Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy
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Authors: Jim Marrs
JIM MARKS
The great masses of the people will more easily fall
victims to a great lie than to a small one .. .
-Adolf Hitler
Mein Kampf
Acknowledgments
Preface
A. DALLAS-The Stage is Set
B. DEALEY PLAZA-November 22, 1963
The Texas School Book Depository
PART II: "Means, Motives, and Opportunities"
A. LEE HARVEY OSWALD (Assassin or Patsy?)
Ferrie and Oswald's Library Card
B. RUSSIANS (Soviets and Solidarists)
Robert E. Webster-Another Oswald?
C. CUBANS (Pro and Anti-Castro Cubans)
E. AGENTS (The CIA and Other Intelligence Agencies)
DeMohrenschildt and the Agency
The French Connection to the Assassination
F. G-MEN (J. Edgar Hoover's FBI and the Secret Service)
G. REDNECKS AND OILMEN (Right-wing extremists and Texas Millionaires)
Nixon and the JFK Assassination
The Military-Industrial Complex
The Man Who Was to Kill Oswald
The Strange Saga of Roger Craig
The David Lifton Investigation
Jack Ruby-Gun-Runner and Agent
The Woman Who Foresaw the Assassination
Did Ruby and Oswald Know Each Other?
The Shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald
The Mysterious Death of Jack Ruby
G. THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS
The Dallas Police Radio Recording
H. WAS OSWALD REALLY OSWALD? (The Oswald exhumation)
When a final "truth" concerning the assassination of President John F.
Kennedy is accepted by the general population of the United States, it
will have to be acknowledged that this truth came not from the government,
the legal profession, or the news media-rather that truth will have come
from the legion of individual citizens who have refused to accept superficial
explanations.
No one person will be credited with such a final "truth" because the
names of the people who have fought to learn what really happened to
President Kennedy-often at the risk of public ridicule and worse-have
grown too numerous to enumerate.
However, most researchers would include the names of Penn Jones,
Jr., Mark Lane, Vincent Salandria, and Harold Weisberg as leaders of
that first generation of critics who raised serious questions about the
government's official lone-assassin theory.
Special recognition will go to the two leading researchers, the late
Sylvia Meagher, whose incisive dissection of the Warren Commission
Report set the standard for assassination research and Dallas's Mary
Ferrell, that indefatigable collector of assassination lore.
Acknowledgment also will have to be given to Judge Jim Garrisonregardless of history's final judgment on his performance as district
attorney-for the abundance of assassination information gleaned through
his ill-fated investigations in New Orleans.
Others who have contributed greatly to the advancement of assassination
knowledge-in no particular order-include Josiah Thompson, Col. Fletcher
Prouty, George O'Toole, Gary Shaw, Larry Harris, Richard E. Sprague,
Carl Oglesby, Mort Sahl, Seth Kantor, Edgar Tatro, Fred Newcomb, Greg
Lowrey, Jack White, Gary Mack, Earl Golz, Anthony Summers, David
Lifton, Bernard Fensterwald, William Turner, Gaeton Fonzi, Mark Allen,
Jeff Goldberg, Dick Russell, Alan Weberman, Paul Hoch, Peter Dale Scott,
Robert Sam Anson, Jerry Rose, Robert Groden, and Harry Livingston.