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| Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | xvii |  
| Preface R. Cardona . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | xix |  
| Introduction E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 1 |  
| Letter to Vincent J. Salandria April 5, 1995
 E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 9 |  
| APPENDICES |  
| I | Speech at American University June 10, 1963
 John F. Kennedy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 39 |  
| II | Concerning the Facts and Consequences of the Tragic Death of President
 John F. Kennedy, November 23, 1963
 Fidel Castro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 51 |  
| III | Analyses of the Warren Commission’s Evidence and Conclusions
 Vincent J. Salandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 87 |  
|  | The Warren Report Analysis of Shots, Trajectories, and Wounds:
 A Lawyer’s Dissenting View
 Vincent J. Salandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 89 |  
|  | A Philadelphia Lawyer Analyzes the Shots, Trajectories and Wounds
 Vincent J. Salandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 99 |  
|  | The Warren Report? Vincent J. Salandria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 117 |  
|  | The Bullet Holes in the President’s Jacket and Shirt
 E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 173 |  
| IV | Internal Data on the United States Government’s Immediate Reaction
 to the Assassination
 E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 179 |  
| V | Oswald and U.S. Intelligence Christopher Sharrett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 193 |  
| VI | A “Political Translation” from Isaac Don Levine’s Mind of an Assassin
 E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 199 |  
| VII | The Nation and the Warren Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 205 |  
|  | A Summary of The Nation’s Editorial Policy from the Assassination to
 the Warren Report
 E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 207 |  
|  | The Truth is Too Terrible Fred J. Cook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 217 |  
| VIII | The Work of Ray Marcus Excerpts from Addendum B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 235 |  
|  | Truman’s Warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 237 |  
|  | I.F. Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 239 |  
|  | A.L. Wirin and the Liberal Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 239 |  
|  | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 248 |  
|  | Five Professors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 248 |  
|  | The New York Times, CBS, and the CIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 252 |  
| IX | The McCloy/Zorin Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 255 |  
| X | The Khrushchev-Castro Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 261 |  
|  | Letter to Fidel Castro, January 31, 1963
 Nikita Khrushchev . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 263 |  
|  | Discussion of Khrushchev’s Letter to Castro E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 279 |  
| XI | Notes on the Dynamics of Public Denial in the Assassination
 E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 281 |  
|  | On the Theory of a Black Star at the Center of our Culture
 and Certain Psychological Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 283 |  
|  | On the Psychological Process of Denial by Journalists When Confronted
 with Salandria’s Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 283 |  
|  | The Battle of Belief Against Knowledge in the Struggle over Oliver Stone’s film JFK . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 286 |  
|  | With Regard to Salandria’s Correspondence with Chomsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 286 |  
|  | The Vietnam Diversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 288 |  
|  | The Centrality of Kennedy’s Cuban Policy to the Motivation for the Assassination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 289 |  
| XII | Two Dialogues E. Martin Schotz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 293 |  
|  | Kennedy-Dulles Dialogue in Heaven: The Logic of War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 295 |  
|  | Einstein-Sonrobe Dialogue: A Search for the Logic of Peace and the
 Unified Field Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 301 |  
| XIII | With Hegemony and Intervention There Can Be No Peace or
 Social Development
 Fidel Castro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 | 311 |  
| References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 317 |  
| Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | 321 |  
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Addendum B, xviii, 22, 205, 235-54, 288
Aitmatov, Chinghiz, 35
 Alperovitz, Gar, 249, 250
 African National Congress, 30, 31
 Angleton, James, 289, 290
 Atsugi Base, 195
 Attwood, William, 28, 290
 
 
Banister, Guy, 197
“Bay of Pigs” (Playa de Giron), 78, 298
 Bernstein, Carl, 252, 253
 Bishop, Maurice, 291
 “Black Star,” 283, 287
 Bosch, Juan, 291
 Bohrman, Stan, 248
 Bromberger, Selwyn, 249, 250
 
