What are your top 5 JFK assassination books?

[Charles Collins]

I don't see the kindle version on Amazon? I'd be suspicious of it though. The audible version of the book is not of the entire book but only the first section of the book. It might be that the kindle version only covers the first section too. That would be no good to you.

Thanks, kindle stuff is sometimes elusive when trying to find it. Sometimes I find it on Amazon but not in the kindle store (through my kindle). Or, as in this case, the other way around. Reclaiming History is in the kindle store (through my kindle) for $29.99. I already downloaded a free sample which includes the table of contents. The table of contents is complete, including the source notes. The only disclaimer I see says that some images are not displayed due to permissions issues. The enhanced typesetting is indicated to be “enabled” which, I think, means that the source notes in the text would be live links to the actual source notes. (But I am not sure about that.) Anyway, it is tempting to buy it for that aspect even though I have the printed version. I just haven’t pulled the trigger yet.

[W. Tracy Parnell]

The enhanced typesetting is indicated to be “enabled” which, I think, means that the source notes in the text would be live links to the actual source notes. (But I am not sure about that.) Anyway, it is tempting to buy it for that aspect even though I have the printed version. I just haven’t pulled the trigger yet.

Yes, the Kindle version has links to the source notes.

[Charles Collins]

Yes, the Kindle version has links to the source notes.

Thanks!!

[Mitch Todd]

So hard to get this down to five but here are mine:

Conspiracy - Anthony Summers
Oswald And The CIA - Newman
Our Man In Mexico City - Jeff Morley
Marina And Lee - By Mrs Oswald
The Death of A President - William Manchester

What are yours and why?

I don't think I can break it down to just five, and I'd organize the list a different way. These are what I would call the essentials:

Foundational Works
   The WCR
   The HSCA Report
   Death of a President -- Manchester
   Marina and Lee --McMillan

First Generation Criticism
   Rush To Judgement and  A Citizen's Dissent -- Lane
   Accessories After the Fact --Meagher
   Inquest -- Epstein
   Six Seconds in Dallas -- Thompson

The Garrison Case
   On the Trail of the Assassins -- Garrison
   Counterplot -- Epstein
   American Grotesque --Kirkwood
   The Garrison Case -- Brenner
   False Witness -- Lambert
   Let Justice Be Done -- Davey

Later Books that Summarize Later Conspiracy Thinking
   Crossfire --Marrs
   Conspiracy/Not in Your Lifetime -- Summers
   JFK and the Unspeakable -- Douglass

(I should add)Rebuttals to WC Criticism
   Reclaiming History -- Bugliosi
   You Be the Jury/Final Disclosure -- Belin
   Case Closed -- Posner  (BTW, CC is the weak sister in this threesome)
 
Stuff About Stuff About the Assassination
   A Cruel and Shocking Act -- Shennon
   Praise from a Future Generation -- Kelin
   The Last Investigation -- Fonzi

Collections of Source Material
   The WCH
   The HSCA Hearings and Appendices
   Pictures of the Pain  -- Trask
   The Killing of a President -- Groden
   In the Eye of History -- Law

There is one more book, that I think is the best JFK assassination book ever, not because I agree with it's conclusions, but because it takes a fairly outre' notion and makes a surprisingly gripping personal narrative about it. That book is Best Evidence.

   


   
   

[John Tonkovich]

Books?

Best "authors" were at EF:
Thomas Purvis
Robert Charles Dunne
Mark Knight

You could learn a great deal by reading the old threads of these folks.
And reading the various testimonies and reports from the HCSA, at al, in the 70s.
Nothing like Phillips and others talking about the Guatemala coup in 54, or knocking off that general in Chile, all in the name of...bananas and copper.   

All the books I see listed are authored by a fine group of money grubbing rogues and charlatans. Particularly awful are Posner ( plagiarist), Bugliosi ( he was a district attorney,..i.e. get the grand jury to indict a ham sandwich) Meyers ( ( fabulist) Priscilla ( CIA asset, actually applied to work there) .  The "conspiracy" folks aren't much better. John " Two Oswalds" Armstrong, David " Two Coffins" Lifton ( pompous , to boot),  etc.

Instead of facts, with all these authors, we get some facts, sourced, some unsourced stories, and much conjecture. And theories.

No theories. Just facts. Like the excellent thread started by the OP on those library books. Thanks.

[John Mytton]

Books?

Best "authors" were at EF:

JohnM

[Jerry Organ]

There is one more book, that I think is the best JFK assassination book ever, not because I agree with it's conclusions, but because it takes a fairly outre' notion and makes a surprisingly gripping personal narrative about it. That book is Best Evidence.

Yes, it's compelling in that regard. My all-time favorite is "Six Seconds in Dallas". I lean towards the photographic works. Cutler had a good one with "Seventy Six Seconds in Dallas" in 1978, as did Life Magazine with "The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963" in 2013.

These books were good reads for me:

• The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond  -  Anthology, 1976
• JFK First Day Evidence  -  Savage, 1993
• "They've Killed the President!"  -  Anson, 1975
• Citizen's Arrest: The Dissent of Penn Jones Jr.,  -  Nash, 1977
• A Mother in History  -  Stafford, 1966
• Farewell America  -  1968
• JFK: The Case for Conspiracy  -  Groden, Model, 1977
• Presumed Guilty  -  Roffman, 1976
• Photographic Whitewash  -  Weisberg, 1976

[Steve Edwards]

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned 'Accessories After The Fact' by Sylvia Meagher, published in 1967.
I'm working my way through it at the moment, and I think it's terriffic!