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Chapter One - The Assassination: Witness
to Murder
A damp, gray autumn sky hung over Dallas—weather to match my mood. Friday, November 22,
1963. President John F. Kennedy was coming to town...
Chapter Three - Cover-up: "What
the hell do you think Hoover's going to do?"
I know of just one reporter to whom the name Lee Harvey Oswald meant
anything before November 22nd: Kent Biffel. Still inside the book
depository at 2 p.m. when the suspect's name was first made public,
Kent receive a memory jolt...
Chapter Six - Dallas: The Mood, the
Realities
The Kennedy assassination was a watershed event for the news
business. Up to then, television news was mostly a novelty. The
era of the celebrity network anchor supplanting a kid on a bike
as bearer of the evening news was not yet born...
Chapter Twelve - "He wanted
to be a hero"
Jack Ruby was the quintessential wanna-be but never was. Full
of big stories, bigger dreams and lust braggadocio, the strip show
operator was first and foremost a lowlife, a man who searched for
class as though he understood what it was...
Chapter Fifteen - Bribery, Coercion
and Opportunists in the "Big Easy"
In my view, were it not for the pervasive influence of a
handful of individuals, there would be no plague of conspiracy theories
surrounding the Kennedy assassination...
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