 
Cardona, R., xvii, XX 
Castro, Fidel, 6, 9, 21, 30, 51, 53, 69-71;
 anti-Castro Cubans, 74-80, 83;
 falsely linked to Oswald, 12, 68, 72, 79, 80;
 Khrushchev letter to, 25, 263-80;
 relations with Kennedy, 25, 27, 28, 74-76, 290;
 speech on Kennedy assassination, 6, 9, 10, 51-86;
 speech to U.N. conference, 34, 311-16;
 China, 33, 261, 279, 280, 290;
 alliance with ultra-night in the U.S., 26;
 role in U.S.-Cuban Missile Crisis, 265;
 split in socialism, 267, 268, 271, 279-80
 Chomsky, Noam, 14-16, 21, 23, 25, 249-51, 280, 287-89, 291
 see also left/liberal establishment
 see also pseudo-debate
 CIA, 4, 5, 6, 195, 198, 220, 224, 229, 237-39, 297;
 and anti-Castro Cubans, 69, 83;
 and Oswald, 6, 195-98;
 in Latin America, 34;
 liberal establishment’s relation to, 21-23, 31, 32, 210, 212, 214;
 motive in Kennedy assassination, 25, 288-91, 295-300;
 orchestration of Orwellian control, 4, 10, 11, 13, 14, 228, 287;
 public’s relation to, 5, 18-21, 31, 32;
 relation to Isaac Don Levine, 201-03;
 relation to Jacob Cohen 228, 229;
 relation to the Mafia, 220;
 relation to The New York Times and CBS, 252-54;
 relation to the NKVD, 202;
 role in Kennedy assassination, 2, 9, 13, 16, 18-21, 24, 80, 210-12;
 “rogue elephants” and pseudo-debate, 13;
 use of term “CIA,” 2
 civil rights movement, 34
 Clark, Ramsey, 131, 164-66
 Cockburn, Alexander, 15
 see also left/liberal establishment
 colonialism, 34
 Committee of Correspondents, 1-3, 9, 16, 199, 235, 281
 communism, 24, 32, 33, 44, 75, 76, 80, 82, 275, 279, 295-301;
 anti-communism, 24, 32, 33, 62, 66, 83, 84, 197, 202, 203, 197
 Connally, Governor John F.
 see Salandria analysis of wounds, shots, and trajectories
 conspiracy theorists, 11
 Cook, Fred, 17, 22, 205, 217, 226, 227, 247;
 conflict with The Nation, 217-33
 coup d’etat, 18
 Cousins, Norman, 28
 Crane, Stephen, vii
 Cuba, 26, 34, 59, 65, 68, 69, 70, 77-81, 83, 197, 210, 246, 263-70, 272-78;
 and anticolonialism, 33, 311-15;
 and Khrushchev, 263-80;
 and Warren Commission, 246;
 Kennedy policy toward, 24, 25, 28, 60, 62, 63, 74-76, 84, 251, 289-91;
 missile crisis, 24, 25, 28, 30, 39, 261, 279, 280, 289;
 moral challenge, 25;
 post-assassination policy toward, 64, 66, 71, 85, 188;
 split in socialism, 26
 
 
Dean, Robert, 1, 2 
de Klerk, F.W., 30
 democracy, 26, 27;
 American, 5, 7, 16-19, 21, 23, 37, 31-24, 288, 296-98;
 political, 3, 89, 184;
 social and economic, 3, 34, 226;
 socialist, 276
 deMohrenschildt, George, 197
 disarmament, 29, 30, 42, 47, 48, 60, 81, 257-60, 273
 Dreyfus, Alfred, 247
 DuBois, W.E.B., 27
 Dulles, Allen, 24, 148, 219, 220, 228, 246;
 and CIA, 11, 202, 203, 211, 221, 253, 254, 280, 289-91;
 and CBS, 254;
 and I.F. Stone, 240-241;
 and Isaac Don Levine, 11, 201;
 and Marina Oswald, 201;
 and The New York Times, 253;
 and Warren Commission, 148, 201, 211, 219, 220, 228, 246;
 dialogue with Kennedy in Heaven, 24, 295-300
 
 
“Einstein, Albert,” 301-09 
El Toro Air Station, 195
 Epstein, Edward J., 31, 226, 227
 Esquire, 225
 
 
Fair Play For Cuba Committee, 65, 66, 68, 69, 79, 83, 197 
FBI, 69, 80, 83, 107, 114, 126, 173, 189-91, 196-98, 209, 210, 214, 219,
 220, 223, 224, 229, 230, 232, 241, 245
 Ferrie, David, 197
 Field, Maggie, 242
 Fonzi, Gaeton, xi, xvii, 1, 2, 135 284;
 interview with Arlen Spector, 173-77
 Fourth International, 202
 
 
Garrison, District Attorney James, 13, 17, 18, 198, 252, 286
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 29, 30
 
