The JFK Assassination Diary; My Search for Answers to the Mystery of the Century
Ines Talakic and Ena Talakic EJE Publications, Ltd. Inc., 2013. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Trade paperback. Unpaginated. Edward Jay Epstein (born in 1935) is an American investigative journalist and a former political science professor at Harvard, UCLA, and MIT.[1][2] He taught courses at these schools for three years.[3] While a graduate student at Cornell University in 1966, he published the book Inquest, an influential critique of the Warren Commission probe into the John F. Kennedy assassination. Epstein wrote two other books about the Kennedy assassination, eventually collected in The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend (1992). His books Legend (1978) and Deception (1989) drew on interviews with retired CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton, and his 1982 book The Rise and Fall of Diamonds was an expose of the diamond industry and its economic impact in southern Africa.[4] After teaching at Harvard, UCLA, and MIT, Epstein decided to pursue his writing career back in New York City. In 1973, he received his Ph.D. in government from Harvard University. He did his master's thesis on the search for political truth which later became a top-selling book. One of the most important original documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to be published on the 50th anniversary of the event. The never before published diary of Edward Jay Epstein's investigation into the assassination reveals startling new details. Epstein, one of America's most acclaimed investigative journalists and widely acknowledged as the premier expert on the assassination, while still an undergraduate at Cornell, interviewed the members of the Warren Commission and its staff of investigators, and obtained their key files. He was the only journalist, ever, to have gained this access. His full findings are disclosed here for the first time. In his investigation, Epstein also interviewed the top officials of the CIA, including at length the legendary chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton. He was the only journalist to interview Yuri Nosenko, the KGB officer who claimed to be Oswald's KGB case officer. Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney, who attempted to reopen the case, confided his methods and sources in Epstein. Epstein was, moreover, the last person to see George De Mohrenschildt, Oswald's mysterious White Russian friend, who he interviewed for hours until the moment when he took his secrets with him in death. The JFK Assassination Diary is the true story at last of the incredible answers Epstein unearthed in pursuit of the greatest crime of the 20th century. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Assassination, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JFK, Warren Commission, Conspiracy, CIA, James Jesus Angleton, Jim Garrison, Nosenko, De Mohrenschildt, Lee Harvey Oswald, Sylvia Odio, KGB, Richard Helms, Raymond Rocca
ISBN: 9781492831501
[Book #72818]
Price: $60.00