Michael L. Kurtz is professor of history and dean of the graduate school at Southeastern Louisiana University and the author of Crime of the Century: The Kennedy Assassination from a Historian's Perspective, the first book-length scholarly study of the subject.
"A smart, engaging history of the stormy debate surrounding the
death of President John F. Kennedy. This is a book you can trust on
a topic fraught with controversy."--Douglas Brinkley, Director of
the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization at Tulane
University"Provides a skillfully balanced and up-to-date summary of
the views supporting the lone assassin and conspiracy sides of the
JFK assassination controversy, as well as new evidence that revises
our understanding of Oswald's associations and actions. If I were
teaching a course on the JFK assassination, this book would
definitely be near the top of my reading list."--Gerald D.
McKnight, author of Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission
Failed the Nation and Why
"Kurtz offers a superior account. He has spent four decades
researching the assassination, and the result is this balanced
appraisal of the varying theories, from the lone gunman--'magic
bullet'--premise to those conspiracy theories that cannot be
dismissed as the ramblings of kooks. Kurtz himself favors
conspiracy and includes convincing evidence, from previously
classified documents released after the 1992 President John F.
Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, that reveals CIA,
FBI, Secret Service, and Warren Commission cover-ups. Intriguing
accounts bolstering the author's conclusions include details
relating to Lee Harvey Oswald, the Cuban-Mafia connection, the
bumbling autopsy of the slain President, and the controversial
roles of Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, and Warren Commission
members Arlen Specter and Gerald Ford. Highly
recommended."--Library Journal (starred review)"It is refreshing to
see an academic historian turn his attention to this subject. . . .
Whether one agrees completely with all of Kurtz's arguments or not,
it is time for historians to take back some of the ground that has
been seized by the sensationalists."--Journal of American History
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