 
“Jim Crow,” 26
justice, xvii, xix, 19, 34, 303, 308, 309,315
 
 
Katzenbach, Assistant Attorney General Nicholas, 10, 179, 298, 299; 
memorandum for Mr. Moyers, 188-89;
 letter to Chief Justice Earl Warren, 190-92
 Kennedy, Attorney General Robert, 7, 10, 29, 179, 230
 Kennedy, President John F., assassination of, xi, xvii, xix, 2-7, 9, 10, 12,
 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23-34, 183-5, 187-92, 202, 203, 211, 213-17, 220, 222,
 224-27, 230-32, 235, 239, 245, 246, 248, 250, 251, 280, 286-88;
 bullet holes in shirt and jacket (FBI photographs), 174, 175;
 discussion, 11, 173-177;
 Castro analysis of Kennedy and assassination, 51-86;
 correspondence with Khrushchev, 28;
 “Dialogue with Dulles in Heaven,” 24, 295-300;
 on peace, 39-49;
 policies, 13, 24-31, 207, 255, 276, 289, 290;
 Salandria analysis of wounds, shots, and trajectories, 87-172
 Khrushchev, Nikita, 76;
 correspondence with President Kennedy, 28;
 correspondence with Robert Kennedy, 29;
 letter to Castro, 6, 25, 26180;
 rapprochement with Kennedy, 24, 28-30, 48, 255, 289, 290
 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 34, 230, 232, 241, 249
 Kissinger, Henry, 280
 “Knowledge versus Belief,” xi, 11, 283-87
 
 
left/liberal establishment, 6, 15, 16, 22, 32; 
role in the coverup, 14-23, 207-33, 239-51
 see also pseudo-debate
 Legal Intelligencer, xviii, 1, 10, 89-98
 Levine, Isaac Don: on Trotsky assassination, 11, 12;
 political translation of, viii, 199-203;
 role with Marina Oswald and Allen Dulles, 201
 Liberation, xviii, 1, 10, 87, 99-172, 216
 Life, 110-12
 Los Angeles Free Press, 244
 Los Angeles Times, 238, 245
 lynchings, 26
 
 
Macmillan, Harold, 48
“Magic Bullet” (Commission exhibit #399), 2, 19, 173, 141-51
 Malcolm X, 7, 15, 32, 34
 Mandela, Nelson, 30, 31
 Manning, Robert, 187
 Marcus, Raymond, xvii, xviii, 1, 6, 11, 14, 22, 205, 235, 237, 288;
 excerpts from Addendum B, 235-54
 Marx, Karl, 82
 Masefield, John, 41
 McCloy, John J., 29-31, 255;
 McCloy-Zorin Agreement, 6, 29, 30, 255-60, 280, 289
 McWilliams, Carey, 1517, 2022, 205, 250;
 conflict with Fred Cook, 217-33
 see also left/liberal establishment
 Meagher, Sylvia, 198
 media, 2, 5, 6, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 21, 22, 203, 213, 231, 235, 248, 253,
 286-88, 291, 297
 Melanson, Philip H., 198, 254
 Mercader, Ramon, 201-03
 Moore, J. Watson, 198
 Morrissey, Michael, 1, 2, 14, 23, 25
 Moyers, Bill, 188, 189, 289
 
 
Nation, 6, 15-17, 20-22, 205, 219, 244, 247; 
editorial policy on the assassination, 207-16;
 conflict with Fred Cook, 217-33
 see also left/liberal establishment
 National Guardian, 242
 New Republic, 252
 Newman, John, 14
 see also pseudo-debate
 Nixon, Richard, 280
 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, 28, 47, 60, 81, 84, 289;
 test moratorium, 48
 
 
Operation Strongback, 195 
Orwell, George, ix
 Orwellian, 4, 11, 13, 33
 Oswald, Lee Harvey: as patsy, 10, 82, 179-92, 203, 217-23, 242, 247;
 and the pseudo-debate, 11, 12, 14;
 and the CIA, 6, 20, 79, 80, 83, 193-98, 201, 209-11, 214, 254;
 and the Warren Report, 89, 94, 97, 98, 213, 214, 216, 221-23, 
        240, 243, 245, 287;
 as false leftist, 10, 64-74, 79, 80, 82, 83
 Oswald, Marina, 67, 75, 182, 201
 
 
Packer, Herbert, 213-16 
Paley, William, 254
 see also CIA and CBS
 Parenti, Michael, 26
 Pax Americana, 41
 peace, 13, 24, 26, 29, 35, 56, 58, 60, 81, 84, 85, 251, 270, 271,
 273, 274, 276, 279, 293;
 and justice, 34, 311-15;
 logic of, 301-09;
 Kennedy on, 41-49;
 peace movement, 35;
 peaceful coexistence, 24, 25, 31, 271, 274-76, 280
 see also McCloy-Zorin Agreement
 Philbrick, Herbert, 245, 247
 Playboy, 225
 Pope John XXIII, 24, 28
 Posner, Gerald, 14
 see also pseudo-debate
 pseudo-debate, 11, 13, 17;
 and Ball, Joseph, 242, 243;
 and Cohen, Jacob, 177, 227-29;
 and Mailer, Norman, 14;
 and Newman, John, 14;
 and Posner, Gerald, 14;
 and Prouty, Fletcher, 14;
 and Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House 
        of Representatives, 13;
 “typical reporter,” 20, 283-86
 see also Nation
 Prouty, Fletcher, 14
 see also pseudo-debate
 psychological dynamics: acceptance, 18-20, 23, 26;
 addiction, 32;
 anti-social conduct, 20;
 denial, 4, 19, 20, 281, 283;
 clinical psychiatry, 15, 19;
 confusion, xi, 12, 19, 214, 217, 261, 286, 287;
 family dynamics, 19, 20;
 identity, 46, 181, 182, 184, 193, 196, 284
 
