Assassination

(see also Domestic Terrorism & Homicide)

Basics

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

In the Library: Articles

Miller, Don. “Accepting a conspiracy of random events,” Santa Cruz Sentinel (11/22/03):A15.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Belin, David W. Final Disclosure: The Full Truth About the Assassination of President Kennedy (NY: Scribner's, 1988).

Bishop, Jim. The Day Kennedy Was Shot (NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968).

Blakey, George R. & Richard N. Billings. The Plot to Kill the President (NY: Times Books, 1981).

Brener, Milton E. The Garrison Case: A Study in the Abuse of Power (NY: C.N. Potter, 1969).

Callahan, Bob. Who Shot JFK? A Guide to the Major Conspiracy Theories (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993).

Canal, John A. Silencing the Lone Assassin (St. Paul MN: Paragon, 2000).

Canfield, Michael. Coup d'Etat in America: The CIA & the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (NY: Third Press, 1975).

David, Jay. The Weight of the Evidence: The Warren Report & its Critics (NY: Meredith, 1968).

Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello & the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (NY: McGraw Hill, 1989).

Epstein, Edward Jay. The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot & Legend (NY: Carroll & Graf, 1992).

Fetzer, James (ed.) Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK (Chicago: Catfeet, 1998).

Garrison, Jim. A Heritage of Stone (NY: Putnam, 1970).

__________. On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation & Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy (NY: Sheridan Square, 1988).

Gibson, Donald. The Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up (Commack NY: Kroshka, 2000).

Hilty, James W. Robert Kennedy: Brother Protector (Philadelphia: Temple, 1997).

Hinckle, Warren. Deadly Secrets: The CIA-Mafia War Against Castro & the Assassination of JFK (NY: Thunder's Mouth, 1992).

Houghton, Robert A. Special Unit Senator: The Investigation of the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy (NY: Random House, 1970).

Hurt, Henry. Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1986).

Jansen, Godfrey H. Why Robert Kennedhy Was Killed: The Story of Two Victims (NY: Third Press, 1971).

Joesten, Joachim. Oswald: Assassin or Fall Guy? (NY: Marzani & Munsell, 1964).

Jones, Howard. Death of a Generation: How the Assassinations of Diem & JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War (NY: Oxford, 2003).

Kaiser, David. The Road to Dallas (Cambridge MA: Harvard, 2008). Careful, well-documented argument that anti-Castro Cubans & the Mafia were behind JFK assassination.

Kaiser, Robert B. "RFK Must Die!" A History of the Robert Kennedy Assassination & Its Aftermath (NY: Dutton, 1970).

Kantor, Seth. Who Was Jack Ruby? (NY: Everest, 1978).

Kirkwood, James. American Grotesque: An Account of the Claw Shaw-Jim Garrison Kennedy Assassination Trial in the City of New Orleans (NY: HarperPerennial. 1992).

Klaber, William & Philip H. Melanson. Shadow Play: The Murder of Robert F. Kennedy, the Trial of Sirhan Sirhan & the Failure of American Justice (NY: St. Martin's, 1997).

Kurtz, Michael L. Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian's Perspective (2nd ed.; Knoxville, U. Tennessee, 1993).

Lane, Mark. A Citizen's Dissent (NY: Rinehart & Wilson, 1968).

__________. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? (NY: Thunder's Mouth, 1991).

__________. Rush to Judgment [1966] (NY: Thunder's Mouth, 1992).

Levine, Isaac Don. The Mind of an Assassin (NY: Farrar, Strauss & Cudahy, 1959).

Lifton, David S. Best Evidence: Disguise & Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (NY: Macmillan, 1980).

Manchester, William R. The Death of a President (NY: Harper & Row, 1967).

Mehdi, Mohammad Taki. Kennedy & Sirhan: Why? (NY: New World, 1968).

Melanson, Philip H. The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Evidence on the Conspiracy & Cover-Up, 1968-1991 (NY: Shapolsky, 1991).

__________. Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald & US Intelligence (NY: Praeger, 1991).

Menninger, Bonar. Mortal Error: The Shot that Killed JFK (NY: St. Martin's, 1992).

Moldea, Dan E. The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy: An Investigation of Motive, Means & Opportunity (NY: Norton, 1995).

Newman, John. Oswald & the CIA (NY: Carroll & Graf, 1995).

North, Mark. Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy (NY: Carroll & Graf, 1991).

Posner, Gerald L. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald & the Assassination of JFK (NY: Random House, 1993).

Roffman, Howard. Presumed Guilty: Lee Harvey Oswald In the Assassination of President Kennedy (Rutherford NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson, 1978).

Russo, Gus. Live By the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro & the Death of JFK (Baltimore: Bancroft, 1998).

Scott, Peter Dale; Paul L. Hoch & Russell Stetler (eds.) The Assassinations: Dallas & Beyond. A Guide to Cover-Ups & Investigations (NY: Random House, 1976).

__________. Deep Politics & the Death of JFK (Berkeley: U. of California, 1996).

Simon, Art. Dangerous Knowledge: The JFK Assassination in Art & Film (Philadelphia: Temple U, 1996).

Steel, Ronald. In Love With Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy (NY: Simon & Schuster, 2000).

Turner, William W. & Jonn G. Christian. The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The Conspiracy & Coverup (NY: Thunder's Mouth, 1993).

Warren Commission. The Official Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (NY: Doubleday, 1964).

Weisberg, Harold. Never Again! The Government Conspiracy in the JFK Assassination (NY: Carroll & Graf, 1995).

Wills, Garr & Ovid Demaris. Jack Ruby (NY: New American Library, 1968).

In the Library: Fiction

Davison, Jean. Oswald's Game (NY: Norton, 1983).

DeLillo, Don. Libra (NY: Viking, 1988).

Mailer, Norman. Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (NY: Random House, 1995).

Summers, Anthony. Conspiracy (NY: Paragon, 1989).

In the Library: Poetry

In the Library: Photography

Groden, Robert J. The Killing of a President: The Complete Photographic Record of the JFK Assassination, the Conspiracy & the Cover-Up (NY: Viking Studio, 1993).

Trask, Richard B. Pictures of the Pain: Photography & the Assassination of President Kennedy (Danvers MA: Yeoman, 1994).

__________. That Day in Dallas: Three Photographers Capture on Film the Day President Kennedy Died (Danvers MA: Yeoman, 1998).

CD & Audio

Everson, William. The Tongs of Jeopardy (Memorare Recordings, 1964).

Film & Video

"Image of an Assassination: A New Look at the Zapruder Film" [1998], dir. H.D. Motyl, 45m. From MPI Home Video.

"JFK" [1993], dir. Oliver Stone, 206m. In video stores.

"Reasonable Doubt: The Single-Bullet Theory & the Assassination of John F. Kennedy" [1988], a CS Films production, 51m. From CS Films.

"The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald" [1977], dir. David Greene, 210m.