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The road to Dallas : the assassination of John F. Kennedy / David Kaiser.

Summary:

With deft investigative skill, Kaiser shows that the events leading up to JFK's assassination cannot be understood without fully grasping two larger stories: the U.S. government's campaign against organized crime and the furtive quest of two administrations to eliminate Fidel Castro

Record details

  • ISBN: 0674027663
  • ISBN: 9780674027664
  • Physical Description: 509 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 422-493) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I Criminals, Cubans, Kennedys, and the Cia -- 1 Organized Crime in the 1950s 11 -- 2 Castro Takes Power 27 -- 3 CIA Enlists the Mob 53 -- 4 Kennedys Take Over 75 -- 5 Operation Mongoose 97 -- 6 Crusaders and Gangsters 123 -- 7 Mob Enlists the CIA 143 -- Part II Lee Harvey Oswald -- 8 A Defector Returns 169 -- 9 Big Easy 190 -- 10 Oswald Exposed 210 -- 11 Odio Incident 238 -- 12 Journey to Mexico 261 -- Part III Converging Paths -- 13 Making Everyone Unhappy about Cuba 293 -- 14 Turning Up the Heat 325 -- 15 Countdown to Catastrophe 342 -- 16 Three Days in November 362 -- 17 Keeping Secrets 388.
Subject:
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 > Assassination.

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