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  • On the Trail of the Assassins

  • One Man's Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy
  • Written by: Jim Garrison
  • Narrated by: Mark Kincaid
  • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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On the Trail of the Assassins

Written by: Jim Garrison
Narrated by: Mark Kincaid
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Jim Garrison’s classic account of his investigation and prosecution of the murder of JFK.

Almost 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his murder continues to haunt the American psyche and stands as a turning point in our nation’s history. The Warren Commission rushed out its report in 1964, but questions continue to linger: Was there a conspiracy? Was there a coup at the highest levels of government?

On March 1, 1967, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison shocked the world by arresting local businessman Clay Shaw for conspiracy to murder the president. His alleged co-conspirator, David Ferrie, had been found dead a few days before. Garrison charged that elements of the United States government, in particular the CIA, were behind the crime. From the beginning, his probe was virulently attacked in the media and violently denounced from Washington. His office was infiltrated and sabotaged, and witnesses disappeared and died strangely. Eventually, Shaw was acquitted after the briefest of jury deliberation and the only prosecution ever brought for the murder of President Kennedy was over.

Returning to audiences for the first time in years, On the Trail of the Assassins - the primary source material for Oliver Stone’s hit film JFK - is Garrison’s own account of his investigations into the background of Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy, and his prosecution of Clay Shaw in the trial that followed.

©2012 The Estate of Jim Garrison (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
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  • 2017-11-18

If there is 1 book you read it should be this one...

To date I’ve listened to about 25 books on the JFK assassination and followed it with interest for years. I could never understand why no one has thoroughly examined Oswald’s bizarre background or the backgrounds of his associates. To me, what he did in the year leading up to the assassination is extremely important to understand. This book is the first to really do that as Garrison was the only person to have ever brought charges in the murder. If there is one book you listen to on the JFK murder it should be this one.

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