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9780393045253

Reclaiming Hist Cl

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    9780393045253

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    0393045250

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-05-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

This extraordinary and historic book required twenty years to research and write. The oft-challenged findings of the Warren Commission'”Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot and killed President John F. Kennedy'”are here confirmed beyond all doubt. But Reclaiming History does much more than that. In addition to providing a powerful and unprecedented narrative of events and a biography of the assassin, it confronts and destroys every one of the conspiracy theories that have grown up since the assassination, exposing their selective use of evidence, flawed logic, and outright deceptions. So thoroughly documented, so compellingly lucid in its conclusions, Reclaiming History is, in a sense, the investigation that completes the work of the Warren Commission. In it, Vincent Bugliosi, the nation's foremost prosecutor, takes on the most important murder in 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 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.

Table of Contents

Dedicationp. v
Introductionp. xi
Matters of Fact: What Happened
Four Days in Novemberp. 3
The Investigationsp. 320
President Kennedy's Autopsy and the Gunshot Wounds to Kennedy and Governor Connallyp. 382
The Most Famous Home Movie Ever, the "Magic Bullet," and the Single-Bullet Theoryp. 450
Lee Harvey Oswaldp. 513
Oswald's Ownership and Possession of the Rifle Found on the Sixth Floorp. 789
Identification of the Murder Weaponp. 805
Oswald at the Sniper's Nest and "Evidence" of His Innocencep. 819
The Grassy Knollp. 845
A Conversation with Dr. Cyril Wechtp. 859
Secret Service Agents on the Grassy Knollp. 865
The Zanies (and Others) Have Their Sayp. 872
Other Assassinsp. 901
Motivep. 935
Summary of Oswald's Guiltp. 951
Delusions of Conspiracy: What Did Not Happen
Introduction to Conspiracyp. 973
History of the Conspiracy Movementp. 989
Mark Lanep. 1000
Mysterious and Suspicious Deathsp. 1012
The Second Oswaldp. 1021
David Lifton and Alteration of the President's Bodyp. 1057
Ruby and the Mobp. 1071
Organized Crimep. 1145
CIAp. 1189
FBIp. 1215
Secret Servicep. 1239
KGBp. 1248
Right Wingp. 1260
LBJp. 1273
Cubap. 1281
The Odio Incident and Anti-Castro Cuban Exilesp. 1295
Cover-Up by the CIA and FBI in the Warren Commission's Investigation of the Assassinationp. 1336
Jim Garrison's Prosecution of Clay Shaw and Oliver Stone's Movie JFKp. 1347
Conclusion of No Conspiracyp. 1437
Bookends
The Murder Trial of Jack Rubyp. 1465
A Conversation with Marinap. 1485
The People and Groups Involved in the Plot to Kill Kennedyp. 1489
Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidencesp. 1500
Epiloguep. 1503
In Memoriamp. 1507
Abbreviations Used for Citationsp. 1511
Acknowledgmentsp. 1513
Bibliographyp. 1519
Indexp. 1543
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