| Edition |
1st Carroll & Graf ed. |
| Description |
904 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 805-875) and index. |
| Summary |
A new investigation into President Kennedy's murder claims that his administration had planned a coup in Cuba to take place in December of 1963, a plan that backfired when Mafia elements that had infiltrated the coup plot decided to assassinate JFK. |
| Contents |
Part One. The Cuban Missile Crisis and C-day -- Harry Williams -- The C-day "plan for a coup in Cuba" -- AMWORLD: the CIA's portion of C-day -- The Kennedy men: Vance, Haig, and Califano -- Harry Williams, RFK, and the coup leader -- The "plan for a coup in Cuba" : December 1, 1963 -- The contingency plans -- "Playing with fire" -- The countdown for C-day begins: November 22, 1963 -- Harry Williams and the Cubans -- Manuel Artime -- Manolo Ray -- Eloy Menoyo -- Tony Varona -- Cuban-American troops on US military bases -- Che Guevara: a reassessment -- The other plots against Castro -- US "assets into Cuba" -- The Chicago and Tampa assassination attempts and C-day -- Did Bobby feel responsible? -- Pieces of C-day: Banister and Ferrie; Martino and Cain. |
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Part Two. Marcello, Trafficante, and Rosselli -- Ruby, Hoffa, heroin, and gun-running -- Nixon, Havana, and assassinating an Attorney General -- Guatemala: the mafia assassinates a president, the CIA stages a coup -- The Kennedys go on the attack -- Ruby, the Mafia, and the CIA help Castro -- 1959: CIA-Mafia plots and coup attempts -- The CIA turns to Hoffa -- Menoyo, Morales, and Phillips plan a coup -- Ruby, Trafficante, the Kennedys and "Jack La Rue" -- September 1959: Artime, Varona, and Ruby target Castro -- 1960 and 1961: new CIA-Mafia plots, the Bay of Pigs, and RFK's war against Marcello -- The war against the Godfathers and targeting RFK -- Shifting the target to JFK -- The CIA-Mafia plots, Operation Mongoose, plans to invade, and the Cuban Missile Crisis -- 1963: targeting Castro and the Mob targeting JFK -- Someone to take the fall: Lee Harvey Oswald -- Three Oswald riddles -- David Atlee Philips and fair play for Cuba, Marcello and Oswald, Oswald and Gilberto Lopez -- Targeting Harry Williams -- The French connection heroin network and the plan to kill JFK -- Oswald and the summer of 1963 -- Oswald and David Atlee Phillips: his next assignment -- Oswald in Mexico City: a CIA operation compromised -- Fall 1963: Rosselli, Robert Kennedy, and Ruby -- More Kennedy pressure on the Godfathers -- The Godfathers' plan to kill the President. |
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Part Three. Laying the groundwork for Chicago -- The Cuba contingency plan and the phony Cuban agent -- Three weeks before Dallas: The Chicago assassination attempt -- JFK's Chicago motorcade: cancelled at the last minute -- Laying the groundwork for Tampa -- Mid-November 1963: the President prepares a message for the coup leader -- November 18, 1963: The attempt to assassinate JFK in Tampa November 19-21: Regrouping for Dallas -- November 22: JFK is murdered -- RFK's suspicions and C-day is put on hold -- Another Mob hit in Dallas devastates Bobby -- The legacy of secrecy. |
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Assassination.
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 (OCoLC)fst00035588
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 (OCoLC)fst00052277
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Kennedy, John F.
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Kennedy, Robert F.
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Kennedy, John F., 1917-1963. (NL-LeOCL)068645325
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968. (NL-LeOCL)068661894
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Cuba.
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Cuba -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963.
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Cuba -- History -- 1959-1990.
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Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.
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Assassination. (OCoLC)fst00818962
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Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
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Cuba. (OCoLC)fst01205805
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Mord (DE-588)4040235-6
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Kubakrise (DE-588)4136402-8
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Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) (OCoLC)fst00884799
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| Chronological Term |
1959-1990
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Hartmann, Thom, 1951-
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| Added Title |
John and Robert Kennedy, the plan for a coup in Cuba, and the murder of JFK |
| ISBN |
9780786714414 |
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0786714417 |
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1582434239 |
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9781582434230 |
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