FROM THE BOOK DEPOSITORY
Probable Cause Recommended Reading list
Heck, you know the problem...there's precisely 134,657 books written on the JFK assassination. So, where to start? Okay, you'll find below a list of all the books you need to get all the facts, figures and theories of the JFK assassination. These are books we have copies of in our library and they are all highly recommended. So, thanks to Probable Cause, you now only have to buy forty or so....what a great service!
THE TOP 5 ACCORDING TO PROBABLE CAUSE
These books you just have to get!
1. BEST EVIDENCE: DISGUISE AND DECEPTION IN THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK by David S. Lifton (1988), 755 pages. The pioneering national bestseller that contains a microstudy of the medical evidence, and the original interviews with eyewitnesses telling of discrepancies of the body between Parkland and Bethesda. Updated with autopsy photos. A must in each assassination library.
2.TREACHERY IN DALLAS by Walt Brown (1994) 456 pages. This is the guy who blew the case wide open. Not only does Brown cut away all the smoke and lies that have been hanging around the case for years, but he places the events in their most realistic context and proves, once and for all, there was a consiracy and names just who was involved. BUY THIS BOOK!
3. THE KILLING OF A PRESIDENT: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination, the conspiracy, and the cover-up, by Robert J. Groden, 223 pages.This volume contains over 650 photographs, maps, drawings, and documents that depict and explain the events surrounding the assassination and the cover-up. Includes a complete analysis of the medical, ballistics, and acoustics evidence, and much more. Highly Recommended!! Great Pictures!!! Longest title ever...
4. CROSSFIRE: THE PLOT THAT KILLED KENNEDY. One of the most comprehensive books yet! Oliver Stone based parts of "JFK" on this book. Just call this the "JFK Bible" and get yourself a copy. Everything's in here!
5. THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH by Dick Russell (1992), 824 pages. The story of Richard Case Nagell. Nagell had knowledge of a conspiracy to kill JFK and was hired by the Soviets to prevent the assassination by killing LHO. Instead of killing LHO, he got himself intentionally arrested in Sept. 1963 by firing shots in a bank.
We use and recommend
assassination books
by Walt Brown
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Now, for the others....(in no particular order)
TARGET FIDEL: A NARRATIVE ENCYCLOPEDIA ON THE US GOVERNMENT'S PLANS TO KILL FIDEL CASTRO. 175 pages. By Peter Kross, Editor, Back Channels Magazine. $27.95 Mailed First Class Air. US Funds only. Payable to: Kross Research & Publications, PO Box 9, Franklin Park, NJ 08823 USA.
CIA TARGETS FIDEL, Ocean Press (1996). 122 pages. Previously secret CIA Inspector General's report was declassified in 1994. It has been retyped from the original documents with all annotations, underlining, deletions, and comments intact. Also includes an interview with Division General Fabian Escalante, former head of Cuba's counterintelligence body and Cuba's foremost authority on CIA covert operations against Cuba and the attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro.
THE MEN ON THE SIXTH FLOOR, by Glen Sample and Mark Collom. (1995) The authors track down and interview an ex-convict who confessed to being an accomplice in the Kennedy assassination. Reviewed in the Los Angeles Times.
BREACH OF FAITH, by Dr. William P. Truels (1995). This account is based on a compilation of eyewitness accounts--a "street talk" version of history that you will not find in any history books.
His "Grand Unified Theory" is intended as a guide for assassination researchers. Our most recent favorite!!
NEVER AGAIN!, by Harold Weisberg, (1995), 498 pages, The FBI says Harold Weisberg knows more about the Kennedy assassination than the FBI itself. In his eighth book on the case, he shows us what he knows.
J.F.K. THE MYSTERY UNRAVELED. by Liberty Lobby, Inc. (1986).E. Howard Hunt sued Liberty Lobby for libel following the Aug. 14, 1978 publication of a story by a former CIA operative that did not implicate Hunt in the JFK assassination but, rather said that certain factions within the CIA were considering doing so! A must-have companion to Plausible Denial by Mark Lane.
