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Title: Live By The Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death ofJFK by Gus Russo ISBN: 1-890862-01-0 Publisher: Bancroft Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.45 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Falters on the assassination, but consists of much more
Comment: A more recent book by Leary and Seymour holds updated information that punches a hole in Russo's "Oswald did it alone" thesis. If that were all (or primarily) the content of this book, one might dispense with it. But it isn't. The main focus is on the terrorist campaign waged against Cuba by the Kennedys. Here the book contains a great deal of concisely documented material. This is then plausibly raised as something which could have motivated Oswald. When going through the actual evidence of the assassination, Russo points out relevant evidence which discredits the "grassy knoll" thesis. This has been further supplemented by Leary and Seymour, who likewise reject the popular "grassy knoll" thesis. Yet having come up with enough motives for why someone might be compelled to carry out assassination, and having discredited one very popular thesis, Russo seems satisfied in letting a question go. There is a point when, in discussing the assassination, he simply says that it would take too long to explain right here how he became convinced of the "single bullet theory" and so he is giving a "thumbnail sketch" in Appendix A. At this point, one can detect some logical incompleteness, although he does discredit some of the more popular myths about the assassination, but it isn't surprising to see Leary & Seymour producing newly released evidence supporting a wider "assassination plot" view. What is more to the point about this book is that it is centrally focused on the Kennedy role in the terrorist campaign against Cuba. On this matter, it corrects a number of errors in the earlier (still worthwhile) book by Hinkle and Turner, such as the point where RFK feigns surprise at the CIA being involved with the Mafia against Cuba. As documents have been released since the Stone film, the Camelot myth has become more and more what used to be called "an old wives' tale." This book sheds much light on why, but more complete information is needed if one is specifically looking at the assassination.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't trust this book!
Comment: Gus Russo is a man of many views, all of them contradictory. In the early 1990's, he embraced every conspiracy theory known to man, and was even listed as a "consultant" on Oliver Stone's JFK. He was a firm believer in the Stone school of conspiracy theories. He also endorsed Robert Morrow's dubious book "First Hand Knowledge" with a cover blurb. Then, came his conversion. After Gerald Posner's "Case Closed", Russo realized there was more money to be made in endorsing the opposite, i.e. "official", point of view espoused by the Warren Commission. Russo reversed himself 180 degrees and began hanging around with former CIA types who had been involved in the assassination plots against Fidel Castro (and possibly JFK as well). He was flattered by their attention and bought into their propaganda and disinformation. Hence this book. The book contains several theories, all contradictory: 1) Oswald did it, acting alone, 2) Castro was behind the assassination, and 3) It was all Bobby Kennedy's fault!! Russo also tried to persuade Seymour Hersh, and the Assassination Review Board, that the real assassin was a Cuban intelligence agent, but failed to convince either. Russo is being used, and is not to be trusted. His sources are dubious at best and have their own agenda. Don't believe everything you read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bobby Kennedy nearly caused Armageddon!!
Comment: This book is a remarkable piece of scholarship that provides the most thorough backdrop yet to the JFK assassination. I found the most significant part of the book to be the deep politics going on in the JFK administration. My worldview has been forever changed in learning that the character deficits of Bobby Kennedy and his obsession with getting Castro ultimately forced the Cubans to accept Soviet missiles for their own protection. Although I was taught that the Kennedy brothers heroically averted Armageddon in November 1962, it was their arrogance and inexperience that had actually pushed us to the brink in the first place! Thank you, Mr. Russo!!
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Title: The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo ISBN: 1582341761 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Pub. Date: 24 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Case Closed by Gerald Posner ISBN: 1400034620 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Contract on America: The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy by David E. Scheim ISBN: 082173833X Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America by Sam and Chuck Giancana ISBN: 0446364126 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Double Deal : The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster by Sam Giancana, Michael Corbitt ISBN: 0060195851 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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