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Robert Kennedy was aware of Oswald and his connection to the FBI before the assassination. RFK put Oswald under surveillance and had his Cuban associates tracking Oswald's movements during the summer of 1963.
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Lee Oswald was not a loner but a government agent who worked not only for the New Orleans FBI office, but for U.S. Customs. Oswald was closely connected to CIA-sponsored anti-Castro figures in New Orleans at the International Trade Mart, that included Clay Shaw, David Ferrie and a Cuban associate of Shaw's named Juan Valdes.
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Government documents reveal that the FBI and CIA actively worked with a number of journalists who “covered” the Garrison investigation, including reporters with Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post, as well as a government operative ostensibly employed by NBC television. An FBI document reveals J. Edgar Hoover directing his field offices to “Give Garrison nothing!”
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The massive cover-up began north of Baton Rouge when Oswald, in the company of Shaw and Ferrie, applied for a job at the mental hospital in Jackson, LA. Mellen has the only known interview with the director of the hospital at that time, Dr. Frank Silva.
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 A Farewell to Justice
Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History
AUTHOR: JOAN MELLEN
From the new evidence in the National Archives' JFK Assassination Records Collection and interviews with over one thousand people, author Joan Mellen in her comprehensive new book A FAREWELL TO JUSTICE demonstrates how the cover-up began in Louisiana months before President Kennedy was shot in Dallas.
Biographer Joan Mellen met New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison in 1969. His relentless search for the truth about what happened to President Kennedy made a deep impression upon her. In 1997, Mellen started to work on the story of Garrison's life.
Her biography turned into the story of Garrison's investigation and then into a new investigation of the assassination itself.
Working
with thousands of previously
unreleased documents and drawing
on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking
out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official
to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s
murder.
Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing President Kennedy. A FAREWELL TO JUSTICE reveals
that Oswald was no Marxist
and was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well
as with U.S. Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison’s
investigation reached the highest levels of the U.S. government.
Garrison interviewed various
individuals involved in
the assassination, ranging from Clay Shaw and CIA contract
employee David Ferrie to a Marine cohort of Oswald named Kerry
Thornley, who was also a Defense Intelligence asset. Garrison’s
suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted
in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro
Cuban asset, and a young
runner for the conspirators, who speaks openly here for the
first time.
Building upon Garrison’s effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies’ roles in both a president’s
assassination and its cover-up,
set in motion well before the actual events of November 22,
1963.
This book will become a landmark.
As Mellen explains in the Preface, on the 40th Anniversary of President
Kennedy's death in 2003, a Gallup Poll verified that twice as many
people believed that the CIA was responsible for the assassination
as believed that Oswald, a man without a motive, acted alone.
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