Description Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman--the Assassination of President John F.
It brings to light the complete, frequently shocking, story of the JFK Assassination and its aftermath..
Comprehensive, detailed, and informed by original sources, The Road to Dallas adds surprising new material to every aspect of the case.
They found it in Lee Harvey Oswald--the ideal character to enact their desperate revenge against the Kennedys.
Pushed to the wall, mob leaders merely had to look to the networks already in place for a solution.
The conspiracy to kill JFK took shape in response to Robert Kennedy\'s relentless attacks on organized crime--legal vendettas that often went well beyond the normal practices of law enforcement.
Inevitably those ties included the mob.
Meanwhile, Cuban exiles, right-wing businessmen, and hard-line anti-Communists established ties with virtually anyone deemed capable of taking out the Cuban premier.
The agency\'s links with the Mafia continued in the Kennedy administration, although the President and his closest advisors--engaged in their own efforts to overthrow Castro--thought this skullduggery had ended.
The CIA created a secretive environment in which illicit networks were allowed to expand in dangerous directions.
The seeds of conspiracy go back to the Eisenhower administration, which recruited top mobsters in a series of plots to assassinate the Cuban leader. government\'s campaign against organized crime, which began in the late 1950s and accelerated dramatically under Robert Kennedy; and the furtive quest of two administrations--along with a cadre of private interest groups--to eliminate Fidel Castro.
With deft investigative skill, David Kaiser shows that the events of November 22, 1963, cannot be understood without fully grasping the two larger stories of which they were a part: the U.
S.
This is the unvarnished story.
Kennedy was an appalling and grisly conspiracy.
Description Neither a random event nor the act of a lone madman--the Assassination of President John F
