Houston, Texas: - Vincent Bugliosi Appears on Global Evolution with JD Messinger
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a tragedy of extraordinary magnitude seared into our national consciousness, has left a 44-year legacy of speculation and distrust. As of the most recent Gallup poll, in 2003, 75% of Americans believe that there was a conspiracy behind Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963. Only 19% accept the conclusion of the Warren Commission that Kennedy was killed by a lone assassin. In a monumental new work of history and legal analysis, RECLAIMING HISTORY: THE ASSASSINATION OF JOHN F. KENNEDY, legendary prosecutor and number one best-selling author Vincent Bugliosi aims to free us forever from this troubling legacy of distrust. Bugliosi argues persuasively that it is beyond all doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald murdered President Kennedy, and beyond a reasonable doubt that Oswald acted alone. The result of twenty years of research, investigation, and analysis, and supported by more than 10,000 citations, RECLAIMING HISTORY presents the definitive word on the JFK assassination. It is the first of the nearly one thousand books about the Kennedy assassination to attempt a comprehensive and fair evaluation of the entire case, including all of the major conspiracy theories. It is an historic achievement and a work to fascinate and enlighten all Americans, whether or not they were alive at the time of the assassination.
Drawing on the insights and skills gained in his brilliant prosecutorial career and building on his two decades of research, Bugliosi reconstructs the exact events and circumstances of the assassination. Using a meticulous chronology that brings history to life, Bugliosi relays the events of the whirlwind four days in November of 1963, during which President Kennedy and Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit were murdered, Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended, local nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot Oswald, and both Kennedy and Oswald were buried, on the same day, surrounded by grieving family members but otherwise in circumstances as different as can be imagined.
Following this epic account, Bugliosi proceeds to offer an in-depth evaluation of the governmental investigations of the assassination. He describes the formation of the Warren Commission, drawing lively portraits of the Commission’s members and staff. Bugliosi details the process by which the Commission assembled its evidence, interviewed witnesses, and finally published its famous report concluding that Oswald alone had killed the president. Bugliosi also analyzes the investigation by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), commissioned in 1976. Although Bugliosi recognizes the flaws and oversights of both investigations, he makes a compelling and irrefutable case that there is no evidence on which to base accusations that these committees were deliberately hiding or obscuring the truth of the assassination. In fact, making such charges has always required significant omissions and distortions of established fact, he writes.
Bugliosi then uses his prosecutorial microscope to examine the hundreds of pieces of evidence surrounding the entire case, and draws powerful inferences from them that lead irresistibly to Oswald’s guilt. He proceeds to take under consideration every conspiracy theory that has emerged over the years, subjecting the theories to intense scrutiny and rigorous logic. He exposes the methods of authors and conspiracy theory promoters such as Mark Lane, Jim Garrison, and Oliver Stone, and specifically disproves theories ranging from the alleged second shooter on the grassy knoll, to potential CIA involvement, to Jack Ruby’s supposed mob connections, to the purported cover-up of the assassination by the FBI, and much, much more. Bugliosi concludes with a gripping summary of the evidence and the facts that is similar to the final summation he would have given to a jury if he had prosecuted Oswald in real life.
Bugliosi’s commitment to objectivity and his allegiance to the hard facts of history, wherever they may lead, make RECLAIMING HISTORY an invigorating study not only of the assassination itself, but also of the many ways in which the historical record can become sullied by misinformation, false perceptions and even well-meaning errors of judgment.
What also stands out when one delves into RECLAIMING HISTORY is the vibrancy and complexity of the people involved. The individuals and the situations in which they found themselves call to mind Shakespearean drama. Figures including Lyndon B. Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Dallas Police Captain Will Fritz, Dallas dressmaker Abraham Zapruder of the famous film footage, and the police officers, FBI agents, doctors and autopsy surgeons who were put to the test over the course of those turbulent four days in November come alive in all their challenges and confrontations. With sensitivity and deep insight, Bugliosi also examines the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and offers an assessment of his personality and motive that is ultimately humanizing, even if Oswald’s actions remain despicable and senseless. The parallel love stories of John and Jacqueline Kennedy and Lee and Marina Oswald further engage the reader in a historical drama that is vital, and yet universal. The lives that intersected on November 22, 1963 with disastrous consequences were in so many ways ordinary, in so many ways our own.
An immense contribution to American history, politics and understanding, RECLAIMING HISTORY sets forth once and for all the facts of the Kennedy assassination and its legacy. History is sacred, Bugliosi writes in his dedication, and ”should never be tampered with or defiled by untruths.” At last, we can set aside the anger and distrust perpetuated by conspiracy theories and reclaim the truth as our guiding principle and our heritage.
TITLE: Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
AUTHOR: Vincent Bugliosi
ISBN: 978-0-393-04525-3
PUBLICATION DATE: May 21, 2007 PRICE: $49.95 hc with CD
BOOK LENGTH: 1696 pages (1658 text pages plus 38 pages of photos, maps and illustrations)
CD LENGTH (Endnotes and Source Notes): 1128 pages (958 pages of End notes plus 170 pages of Source Notes)
www.reclaiminghistory.com
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