A Farewell To Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History - Hardcover

Mellen, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1574889737 ISBN 13: 9781574889734

Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy's murder.

Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing Kennedy. A Farewell to Justice reveals that Oswald, no Marxist, was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with U.S. Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison's investigation reached the highest levels of the U.S. government. Garrison interviewed various individuals involved in the assassination, ranging from Clay Shaw and CIA contract employee David Ferrie to a Marine cohort of Oswald named Kerry Thornley, who at the very least was a Defense Intelligence Agency asset. Garrison's suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, interviewed here for the first time by the author.

Building upon Garrison's effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies'roles in both a president's assassination and its cover-up, set in motion well before the actual events of November 22, 1963.

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Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than a thousand interviews, this book revisits the investigation of the New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted (in 1969) a suspect in the murder of President John F Kennedy.

Review:

"A FAREWELL TO JUSTICE is a fascinating and provocative book featuring one of the most unusual and compelling figures in the history of American jurisprudence. And though the book is massive, carefully researched, and intellectually persuasive, it also reads with the engaging particularity and narrative drive of an epic, tragic novel." - Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and author of A GOOD SCENT FROM A STRANGE MOUNTAIN

"A Farewell to Justice" is a fascinating and provocative book featuring one of the most unusual and compelling figures in the history of American jurisprudence. And though the book is massive and carefully researched and intellectually persuasive, "A Farewell to Justice" also reads with the engaging particularity and narrative drive of an epic, tragic novel.

Joan Mellen confronts and with keen analytical insight tackles the thorniest and most personal issues surrounding that most complex and larger-than-life man named Jim Garrison. She ultimately places in accurate perspective the role Garrison s investigation played in helping America understand the true significance of the assassination of President Kennedy, revealing why it s not history but a foreshadowing of events that brought us to these dangerous times in which we now live.

For seven years Joan Mellen, with determination and breathtaking courage, investigated and tested the original inquiry of District Attorney Jim Garrison into the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Single-handedly, she has taken that investigation far beyond where Garrison was able to go and has emerged from this terrifying underworld with astonishing revelations . The writing is taut and dramatic, the book indispensable.

Joan Mellen is a rare breed a biographer who writes with the passion of a truth-seeker, the skill of an artisan, and the attention to detail of a well trained scholar-researcher. She digs deep and she cares. I look forward to reading every book she writes.

The much-maligned Jim Garrison at last receives full vindication from Joan Mellen, whose own renewed investigation into the Kennedy conspiracy brings us ever-closer to the elusive truth of what really happened on November 22, 1963.

"A Farewell to Justice" is a mammoth reconsideration of Jim Garrison s investigation of the President s assassination in Dallas. As such, it is a grand guignol of Nawlins archetypes psycho-cops and sicko-spooks, corrupt pols and thugs and crusaders, oh my! A dark and sprawling book, it is packed with investigative leads, deeply researched and very very scary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1574889737
• ISBN 13: 9781574889734
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 468