KILL ZONE: A SNIPER LOOKS AT DEALEY PLAZA by Craig Roberts (1994), 252 pages, A twenty year veteran policeman and recognized authority on sniping looks inside the government.
KHRUSHCHEV KILLED KENNEDY by Michael H.B. Eddowes (1975), 318 pages, Rare and sought after book. The assassination was a political sabotage executed by a Russian agent impersonating Oswald.
THE ASSASSINATION CHRONICLES: INQUEST, COUNTERPLOT AND LEGEND by Edward J. Epstein. The compilation of Epstein's library of information. Great reading! (1992), 704 pages.
THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY by James P. Duffy & Vincent L. Ricci (1992), 537 pages. The ultimate reference guide to the greatest unsolved crime of the 20th century. A complete book of facts, places, and people regarding the Assassination.
THE WHITEWASH SERIES by Harold Weisberg:
WHITEWASH I & II & III (1966), 250 pages. Deals with the FBI and the Secret Service coverup.
WHITEWASH IV (1966), 250 pages. Top secret JFK Assassination transcripts.
PHOTOGRAPHIC WHITEWASH (1967), 314 pages. Information about suppressed assassination pictures.
POSTMORTEM (1975), 650 pages. JFK Assassination coverup smashed!
NOVEMBER 22ND, THE DAY REMEMBERED by "The Dallas Morning News". (1990), Large collectible softcover book recalling that days' tragic events. Great souvenir!
THE SECRET TEAM by L. Fletcher Prouty (1973), 496 pages. Reprint of a classic! An insiders look at the way the affairs of the world are really run.
CONSPIRACY by Anthony Summers (1980), 496 pages The definitive book on the JFK assassination. Meticulously researched, reads like a novel. A must for the collector & researcher!
ACCESSORIES AFTER THE FACT by Sylvia Meagher (1967), 477 pages. The Warren Commission, the authorities, and the report. Reprint of a classic! "The best documented and most damning of any attacks on the Warren Report yet." - The London Sunday Times
COUP D'ETAT IN AMERICA (CIA) by Canfield, Weberman (1975), 314 pages. Compelling evidence of CIA involvement in the Assassination. Heavy duty reading here!
RUSH TO JUDGMENT by Mark Lane (1966), 478 pages. This is the book that started it all! The #1 Bestseller that dares to reveal what The Warren Report conceals about JFK's assassination.
JFK THE DOCUMENTED SCREENPLAY by Oliver Stone & Zachary Sklar (1992), Oliver Stone's research notes, collected reactions and commentaries by Norman Mailer, Tom Wicker, Gerald Ford and more!
CASE OPEN by Harold Weisberg, (1994),156 pages. This book is a rebuttal to Case Closed by Gerald Posner.
JFK CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE by Charles A. Crenshaw, M.D., (1992), paperback, 203
pages.Headline-making new revelations from the surgeon who tried to save JFK and Oswald! Crenshaw gives testimony he was not allowed to give to the Warren Commission.
COVER-UP by J. Gary Shaw ( 2nd ed. 1992), 217 pages. This is a book for the average citizen that tells of the alteration, mutilation, destruction, and suppression of evidence in the JFK assassination case and much more! Text is supported with pictures and documents. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!
ZR RIFLE, THE PLOT TO KILL KENNEDY & CASTRO by Claudia Furiati (1994), 180 pages. Cuban files reveal new extensive use of Cuban State Security Department materials that the author feels show how & why the CIA's anti-Cuba operations, along with the anti-Castro exiles & the Mafia, planned & orchestrated the Kennedy assassination.
THE SEARCH FOR LEE HARVEY OSWALD by Robert Groden. Oversized, 100's of photos--some never before published--and compelling research. A must have!
OSWALD TALKED: New Evidence in the JFK Assassination by Ray & Mary La Fontaine. Controversial claims on the Odio incident. Startling evidence of an official document linking Oswald to a government agency.
