A Farewell to Justice, Joan Mellen
A Farewell to Justice, Joan Mellen
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A Farewell to Justice
Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History

Author: Joan Mellen

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 23 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 07/04/2017


Synopsis

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s murder.

Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing Kennedy. A Farewell to Justice reveals that Oswald, no Marxist, was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with US Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison’s investigation reached the highest levels of the US government. Garrison’s suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, interviewed here for the first time by the author.

Building upon Garrison’s effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies’ roles in both a president’s assassination and its cover-up. In this revised edition, to be published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the president’s assassination, the author reveals new sources and recently uncovered documents confirming in greater detail just how involved the CIA was in the events of November 22, 1963. More than one hundred new pages add critical evidence and information into one of the most significant events in human history.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sheik on March 28, 2009

I knew several of the key players in this mostrous murder to stop JFK from pulling us out of Vietnam by 1965. I read every book on the killing....and Joan Mellen has filled in ALL the spaces , and it all adds up. If you want to know what's running our Country, and why we have no voice in it's policie......more

Goodreads review by Donald on October 15, 2007

I eagerly awaited the publication of Joan Mellen's "A Farewell To Justice.' As one of Jim Garrison's die-hard defenders, I had high expectations for this book, and after reading it, those expectations were simply not met. I have had exchanges with Joan on a JFK Forum, and we just agree to disagree a......more

Goodreads review by Donna on August 22, 2011

My head is spinning...disappointed in apparent absence of editorial oversight (did the editor even LOOK at the manuscript?) and as one of Joan Mellen's critics put it, "she threw sentences into the air and didn't care how the words landed" or something to that effect. The author is on the faculty of......more

Goodreads review by Elliott on February 23, 2017

Jim Garrison had the unenviable distinction of being the first public official to jump head first into three webs: the anti-Castro terrorists lead by the CIA; the Mafia-CIA partnership; and the CIA-press marriage. That Jim Garrison was a competent DA, and a clean politician (if a bit of a philandere......more