JFK and Sam: The Connection Between the Giancana and Kennedy Assassinations [Hardcover]

Antoinette Giancana (Author), John R Hughes (Author), Thomas H Jobe (Author), John R. Hughes (Author), Thomas H. Jobe (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1, 2005

JFK AND SAM is unique from other books on the Kennedy assassination. Written by an insider with access to key figures, it names the assassins and traces the assassination team's movements on November 22, 1963, and discusses the team leader's life and his taped confession.

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About the Author

Antoinette Giancana is the daughter of Mafia chief Sam Giancana, who controlled Chicago in the late 1950s and 1960s. She is the author of Mafia Princess, which was made into a movie with the same title featuring Susan Lucci and Tony Curtis. John Hughes is director of clinical neurophysiology and professor of neurology at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. He is the author of six books and more than five hundred scientific articles about the brain and its functions. Thomas H. Jobe is professor of psychiatry and associate director of neuropsychiatry at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. He is coauthor of Lyndon Baines Johnson: The Tragic Self, A Psycho-Historical Portrayal.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 234 pages
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing; 1St Edition edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1581824874
• ISBN-13: 978-1581824872
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #308,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Giancana, but not Giancana alone., April 14, 2006

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W. J. Dankbaar (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This is an outstanding book. It reads nicely and easily and gives a good overview of the case, also for beginners. This should not come as a surprise from me as I conversed a lot with author John Hughes and shared some of my research and materials for this book. Nevertheless a few tiny errors slipped into the last two chapters that deal with confessed grassy knoll shooter James E. Files. Such as that he used a .221 bullet, while in fact it was a .222 bullet. But these small errors are forgivable since they don't take away from the big picture, although the involvement of the CIA and the highest elements of US government could have been emphasized more. But then again, any child can grasp that Organized Crime alone could not have executed this coup d' état, not to mention its cover-up.

Five stars.

Wim Dankbaar

- author "Files on JFK"

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Who knew?, March 5, 2006

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M. Bracy "the new girl" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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Absolutely astonishing. Being new to the whole Kennedy assignation field of study this book was my first introduction to this intriguing subject. I was so fascinated by the information presented by the book I was even inspired to purchase the DVD of the taped interview with "Deadeye". I would highly recommend this book largely due to the fact it has kindled an interest in me I never thought I would have. I am still amazed at the idea that the man responsible for the shooting of JFK is alive and well in a prison in Joliet, IL. Even more remarkable is the thought that the world doesn't know

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What really happened at Dallas!, November 21, 2005

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This review is from: JFK and Sam: The Connection Between the Giancana and Kennedy Assassinations (Hardcover)

The most important fact discussed in this book is JFK's violent lurch to his left after being struck in the right temple by a bullet fired from the area of the grassy knoll (or the picket fence behind it).

It was at least 12 years before the public was permitted to see the complete sequence of the Zapruder film including this reaction to the impact. If this complete version of the film had been available at the time of the assassination, people would simply not have bought the official conclusion that Kennedy's wounds resulted from a shot from behind because it is obvious that the shot had to come from in front.

Apologists for the single-bullet theory have tried to explain-away this movement claiming it was due to some kind of neurological reflex but the author - a professor of neurology who is director of clinical neurophysiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago and who has authored seven books and more than 500 scientific articles about the brain and its functions - says this kind of reflex simply does not exist. He cites in addition two other experts in the field (page 193)supporting this claim.

There is much detail revealed on the motives of the mob figures involved, as well as apparent involvement of J. Edgar Hoover and at least some members of the CIA. The participation of Sam Giancanna's daughter, Antoinette in the authorship of the book adds considerable interest and altho there could be a better editing job (some un-necessary repitition is noted), the book makes sense throughout and even reveals the author's opinion that a confessed felon currently in an Illinois penitentiary is the real assassin.

This book is important.