by James Douglass, 2008, Orbis/Maryknoll Books.
This is a profoundly healing book, especially for those who lived through it. It is not just a reiteration of all the awful details of the assassination, nor just a brilliant crime book (who did it?). It is also a brilliant treatise on the culture of militarism that infected our country then and still infects it--a culture so sick that hundreds of thousands of casualties on our own east coast was considered "acceptable" and ADVOCATED, in order to annihilate Russia, and that conspired to and murdered the president because he wouldn't agree and took another path (diplomacy, peace). This militarism is still with us, casually slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, without the slightest regard for their innocence, and is now drone-assassinating people all over the world, without the slightest regard for the rule of law--summary executions without benefit of trial, and with lots of "collateral damage."
It's a book full of understanding of then and now. He doesn't much go into now. He leaves it to us to see it for ourselves. But he so thoroughly documents how and why JFK was killed, that it heals the souls of those who mourn JFK--or healed mine, in any case--and sets you on your feet NOW, for a good, hard look at things NOW. It's like doing rehab, I guess. No more illusions. No more hiding. Face reality!
Great book!
Peace 
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