The Road to Dallas The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
| Author/creator | Kaiser, David Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Belknap Press [Imprint] Cambridge : Harvard University Press |
| Description | 536 p. ill 09.250 x 06.125 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation <p><i>Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman&mdash;the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy. This is the unvarnished story.</i></p><p>With deft investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the U.S. government&s campaign against organized crime, which began in the late 1950s and accelerated dramatically under Robert Kennedy; and the furtive quest of two administrations&mdash;along with a cadre of private interest groups&mdash;to eliminate Fidel Castro.</p><p>The seeds of conspiracy go back to the Eisenhower administration, which recruited top mobsters in a series of plots to assassinate the Cuban leader. The CIA created a secretive environment in which illicit networks were allowed to expand in dangerous directions. The agency&s links with the Mafia continued in the Kennedy administration, although the President and his closest advisors&mdash;engaged in their own efforts to overthrow Castro&mdash;thought this skullduggery had ended. Meanwhile, Cuban exiles, right-wing businessmen, and hard-line anti-Communists established ties with virtually anyone deemed capable of taking out the Cuban premier. Inevitably those ties included the mob.</p><p>The conspiracy to kill JFK took shape in response to Robert Kennedy&s relentless attacks on organized crime&mdash;legal vendettas that often went well beyond the normal practices of law enforcement. Pushed to the wall, mob leaders merely had to look to the networks already in place for a solution. They found it in Lee Harvey Oswald&mdash;the ideal character to enact their desperate revenge against the Kennedys.</p><p>Comprehensive, detailed, and informed by original sources,<i>The Road to Dallas</i>adds surprising new material to every aspect of the case. It brings to light the complete, frequently shocking, story of the JFK assassination and its aftermath.</p> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Awards note | ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Awards (nominated), 2008 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007027305 |
| ISBN | 9780674034723 |
| ISBN | 0674034724 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780674034723 |
| Stock number | 00011705 |
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