Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 
Abbreviations 
Preface 
PART ONE: DEEP POLITICS, VIETNAM,
AND THE ASSASSINATION
1. The Kennedy Assassination, Deep Politics,
and Denial 
2. Kennedy, Johnson, and Vietnam:
A Tale of Two NSAMs 
3. The Dialectical Cover-Up 
4. The Key to the Cover-Up:
The FBI, COINTELPROS, and the Case 
PART TWO: LEE HARVEY OSWALD
5. Oswald, Intelligence, and the Mob
in New Orleans 
6. Oswald, Intelligence, the Mob,
and the Banana Companies 
7. Mexico, Somoza, and the Martino-
Rosselli Story 
8. Ruby and Narcotics:
The Heart of What Was Suppressed
9. Ruby's Background:
Narcotics, the Teamsters,
and the Racing Wire Service
10. The Nationally Protected Drug Traffic
and Ruby's Relation to It
11. Blakey and the Politics of Fighting Crime
12. Ruby, Narcotics, and the Establishment
PART FOUR: THE PLOT AND THE COVER-UP
13. The Coalitions against the Kennedys
14. Intrigue, Murder, Cover-Up:
The Continuity of Manipulation
15. Oswald as an Informant for the Government
16. Oswald as a Double Agent for Hoover
17. Army Intelligence and the Dallas Police
18. The Assassination and the Great Southwest
Corporation
19. Who Killed JFK? The Deep Political System
Notes
Bibliography
Index
 

About the Author

Peter Dale Scott is a Lannan Literary Award-winning poet and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also coauthor (with Jonathan Marshall) of Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (California, 1991), among other books.

Reviews

"Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy. . . . A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed."--"Kirkus Reviews

"Staggeringly well-researched and intelligent overview not only of the JFK assassination but also of the rise of forces undermining American democracy. . . . A kind of Rosetta stone for cracking open the deepest darkness in American politics. Will test the most well-informed."--"Kirkus Reviews

Over the past 30 years, more than 2000 books about the Kennedy assassination have been published. While Posner and Scott come to different conclusions, their studies are important additions to the field. Providing a detailed account of Oswald's life from childhood on, Posner shows him to have been a psychologically disturbed malcontent who was unhappy with both the U.S. and Soviet political systems. Posner counters claims of the major conspiracy theorists point by point and backs up his arguments with documentary evidence, recent interviews, and up-to-date computer analysis. Faulting conspiracy theorists for equating coincidence as evidence, Posner concludes that there was no other gunman and no conspiracy. Scott, a Berkeley English professor, approaches the assassination in its sociopolitical context, focusing on why it happened rather than on who did it. The phrase ``deep politics'' refers to the secret networks operating within and outside government agencies. While they do not constitute a unified shadow government, they comprise a coalition of individuals who cooperate in order to maintain the status quo. Accordingly, Scott examines Ruby's links with organized crime, army intelligence and JFK's planned withdrawal from Vietnam, J. Edgar Hoover's misuse of his authority, and the collusion of international drug traffickers with the CIA and FBI. Scott believes that Oswald and Ruby were part of this convoluted network. Both these titles offer important insights and are highly recommended for most libraries. Case Closed was previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/93.-- Gary D. Barber, SUNY at Fredonia Lib.