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The hidden history of the JFK assassination : the definitive account of the most controversial crime of the twentieth century / Lamar Waldron.

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ISBN: 9781619022263
ISBN: 1619022265
ISBN: 9781619024397
ISBN: 161902439X
Physical Description: 519 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, 2013.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-506) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Evidence of conspiracy -- "Single bullet theory" demolished and a new look at Oswald -- A Mafia godfather confesses -- Carlos Marcello's rise to power -- Marcello, Cuba, and Jack Ruby -- CIA vs. Castro, and the Kennedys vs. Carlos Marcello -- Marcello and Trafficante: planning JFK's murder -- Marcello meets with Ruby and Oswald -- Marcello and Trafficante infiltrate JFK's secret Cuba plan -- Plans to assassinate Fidel Castro and President Kennedy -- Oswald in New Orleans, Dallas, and Mexico City -- Carlos Marcello and the hit men for JFK's murder -- Targeting JFK in Chicago and Tampa in November 1963 -- JFK is assassinated in Dallas -- Officer Tippet is killed and problems arise for Marcello -- Another Mafia murder in Dallis -- Secret investigations and getting away with murder -- Mafia murders, confessions, and a million files still secret.
Summary, etc.:	Waldron uses long-buried files and exclusive information not available to congressional investigators to explain how godfathers Santo Trafficante and Carlos Marcello committed-- and got away with-- the most controversial crime of the 20th century.