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The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
Henry Holt & Co
November 2012
On Sale: October 29, 2012
640 pages ISBN: 0805094202 EAN: 9780805094206 Kindle: B00DVE484G Hardcover / e-Book
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A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy
assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th
century's most controversial murder investigation The
questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was
the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey
Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission
discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22,
1963? Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative
journalist who spent most of his career at The New York
Times, finally provides many of the answers. Though A
Cruel and Shocking Act began as Shenon's attempt to
write the first insider's history of the Warren Commission,
it quickly became something much larger and more important
when he discovered startling information that was withheld
from the Warren Commission by the CIA, FBI and others in
power in Washington. Shenon shows how the commission's
ten-month investigation was doomed to fail because the man
leading it – Chief Justice Earl Warren – was more committed
to protecting the Kennedy family than getting to the full
truth about what happened on that tragic day. A taut,
page-turning narrative, Shenon's book features some of the
most compelling figures of the twentieth century—Bobby
Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover,
Chief Justice Warren, CIA spymasters Allen Dulles and
Richard Helms, as well as the CIA's treacherous
“molehunter,” James Jesus Angleton. Based on hundreds
of interviews and unprecedented access to the surviving
commission staffers and many other key players, Philip
Shenon's authoritative, scrupulously researched book will
forever change the way we think about the Kennedy
assassination and about the deeply flawed investigation that
followed.
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