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Select Bibliography on the Kennedy Assassination

• Belin, David. Final Disclosure: The Full Truth About the Assassination of President Kennedy. New York: Scribner’s, 1988.w
• Bishop, Jim. The Day Kennedy was Shot. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968.
• Blaine, Gerald. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York: Gallery Books, 2010.
• Blakely, G. Robert and Richard N. Billings. The Plot to Kill the President. New York: Times Books, 1981.
• Bohning, Don. The Castro Obsession: U.S. Covert Operations Against Cuba 1959-1965. Washington: Potomac Books, 2006.
• Bugliosi, Vincent. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York: W. W. Norton, 2007.
• ___. Four Days in November. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008 (abridged version of Reclaiming History)
• Bernau, George. Promises to Keep. New York: Warner Books, 1988.
• DeLillo, Don. Libra. New York: Viking, 1988. 
• Eddowes, Michael. The Oswald File. New York: Potter, 1977.
• English, T. J. Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba -- And Then Lost It to the Revolution. New York: Morrow, 2007. 
• Epstein, Edward Jay. Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. New York: Viking, 1966.
• Ernest, Barry. The Girl the Stairs: My Search for a Missing Witness to the Assassination of JFK. New York: CreateSpace, 2011.
• Freed, Donald and Mark Lane. Executive Action. New York: Dell, 1973.
• Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. New York: Oxford, 2000.
• Fuhrman, Mark. A Simple Act of Murder: November 22, 1963. New York: Morrow, 2006.
• Hill, Clint. Mrs. Kennedy and Me. New York: Gallery Books, 2012.
• Holland, Max. The Kennedy Assassination Tapes. New York: Knopf, 2004.
• Hosty, James P., Jr. Assignment: Oswald. New York: Arcade, 1996.
• Hurt, Henry. Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1985.
• Jones, Howard. The Bay of Pigs. New York: Oxford, 2008.
• Kaiser, David. The Road to Dallas: The Assassinatin of John F. Kennedy. Cambridge: Harvard, 2008.
• Kantor, Seth. Who was Jack Ruby? New York: Everest House, 1978.
• Kerr, Philip. The Shot. New York: Pocket Books, 2000.
• King, Stephen. 11/22/63. New York: Scribners, 2011.
• Kurtz, Michael. Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historical Perspective. Nashville: University of Tennessee, 1982.
• ___. The JFK Assassination Debates: Lone Gunman versus Conspiracy. Lawrence: Kansas, 2006.
• Lane, Mark. Rush to Judgmen: A Critique of the Warren Commission’ s Inquiry. New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1966.
• ___. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? New York: Avalon, 1991.
• ___. Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.
• Lehrer, Jim. Blue Hears. Washington: Public Affairs, 1993.
• Lifton, David. Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York: Macmillan, 1980.
• McAdams, John. JFK Assassination Logic: How to Think about Claims of Conspiracy. Washington: Potomac Books, 2011
• McCarry, Charles. The Tears of Autumn. New York: Dutton, 1974.
• McKnight, Gerald D. Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why. Lawrence: Kansas, 2005.
• Mallon, Thomas. Mrs. Paines Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy. New York: Harcourt, 2002.
• Manchester, William. The Death of a President: November 1963. New York: Harper and Row, 1967.
• Marrs, Jim. Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy. New York: Carroll and Graff, 1987.
• Meager, Sylvia. Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, and the Report. New York: Random House, 1967.
• Melanson, Philip H. The Murkin Conspiracy: An Investigation into the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Praeger, 1989.
• ____. Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and U.S. Intelligence. New York: Praeger, 1990.
• Mellen, Joan. Farwell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the case should have changed History. Washington: Potomac Books, 2005.
• Menninger, Bonar. Mortal Error. New York: St. Martins, 1992.
• Morely, Jefferson. Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA. Lawrence: Kansas, 2008.
• Newman, John. Oswald and the CIA. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1995.
• North, Mark. Act of Treason: J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1991.
• ___. Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia and the Murder of President Kennedy. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.
• Posner, Gerald L. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. New York: Random House, 1993.
• Stephen C. Rabe. The Most Dangerous Area in the World: John F. Kennedy Confronts Communist Revolution in Latin America. Chapel Hill: North Carolina, 1999.
• Jim Rasenberger. Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs. New York: Scribners, 2011.
• Russo, Gus and Stephen Molton. Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder. New York: Bloomsbury, 2008.
• Scheim, David E. Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy. New York: Shapolsky, 1988.
• Scott, Peter Dale. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK. Los Angeles: California, 1993.
• Sides, Hampton. Hellhoud on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin. New York: Doubleday, 2010.
• Summers, Anthony. Conspiracy. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1980.
• Talbot, David. Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. New York: Free Press, 2007.
• Tanenbaum, Robert K. Corruption of Blood. New York: Signet, 1995.
• U.S. Government. Report of the Warren Commission. New York: Bantam, 1964.
• Vincent, E. Duke. The Camelot Conspiracy: A Novel of the Kennedys, Castro, and the CIA. New York: Overlook, 2011.
• Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Red Heat: Conspiracy, Murder, and the Cold War in the Caribbean. New York: Henry Holt, 2011.
• Wills, Garry and Ovid Demaris. Jack Ruby. New York: DeCapo, 1994.
• Waldron, Lamar with Tom Hartmann. Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005.
• ___. Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination: Robert Kennedy, the Mafia, and the Assassination of Martin Luther King. New York: Counterpoint, 2009. 
• Wrone, David R. The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2003.