Secret Service 1239 KGB 1248 Right Wing 1260 LBJ 1273 Cuba 1281 The Odio Incident and Anti-Castro Cuban Exiles 1295 Cover-Up by the CIA and FBI in the Warren Commission's Investigation of the Assassination 1336 Jim Garrison's Prosecution of Clay Shaw and Oliver Stone's Movie JFK 1347 Conclusion of No Conspiracy 1437 Bookends The Murder Trial of Jack Ruby 1465 A Conversation with Marina 1485 The People and Groups Involved in the Plot to Kill Kennedy 1489 Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidences 1500 Epilogue 1503 In Memoriam 1507 Abbreviations Used for Citations 1511 Acknowledgments 1513 Bibliography 1519 Index 1543
