"Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy was an appalling and
grisly conspiracy. This is the unvarnished story."
With deft investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the
events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully
grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the U.S.
government s campaign against organized crime, which began in the
late 1950s and accelerated dramatically under Robert Kennedy; and
the furtive quest of two administrations along with a cadre of
private interest groups to eliminate Fidel Castro.
The seeds of conspiracy go back to the Eisenhower
administration, which recruited top mobsters in a series of plots
to assassinate the Cuban leader. The CIA created a secretive
environment in which illicit networks were allowed to expand in
dangerous directions. The agency s links with the Mafia continued
in the Kennedy administration, although the President and his
closest advisors engaged in their own efforts to overthrow Castro
thought this skullduggery had ended. Meanwhile, Cuban exiles,
right-wing businessmen, and hard-line anti-Communists established
ties with virtually anyone deemed capable of taking out the Cuban
premier. Inevitably those ties included the mob.
The conspiracy to kill JFK took shape in response to Robert
Kennedy s relentless attacks on organized crime legal vendettas
that often went well beyond the normal practices of law
enforcement. Pushed to the wall, mob leaders merely had to look to
the networks already in place for a solution. They found it in Lee
Harvey Oswald the ideal character to enact their desperate revenge
against the Kennedys.
Comprehensive, detailed, and informed by original sources, "The
Road to Dallas" adds surprising new material to every aspect of the
case. It brings to light the complete, frequently shocking, story
of the JFK assassination and its aftermath.
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