A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination Oswald Was US Operative
"Where Ultimate Sacrifice contends that the plot to kill JFK was strictly a Mafia affair, Mellon demonstrates that it was primarily a CIA operation"
A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, And the Case That Should Have Changed History
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.
A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, And the Case That Should Have Changed HistoryPaperback
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.
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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By Scout on January 8, 2006
Format: Hardcover
After having read Ultimate Sacrifice, Joan Mellon's book was a joy. It is by far the better written book literarily and offers a superior balance of investigative research. By contrast, Ultimate Sacrifice comes off as more CIA apologism and disinformation, trying to sell out and blame the Mafia while continuing to conceal their own involvement.
Mellon's book will suffer from the vast character assassination that the CIA aimed at her subject, Jim Garrison and his criminal investigation into the murder of John Kennedy. Owing to CIA and FBI efforts, many people failed to take Mr. Garrison seriously. Mellon thoroughly rehabilitates Garrison, proving him to be the leader of a courageous group of state law enforcement people who took on the federal government and particularly the CIA in their attempt to identify and bring to justice the real murderers of JFK.
In the process of writing about Garrison and his investigation, Mellon covers some of the same ground and furthers the evidence against the CIA. She examines Garrison's witnesses (called and uncalled in the trial of Clay Shaw) and then takes his research a step further with followup revelations from those and others. With some key witnesses, they later admitted that their testimonay to Garrison were lies, under pressure from the CIA. She also links numerous people to that organization and develops a sound thesis that mid and high level CIA personnel were the decision makers and implementors of the assassination of the American President. She details their extensive attempts to cover up their crime through later congressional investigations right up to the present.
Where Ultimate Sacrifice contends that the plot to kill JFK was strictly a Mafia affair, Mellon demonstrates that it was primarily a CIA operation.Read more ›
Mellon's book will suffer from the vast character assassination that the CIA aimed at her subject, Jim Garrison and his criminal investigation into the murder of John Kennedy. Owing to CIA and FBI efforts, many people failed to take Mr. Garrison seriously. Mellon thoroughly rehabilitates Garrison, proving him to be the leader of a courageous group of state law enforcement people who took on the federal government and particularly the CIA in their attempt to identify and bring to justice the real murderers of JFK.
In the process of writing about Garrison and his investigation, Mellon covers some of the same ground and furthers the evidence against the CIA. She examines Garrison's witnesses (called and uncalled in the trial of Clay Shaw) and then takes his research a step further with followup revelations from those and others. With some key witnesses, they later admitted that their testimonay to Garrison were lies, under pressure from the CIA. She also links numerous people to that organization and develops a sound thesis that mid and high level CIA personnel were the decision makers and implementors of the assassination of the American President. She details their extensive attempts to cover up their crime through later congressional investigations right up to the present.
Where Ultimate Sacrifice contends that the plot to kill JFK was strictly a Mafia affair, Mellon demonstrates that it was primarily a CIA operation.Read more ›
Updated 12-16-08
WHO WAS LEE HARVEY OSWALD?
THE WECHT INSTITUTE,
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, PITTSBURGH, PA.
OCTOBER 5, 2008
By Joan Mellen
My particular subject this morning is Lee Harvey Oswald, that figure whose identity seems ever to recede beyond the reach of conventional historical research. The Warren Commission decided, with breathtaking defiance of the reality, that he was a sociopath, a person who “does not appear to have been able to establish meaningful relationships with other people…a man whose view of the world has been twisted…[a] troubled American citizen..[an] unstable character whose actions are highly unpredictable.” Moreover, this man murdered President Kennedy without the assistance of confederates, clearly in contrast to reality.Oswald as we examine his life was, for one thing, never alone.
At the other extreme is the view that Oswald was a “legend” created within U.S. Intelligence, a composite of two people, one born in the USA with that name, and another, of Eastern European origin, trained from an early age as an agent. That there happens to be a CIA CCD (Central Cover Division) fuels this scenario, along with inconsistencies, such as that Oswald boasted two report cards for the fall term of 1954, one from the Bronx, the other from Louisiana.
Drawing on what we know as certain, the Oswald who is recognizable to us was born in New Orleans, and seems rarely to have been deprived of the company of others. Certainly, he was not a loner in Dallas where he was offered the friendship of CIA asset and so-called oil geologist (he had no degree in the subject) George de Mohrenschildt. De Mohrenschildt reported to the Domestic Contact Service (00) in Dallas on Haitian matters, the existing record shows. The quintessential unreliable narrator, a year before his death, de Mohrenschildt targeted Haroldson Lafayette Hunt as the sponsor of the Kennedy assassination. Coincidentally, H. L. Hunt was unique among Texas oil men in being a lifelong antagonist of the CIA, as has been his son, Nelson Bunker Hunt. It was, perhaps, de Mohrenschildt’s final Agency assignment.
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Oswald in New Orleans sometimes let the façade drop, as in his assertions that he planned to kill Fidel Castro, and in that fact that he made no contact with any known socialist or Marxist. This at once signaled to the Tulane student left, as several student radicals of the day told me, that he was a fraud. I interviewed Hugh Murray, several times, and Bob Heller. They had been arrested for attempting to integrate Woolworth’s and other places in New Orleans. At Tulane, they found Oswald’s “Fair Play For Cuba” leaflet. At once they knew that Oswald was no leftist.
What leftist made no contact with other leftists? Oswald ignored the Southern Conference Education Fund, led by James Dombrowski (discussed in “Jim Garrison, His Life and Times”), CORE, and even the pale Council on Peaceful Alternatives. What leftist hired people to hand out leaflets with them, as Oswald did? The answer, as CORE activist Bob Heller put it to me, was “none in history.
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