 
 
Ramparts, 225, 226
Ray, James Earl, 241
 Reconstruction, 5, 33
 Robeson, Paul, 27
 Rolling Stone, 252, 253
 Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, 212
 Ruby, Jack, 191, 197, 213
 Rusk, Dean, 187
 
 
Salandria, Vincent J., xi, xvii, xviii, xix, 1, 2, 6, 87, 117, 173, 
177, 179, 188, 216, 235, 250, 251, 261;
 analysis of the Warren Report in Legal Intelligencer, 89-98;
 analysis of the Warren Report in Liberation, 99-172;
 April 5th letter from Schotz, 9-35;
 additional correspondence from Schotz, 281-91;
 encounter with Jacob Cohen, 177, 227-29;
 correspondence with Chomsky, 287-89;
 correspondence with Pierre Salinger, 183-87;
 correspondence with The National Archives, 183, 185, 186;
 correspondence with Theodore White, 181-83;
 correspondence with The White House, 186
 Salinger, Pierre, 183-87
 Scott, Peter Dale, 198
 Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives,
 xviii, 2, 13, 188, 189, 192, 235
 see also pseudo-debate
 Selvin, Herman, 243, 246
 see also left/liberal establishment
 Sharrett, Christopher, xvii, xviii, 1, 2, 193, 195
 Shaw, Clay, 18, 197
 social and economic development, 311-15
 Sonrobe, King Malcolm W.E.B. Ali, 301-09
 Soviet Union, 30, 39, 79, 240, 246, 257, 261, 264, 266, 272, 274, 276-78;
 attempt to link the Soviet Union to the assassination, 64-68,
 72, 81, 83, 85, 187, 196;
 President Kennedy’s attitude toward, 24, 42-47, 207, 208, 251;
 Soviet-China split, 26, 267, 271, 279, 280;
 U.S. and Soviet conjoint interests, 2, 7, 29, 33
 Specter, Arlen, 89-91, 95, 97, 98, 109, 120-23, 129-31, 134-39, 147-50,
 152, 153, 160, 16266, 168-71;
 interview with Fonzi, 173-77
 Stanton, Frank, 254
 see also CIA and CBS
 Stone, I.F., 15, 16, 21-23, 205, 239-42, 244, 245, 247, 250
 Stone, Oliver, 18, 286-88
 Sulzberger, Arthur Hays, 253
 see also CIA and New York Times
 Symington, Stuart, 289
 
 
Third World, 33, 267, 289-91, 314 
Trotsky, Leon, 11, 201, 202
 True, 225
 Truman, Harry, 10, 237-39
 
 
United Nations, 6, 10, 24, 28, 30, 34, 46, 51, 62, 75, 208,
255, 257, 259, 260, 275, 290;
 Castro speech to, 311-16
 U.S. State Department, 28, 57, 67, 71, 72, 190, 196, 197, 210,227
 
 
Vietnam, xviii, 2, 13-15, 28, 56, 249-51, 280, 287, 288
 
 
Warren, Chief Justice Earl, 17, 23, 140, 214, 216, 220, 246, 289
Warren Commission, xix, 1, 6, 10-12, 14, 15, 17, 20-23, 31, 188,
 189, 198, 201, 205, 207-09, 211-16, 218, 233, 240, 242,
 244-46, 252, 254, 284, 287;
 Commission drawing of the back of the President (Exhibit 386), 135;
 Commission drawing of side view of President (Exhibit 385), 134;
 Humes autopsy face sheet (Exhibit 397), 133;
 Salandria analysis of, 87-172
 Weisberg, Harold, 198
 White, Theodore H., 179, 181-87
 Wilson, Woodrow, 41
 Wirin, A. L., 22, 23, 242-47, 250
 see also left/liberal establishment
 
 
 
Zapruder film, 22, 93-95, 100, 103, 104, 106, 107, 111, 112, 145, 
146, 150, 151, 154, 155, 176, 223, 224, 235, 248
 Zinn, Howard, 249
 Zorin, Valerian, 6, 29, 30, 255, 257, 280, 289;
 McCloy-Zorin Agreement, 255-260
 
 
 
 
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