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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523092
EAN num: 9781581824872
ISBN number: 1581824874
Label: Cumberland House Publishing
Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing
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Page Count: 234
Printing Date: October 30, 2005
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Who can hear the words 'grassy knoll' or 'Texas School Book Depository' without a shudder of horror? Who can forget that one minute the handsome, smiling president was waving to the crowds, and the subsequent minute his wife was bravely trying to hold his shattered head together? The story of what happened on that day is very poignant for Antoinette Giancana. Her father, Sam Giancana, ordered the assassination of President Kennedy.
JFK and Sam is a tale of two murders. The very first occurred in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The second occurred in Oak Park, Illinois, on the evening of June 19, 1975. The very first was ordered by Sam Giancana to avenge his betrayal by the Kennedys. Giancana had assured JFK's win in Illinois with the understanding that the new administration would go easy on the Chicago mob. Instead, Bobby Kennedy stepped up prosecutions. The second assassination was carried out by the CIA and the mob to prevent Giancana from testifying before the Church Committee hearings regarding his role in the CIA's plot to kill Fidel Castro. The irony is that both men—John Kennedy and Sam Giancana—were assassinated because of their relationship to each other and events that transpired from that relationship.
JFK and Sam is unique from other books on the Kennedy assassination. Written by an insider with acess to key figures, it names the assassins and traces the assassination team's movements on November 22, 1963, and discusses the team leader's life, his tape confession, and his face-to-face meeting with Antoinette in the Joliet state prison where he is serving a life sentence for killing a policeman.
The very first shot came from the Dal-Tex Building (adjacent to the book depository) and struck Kennedy in the back of the neck. The second came from Giancana's driver who fired a CIA prototype handgun with a telescope (called a 'fireball') from the grassy knoll, using a frangible bullet, which explains why there was such a massive wound to Kennedy's head. Lee Harvey Oswald was the fall guy and did not fire a weapon.
Coauthors John Hughes and Thomas H. Jobe—experts in neurophysiology, neurology, and neuropsychiatry—also provide expert analysis that shows what could not have happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, as well as what did happen. Because of the nature of President Kennedy's injuries and his reaction to the bullets, Hughes and Jobe provide a medical basis that supports the story told by the assassin of the president of the United States.
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I recommend this book to anyone. I got hooked into reading the whole book, by just the very first page. It is an interesting book that will even get those loyal JFK fans thinking!!! I wish i'd known about this book a long time ago. If you have not read this book, then you don't like learning the history of this country.
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Reviewed by Joanne Benham for Reader Views (8/06)
There have been so many books written about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, one would wonder why someone would bother writing another. There are two schools of thought about the assassination. One theory is that Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gunman, working on his own initiative. The other theory is that the assassination was a giant conspiracy involving the FBI, the CIA and the Mafia.
One name that comes up time after time in the conspiracy theory camp is Sam Giancana, the Mafia chief of Chicago during the late 50s and 60s. This book is co-authored by Sam's daughter, Antoinette, who had intimate acess to several of the main characters named in the conspiracy theory. Her co-authors are doctors in the fields of neurology, neurophysiology and neuropsychiatry who provide expert analysis about what could and could not have happened that day in November, 1963.
The authors lay out a logical sequence of events, showing the strong links between the Kennedy family and Sam Giancana; links stretching back to prohibition days when Joseph Kennedy was a bootlegger with a contract on his head for running his rum through Mob territory without permission.
Whatever theory you believe, this book is fascinating, delving into the inner workings of politics and the Mafia. I could hardly put the book down, although I had to keep skipping ahead to follow a particular story thread because the authors would throw out a tantalizing bit of information and then tell you they would explain it more fully in a future chapter. I couldn't wait to get to that chapter.
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This is an outstanding book. It reads nicely and easily and gives a good overview of the case, also for beginners. This should not come as a surprise from me as I conversed a lot with author John Hughes and shared some of my research and materials for this book. Nevertheless a few tiny errors slipped into the last two chapters that deal with confessed grassy knoll shooter James E. Files. Such as that he used a .221 bullet, while in fact it was a .222 bullet. But these small errors are forgivable since they don't take away from the big picture, although the involvement of the CIA and the highest elements of US government could have been emphasized more. But then again, any child can grasp that Organized Crime alone could not have executed this coup d' état, not to mention its cover-up.
Five stars.
Wim Dankbaar
- author "Files on JFK"
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Absolutely astonishing. Being new to the whole Kennedy assignation field of study this book was my very first introduction to this intriguing subject. I was so fascinated by the information presented by the book I was even inspired to purchase the DVD of the taped interview with "Deadeye". I would highly recommend this book largely due to the fact it has kindled an interest in me I never thought I would have. I am still amazed at the idea that the man responsible for the shooting of JFK is alive and well in a prison in Joliet, IL. Even more remarkable is the thought that the world doesn't know
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Interesting read, closley follows JFK Murder Solved web site. James Files did it with help of others.
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