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The acclaimed book Oliver Stone called "the best account I have
read of this tragedy and its significance," "JFK and the
Unspeakable" details not just how the conspiracy to assassinate
President John F. Kennedy was carried out, but WHY it was
done...and why it still matters today.
At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest
crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the
specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from
his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting
peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United
States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost,
Kennedy's change of heart was a direct threat to their power and
influence. Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that
Kennedy's interests were in direct opposition to their own, they
tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and
orchestrated the subsequent cover-up.
Douglass takes readers into the Oval Office during the tense days
of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee
Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in
Dallas where an ambush awaited the President's motorcade. As
Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these
forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on
a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda.
"JFK and the Unspeakable" shot up to the top of the bestseller
charts when Oliver Stone first brought it to the world's attention
on Bill Maher's show. Since then, it has been lauded by Mark Lane
(author of "Rush to Judgment," who calls it "an exciting work with
the drama of a first-rate thriller"), John Perkins (author of
"Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," who proclaims it is "arguably
the most important book yet written about an American president),
and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who calls it "a very well-documented
and convincing portrait...I urge all Americans to read this book
and come to their own conclusions."
In this fascinating and disturbing work, James Douglass presents a
compelling account of the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy and why unmasking and accepting this truth remains crucial
for the future of our country and the world. The title comes from a
phrase of Thomas Merton, naming of the attitudes, forces and
interests that generate and support international tension and
conflict. Drawing on a vast field of investigations, including many
sources available only recently, Douglass lays out a sequence of of
steps over the last three years of his life that transformed JFK
from a traditional "Cold Warrior" to someone determined to pull the
world back from the edge of nuclear apocalypse. Beginning with the
fiasco of the Bay of Pigs invasion (which left the President
wishing to "splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces"), followed by
the Cuban Missile Crisis and his secret back-channel dialogues with
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, JFK pursued a series of
actions--right up to the week of his death--that caused members of
his own U.S. military-intelligence establishment to regard him as a
virtual traitor who had to be eliminated. As the 50th anniversary
of Kennedy's assassination approaches, the story of why he was
killed--his turn toward peace--is not ancient history, and bears
crucial lessons for today in the light of a decade of war and
continuing revelations of clandestine national security and
military activities. Douglass shows convincingly how those who
plotted the death of JFK were determined not simply to eliminate a
single man but to kill a vision. Douglass's book has all the
elements of a political thriller. But the stakes couldn't be
higher. Only by understanding the truth behind the murder of JFK
can we grasp his vision and assume the urgent struggle for peace
today. "In JFK and the Unspeakable Jim Douglass has distilled all
the best available research into a very well-documented and
convincing portrait of President Kennedy's transforming turn to
peace, at the cost of his life. Personally, it has made a very big
impact on me. After reading it in Dallas, I was moved for the first
time to visit Dealey Plaza. I urge all Americans to read this book
and come to their own conclusions about why he died and why--after
fifty years--it still matters." -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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