The Best Book on the JFK Assassination I’ve Ever Read

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Off the Shelf By Michelle Howry    |   Wednesday, November 19, 2014 The 2009 book JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE has become a classic among Kennedy fans, presidential historians, peace activists, and conspiracy buffs (an unlikely coalition of readers, to be sure!). In it, author Jim Douglass outlines, with meticulous detail and carefully sourced notes, the steady progression of John F. Kennedy from a war-hawk who brought the world to the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, into a president who was steadily turning toward a policy of lasting peace. At the time of his assassination, claims Douglass, Kennedy was growing disillusioned by the growing influence of the military industrial complex in American foreign policy. In fact the author asserts that, had he lived, Kennedy would have likely de-escalated the growing war in Vietnam that came to define the 1960s. (Just imagine, Douglass says, how different America would be today if the Vietnam War had wound down by the mid-Sixties.) More