Research Catalog

Title

Deep politics and the death of JFK / Peter Dale Scott ; [with a new preface].

Author

Scott, Peter Dale

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1996]

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Details

Description

xxvi, 413 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Meticulously documented investigation uncovering the political secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Subject

Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963 > Assassination

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-392) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Kennedy assassination, deep politics, and denial -- Kennedy, Johnson, and Vietnam: a tale of two NSAMs -- The dialectical cover-up -- The key to the cover-up: the FBI, COINTELPROS, and the case -- Oswald, intelligence, and the mob in New Orleans -- Oswald, intelligence, the mob, and the banana companies -- Mexico, Somoza, and the Martino-Rosselli story -- Ruby and narcotics: the heart of what was suppressed -- Ruby's background: narcotics, the Teamsters, and the racing wire service -- The nationally protected drug traffic and Ruby's relation to it -- Blakey and the politics of fighting crime -- Ruby, narcotics, and the establishment -- The coalitions against the Kennedys -- Intrigue, murder, cover-up: the continuity of manipulation -- Oswald as an informant for the government -- Oswald as a double agent for Hoover -- Army intelligence and the Dallas police -- The assassination and the Great Southwest corporation -- Who killed JFK? The deep political system.

ISBN

0520205197

OCLC

• 35634300
• SCSB-10419227

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library