The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Cambridge: The Belknap Press, 2008. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. With investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the U.S. government’s campaign against organized crime, which began in the late 1950s and accelerated dramatically under Robert Kennedy; and the furtive quest of two administrations along with a cadre of private interest groups to eliminate Fidel Castro. The conspiracy to kill JFK took shape in response to Robert Kennedy’s relentless attacks on organized crime legal vendettas that often went well beyond the normal practices of law enforcement. Pushed to the wall, mob leaders merely had to look to the networks already in place for a solution. They found it in Lee Harvey Oswald the ideal character to enact their desperate revenge against the Kennedys. Item #26946
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