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"In JFK and the Unspeakable Jim Douglass has distilled all the best available research into a very well-documented and convincing portrait of President Kennedy's transforming turn to peace, at the cost of his life. Personally, it has made a very big impact on me. After reading it in Dallas, I was moved for the first time to visit Dealey Plaza. I urge all Americans to read this book and come to their own conclusions about why he died and why -- after fifty years -- it still matters.” -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Right now, I ask all of you—please please, read JFK and the Unspeakable! I cried all night reading it, and didn’t sleep a wink. It is a book that could make us stand up and change the world, right now. Maybe we can save the world before it blows up. Really” —Yoko Ono

About the Author

James W. Dougleass is a longtime peace activist and writer. He and his wife Shelley are co-founders of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, WA, and Mary's House, A Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Birmingham, AL.

Hardcover: 510 pages
Publisher: Orbis Books; First Edition edition (April 30, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1570757550
ISBN-13: 978-1570757556
Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 1.4 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 758 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #73,167 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #344 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > United States > US Presidents
- #378 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Philosophy > Ethics & Morality
- #418 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Communication & Media Studies

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Tom L.

Not only the best JFK book I've ever read, but the best book I've read, period!

February 20, 2016

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Not only the best JFK book I've ever read, but the best book I've read, period! Like author James Bradley wrote on the book cover, it changed the way I view the world. Thoroughly and meticulously researched, it lays out not only JFK's assassination plot, before, during, and after, but his legacy, and the state of our government in a way you won't see anywhere else. I owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Douglass for opening my eyes. I still can't believe I was so ignorant in regards to our government and politics prior to reading this book. I recommend this to anyone interested in knowing the truth. It will change the way you see the world, unless that is you go into it with a pre-set agenda or bias, and unfortunately there are many people like that. But luckily there are more of us that simply want to know not only what happened and why, but why the government and military act the way they do and create their policies, then and now. By the way, after reading this book you probably won't be that interested in watching the news anymore, if you even were before, or watching political debates; at least that was the case for me, and you'll understand why when you're done with the book.

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The Seminal Work of Kennedy Assassination Research.

October 14, 2015

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The sheer breadth and scope of Kennedy assassination research can be daunting. It’s a subgenre of nonfiction rife with inaccurate, poorly-sourced, and hard-to-access drivel. Even the most touted works (e.g., “Reasonable Doubt,” “Crossfire,” and “Reclaiming History”) are saturated with poor scholarship and misinformation. Yet there is one thread of research — built upon by authors like John Newman (“Oswald and the CIA”), James DiEugenio and Lisa Pease (“The Assassinations”), Jefferson Morley (“Our Man in Mexico”), David Talbot (“Brothers” and “The Devil’s Chessboard”), and Gaeton Fonzi (“The Last Investigation”) — that commands both clarity and credibility. This line of research — which probes Lee Harvey Oswald’s involvement with American counterintelligence — builds upon the work of the 1978 House Select Committee on Assassinations and offers the clearest and most level-headed perspective on the domestic assassinations of the 1960s. Within this body of work, there is no single book that paints a clearer, deeper, and more moving account of the history surrounding the Kennedy assassination than that of James Douglass’ “JFK and the Unspeakable.” It is, bar none, the single most readable, most concise, and most compelling depiction of that dark chapter in history. That’s why most, if not all, of the aforementioned authors regard “Unspeakable” as the seminal Kennedy research book. It’s easy-to-access (even for beginners) and impossible to put down.

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David Gaudrault

One of the Best JFK Assassination Books Ever Written

April 4, 2017

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One of the top 3 books I've read on the JFK assassination, and I've read hundreds of them. David Lifton's Best Evidence is the essential book on the how. James Douglass' JFK and the Unspeakable is all about the why and the who. Great book.They are unbeatable in tandem. Also look for the epic Inside the AARB by Doug Horne, Legacy of Secrecy by Lamar Waldron, and JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy by L. Fletcher Prouty. If you decide to take my advice, read them in this order: 1. Best Evidence 2. JFK 3. Legacy of Secrecy 4. JFK and the Unspeakable 5. Inside the AARB. After reading 1-4, you will have the best you can really get unless you wish to delve into the important, but at this point, old hat concerning ballistics, trajectories, single bullet theory, location of shooters, etc. There is also a Doug Horne interview on YouTube with Dino Brugione On CIA's NPIC facility (National Photographic Interpretation Center) that is a must see to establish alteration of the Zapruder film and others the weekend of the assassination and beyond.

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May 6, 2017

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Assassination occurred when I was 17, served in military from 20 to 24, always thought the Warren Commission report was strange, visited Dealey Plaza at age 21 and was stunned by the whopper we were fed as an official account of the murder. This book is both depressing for the breadth of the misdeeds and the ultimate cover-up, but encouraging by affirming that there are those who are able to uncover the dirt and inform the public.

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Blessed are the peacemakers ...

August 22, 2015

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... for they shall be murdered.

JFK and the Unspeakable is well-researched, well-documented, well-written, and very persuasive. Its central thesis: facing the horror of nuclear war, Pres. John F. Kennedy had turned from global war to peace, which put him at odds with the cold-warriors of the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the military-industrial complex, so the CIA, viewing him as a traitor, coordinated and carried out his murder, and other parts of the Government, including LBJ, J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, the military, and the Warren Commission, helped cover up and suppress the ugly truth. Interestingly, even if the author, James W. Douglass, is viewed as overstating JFK's turn from cold-warrior to peace seeker that is of little consequence to his argument that the CIA thought him less a cold-warrior than a traitor who coddled communists and threatened national security, and therefore assassinated him on November 22, 1963.

The book's descriptions of the Kennedy/Khrushchev/ Pope John XXIII interaction in the interest of peace stand out, but the author's reliance on a May 1, 1962 twenty minute meeting between a group of Quakers and JFK is overblown, with even the author conceding he has "no evidence" JFK "ever even referred again" to that meeting (p. 326 in 50th Anniversary Ed.). The book leaves you contemplating how the Viet Nam War and the Cold War could have been resolved more quickly had JFK lived and, implicitly, how America would be different from what it is today.

JFK and the Unspeakable can't but help improve one's view of and estimation of JFK and rue both the ever-increasing and secret power of the national security state and the constant war-footing this country now is on. The Kennedy assassination was a horrible event in American history, even more horrific than most people suspect.

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