Reclaiming Hist Cl

by Bugliosi,Vincent

• ISBN13: 9780393045253
• ISBN10: 0393045250
• Edition: CD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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

Dedication	p. v
Introduction	p. xi
Matters of Fact: What Happened
Four Days in November	p. 3
The Investigations	p. 320
President Kennedy's Autopsy and the Gunshot Wounds to Kennedy and Governor Connally	p. 382
The Most Famous Home Movie Ever, the "Magic Bullet," and the Single-Bullet Theory	p. 450
Lee Harvey Oswald	p. 513
Oswald's Ownership and Possession of the Rifle Found on the Sixth Floor	p. 789
Identification of the Murder Weapon	p. 805
Oswald at the Sniper's Nest and "Evidence" of His Innocence	p. 819
The Grassy Knoll	p. 845
A Conversation with Dr. Cyril Wecht	p. 859
Secret Service Agents on the Grassy Knoll	p. 865
The Zanies (and Others) Have Their Say	p. 872
Other Assassins	p. 901
Motive	p. 935
Summary of Oswald's Guilt	p. 951
Delusions of Conspiracy: What Did Not Happen
Introduction to Conspiracy	p. 973
History of the Conspiracy Movement	p. 989
Mark Lane	p. 1000
Mysterious and Suspicious Deaths	p. 1012
The Second Oswald	p. 1021
David Lifton and Alteration of the President's Body	p. 1057
Ruby and the Mob	p. 1071
Organized Crime	p. 1145
CIA	p. 1189
FBI	p. 1215
Secret Service	p. 1239
KGB	p. 1248
Right Wing	p. 1260
LBJ	p. 1273
Cuba	p. 1281
The Odio Incident and Anti-Castro Cuban Exiles	p. 1295
Cover-Up by the CIA and FBI in the Warren Commission's Investigation of the Assassination	p. 1336
Jim Garrison's Prosecution of Clay Shaw and Oliver Stone's Movie JFK	p. 1347
Conclusion of No Conspiracy	p. 1437
Bookends
The Murder Trial of Jack Ruby	p. 1465
A Conversation with Marina	p. 1485
The People and Groups Involved in the Plot to Kill Kennedy	p. 1489
Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidences	p. 1500
Epilogue	p. 1503
In Memoriam	p. 1507
Abbreviations Used for Citations	p. 1511
Acknowledgments	p. 1513
Bibliography	p. 1519
Index	p. 1543
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