DEEP POLITICS AND THE DEATH OF JFK by Peter Dale Scott, 413 pages. "Disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedy's death, and of the "structural defects" within the American government.
OSWALD AND THE CIA, by John Newman. (1995) A provocative study of the Kennedy assassination and the links between Lee Harvey Oswald and the CIA journeys inside the intelligence community to provide revelations about the agency's secret operations and the government's role in the assassination.
DOUBLE CROSS by Sam and Chuck Giancana (1992), 366 pages. The godson and brother of Mafia boss Sam Giancana name names and tell the secrets of the era surrounding the Kennedy assassination.
JFK: THE LAST DISSENTING WITNESS by Jean Hill & Bill Sloan (1992). 255 pages of Jean's own inside story! Heartwarming and Triumphant.
CAUSE OF DEATH by Cyril Wecht, M.D., J.D. (1993), 305 pages. A leading forensic expert sets the record straight on JFK, RFK, Jean Harris, and other controversial cases.
JFK AND VIETNAM by John M. Newman, (1992) 506 pages. Based on 15,000 pages of documents, many newly declassified, and recent exclusive interviews with key participants. Ground breaking in its revelations and certain to invoke debate. You've heard him at symposiums--now read about it!! Study of the Pentagon policies and politics that lead the U.S. into a no win situation.
PLAUSIBLE DENIAL: Was The CIA Involved In The Assassination Of JFK? by Mark Lane, 393 pgs. Lane makes startling revelations about the CIA's involvement in a plot to murder JFK. This book is the result of documents made available by the Freedom of Information Act and by sworn depositions Lane was able to take from former CIA operatives and officials.
DESTINY BETRAYED by James DiEugenio, 423 pages. Captures Jim Garrison's struggle to learn and to reveal how and why JFK was assassinated. Gives a full account of how the military industrial complex and its civilian allies attempted to smother Garrison's investigation.
THE LAST INVESTIGATION by Gaeton Fonzi, 448 pages. A former federal investigator for the House Select Committee on Assassinations breaks his oath and tells what insiders know about the Assassination of John F. Kennedy.
ON THE TRAIL OF THE ASSASSINS: MY INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF THE MURDER OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY by Jim Garrison, 342 pages. Garrison finally tells his own story. In a relentless, spellbinding narrative, he pieces together his terrifying thesis that JFK was the victim of a conspiracy and coverup involving elements of the CIA, the FBI, and state and local officials.
THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT, 888 pages. - sorry...only joking. File under "Speculative Fiction." The official report presented to President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 24, 1964. By the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy.
ACT OF TREASON: THE ROLE OF J. EDGAR HOOVER IN THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY by Mark North, 671 pages. True nature of the conspiracy that killed JFK Tells that Hoover knew of the plot to kill JFK and did not report it to the Secret Service.
CONSPIRACIES, COVER-UPS AND CRIMES by Jonathan Vankin, (1991) 305 pages, This is the first comprehensive and objective exploration of conspiracy theory, the last real political heresy. Who really killed JFK? Were we told the truth about Jonestown? Did the CIA have a hand in bombing Pan Am flight 103? and much, much more.
FOUR DAYS, THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE DEATH OF JFK, oversized, rare, 100's of photos. A beautiful book you'll be proud to own.
FAREWELL AMERICA, by James Hepburn, (1968), 418 pages.A revelation of the political, social and economic forces behind the assassination of JFK and a specific accusation against the real assassins. WE RECOMMEND STRONGLY! AN IMPORTANT BOOK!!
JFK:CIA ,VIETNAM, AND THE PLOT TO ASSASSINATE JFK by L. Fletcher Prouty. The plot to kill Kennedy originated beyond the highest levels of government. In the movie JFK the advocate of this theory is a character named "X". In real life, "X" is L. Fletcher Prouty, a former Chief of Special Operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and author, and the film's creative advisor.
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