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The Kennedy Assassination Cover-Up

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To anyone thinking about reading this book, I would like to make a few suggestions.
1)If you can, find and read Gibson's first Kennedy book, "Battling Wall Street", before reading this book. Not absolutely necessary, but it sets Gibson's basic ideas in motion.
2)After having read the two Gibson books, begin some basic research on Nelson and David Rockefeller, John J McCloy, and Allen Dulles, particularly in regards to their relationships to an american institution known as the cia, another organization known as The Council on Foreign Relations, and their ties to these groups and each other. A Cary Reich book on Nelson, for example, has some information on the brother's cia involvement.
3)Connect the dots.
4)Case Closed!

The great JFK assassination research community, after forty years of wandering around in what the great cia asset Kenneth Rahn calls a "quagmire", apparently still remains clueless as to how to even begin to think about the Kennedy assassination.
Fortunately for these space cadets, and for the rest of us, there are some people who have left a few clues for us to pick up.
Sociologists like G William Domhoff and Donald Gibson are pointing in the direction of the true causes for the president's assassination. Domhoff's books on the power elite in this country are a good beginning for the material Gibson presents in his two books.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has some basic background on the murder, enough to know of the continuing massive cover-up, and who is now wondering on what line of research to pursue next.
This book will give you some leads.

Adult, sophisticated, and unillusioned, Gibson has produced an essential volume for anyone seriously interested in the coup that removed John F. Kennedy from office - and much else beside. (The book is worth buying for his passages on Richard Sorge alone.)

His first concern is to demonstrate who compelled an opposed LBJ to convene what became known, entirely misleadingly, as the Warren Commission; he ends by seeking to explain why. His case for Eastern Establishment centrality to the cover-up is convincingly made. So, too, his case for Kennedy's economic and political radicalism as the inter-related roots of Eastern Establishment hostility.

Elsewhere in the book's course, he comprehensively demolishes the work of the establishment's left-wing gatekeepers - most predictably the risible Noam Chomsky, less expectedly, but more welcomely, Peter Dale Scott, the subtlest of them all - and offers compelling evidence for the continuity in US establishment practices: Chomsky and Scott had predecessors, and Gibson correctly identifies at least one of them; veto by assassination and smear emerge as the American elite's norm in the face of charismatic centre-left politicians.

He is equally dismissive of the Right's heroes: Tailgunner Joe, for example, couldn't distinguish establishment tree from Commie wood. But here we come to an area of weakness. If Acheson and circle could persuade LBJ to launch a commission he didn't want, how come they couldn't silence the Wisconsin Senator? To put it another way, who within the Eastern Establishment licensed McCarthy et al publicly to assail Acheson and circle? Was the Eastern Establishment really as united as Gibson insists?

Still, it is a measure of this book's worth that such adult questions are begged. Buy it!