JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass

Author:James W. Douglass
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
ISBN: 9781439193884
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2010-10-19T05:00:00+00:00

Acknowledgments

I am deeply grateful to the friends who read and critiqued this work in progress: Bob and Janet Aldridge, Robert Aitken, Marya Barr, Karol Schulkin, Sandy Bishop, Rhea Miller, Frank Bognar, Robert Bonazzi, Clare Carter, Jim Crosby, John Dear, Ronnie Dugger, Dot and John Fisher-Smith, Gaeton Fonzi, Michael Green, Elizabeth Hallett, Leon Holman, Steve Jones, Chester Layman, Barbara Ledingham, Roger Ludwig, Anne Fullerton, Staughton and Alice Lynd, Gerald McKnight, Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, William Hart McNichols, Marietta Miller, Don Mosley, David Oliver, Laurie Raymond, Bert Sacks, Vince Salandria, Marty Schotz, Peter Dale Scott, Ladon Sheats (during his last days on earth), Paul Smith, John Stewart, Mark Taylor, Terry Taylor, Louie Vitale, Kim and Bill Wahl, Edward Walsh, Patrick Walsh, John Williams, Don Wilson, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Howard Zinn, and Barrie Zwicker. What I have seen through their eyes, questioning mine, has helped me reconsider and revise many points along the way. They are not responsible for my enduring mistakes.

Terry Taylor gave me my first computer. Sisters Mary McGehee and Genevieve Sachse gave me its successor, and John Fievet the successor’s successors. Rick Ambrose, Jerry Levin, and John Fievet have been my computer doctors and advisers. Deepest thanks to them all. Were it not for Rick, his Internet searches, and his and Lexie’s patience through my countless consultations, much of the research for this book would not have occurred.

The first person who peppered me with questions about JFK’s death, while we watched a Seattle Mariners’ baseball game decades ago, was my friend Joe Martin. He has never stopped pursuing those questions. I thank you, Joe, for not giving up on me when I didn’t see the connections you were making between Dallas and a succession of disturbing events since then.

For out-of-town research, I give thanks to Tim Murphy, a constant source of help, Tom Brejcha, Craig Tews, and the Thomas More Society in Chicago—and to Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness, and Voices for Creative Nonviolence for warm hospitality on my trips to Chicago to interview key witnesses.

Archivists and librarians have sustained this project at every step. At the National Archives in College Park, Maryland, Marty McGann answered patiently my many early morning phone requests for help. Stephen Plotkin and Sharon Kelly of the Research Room at the JFK Library in Boston helped graciously at long distance and during my visit there. Maura Porter and Michelle DeMartino of the JFK Library’s Declassification Unit facilitated my Mandatory Review Requests for Kennedy administration documents. Jim Lesar at the Assassination Archives and Research Center in Washington, DC, provided unpublished materials and documents, as did Regina Greenwell and Linda Seelke at the LBJ Library in Austin. Margaret Goodbody of the D.C. Public Library found for me old articles in Washington newspapers. At the Birmingham Public Library, Johnny Coley, Richard Grooms, and Jim Murray in Social Sciences, and Shirley Nichols in Inter Library Loans, were especially helpful. At the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Curator Wendy Chmielewsky copied for me documents from their file folder on the six Friends’

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