Description Using primarily information provided in the Navy\'s official investigation of the death of America\'s first Secretary of Defense, which had been kept secret for 55 years, The Assassination of James Forrestal thoroughly demolishes the widely believed view that Forrestal\'s fall from a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 22, 1949, was an act of suicide.
It concl.
The official report, in fact, did not conclude that Forrestal committed suicide.
Description Using primarily information provided in the Navy\'s official investigation of the death of America\'s first Secretary of Defense, which had been kept secret for 55 years, The Assassination of James Forrestal thoroughly demolishes the widely believed view that Forrestal\'s fall from a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital on May 22, 1949, was an act of suicide
