A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination

by Philip Shenon

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  GOVERNMENT REPORTS

  Alleged Assassination
Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, An Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, United States Senate, Together with Additional Supplemental and Separate Views. 94th Congress, 1st session, Senate Report No. 94-465. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1975. (Church Committee)

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  Index

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  Abbreviations:

  JFK - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

  LBJ - Lyndon Baines Johnson

  LHO - Lee Harvey Oswald

  RFK - Robert Francis Kennedy

  WC - Warren Commission

  ABC News

  Adams, Francis “Frank”

  Air Force One

  Alexander, William

  Alvarado, Gilberto

  American Bar Association

  American Civil Liberties Union

  American Fact-Finding Committee

  Anderson, Clark

  Anderson, Eugene

  Anderson, Jack

  Andrews, Dean, Jr.

  Andrews Air Force Base

  Angleton, James Jesus

  anti-Castro plots and

  CIA Mexico City and

  death of

  death of Meyer and

  death of Scott and

  FBI and

  Nosenko and

  Slawson and

  Thomas allegations and

  WC and

  Whitten and

  anti-Castro activists

  anti-Communists

  Arbus, Diane

  Arévalo, Juan José

  Arlington National Cemetery

  Armas, Joaquin

  Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

  Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

  Army-McCarthy hearings

  Army Medical Corps

  Assassination Records Review Board

  Associated Press (AP)

  Atlanta Constitution

  autopsy report

  alleged alteration of

  errors in, and entrance wounds

  FBI memos and

  original report and notes destroyed

  photos and X-rays

  sketches and

  Aynesworth, Hugh

  Azque, Eusebio

  Baker, Bobby

  Baker, Marion

  Baldwin, John F.

  Ball, Joseph

  Baltimore Sun

  Barson, Philip

  Bayh, Birch

  Bay of Pigs invasion

  BBC

  Belin, David

  Belli, Melvin

  Belmont, Alan

  Benavides, Domingo

  Bernstein, Lester

  Bertrand, Clay

  Bethesda Naval Hospital

  Bethlehem Children’s Home

  Boggs, Hale

  Boonstra, Clarence

  Bork, Robert

  Borkin, Joe

  Boswell, J. Thornton

  Bouck, Robert

  Bradlee, Ben

  Branigan, William

  Brennan, Howard

  Brennan, William

  Breyer, Stephen G.

  Bringuier, Carlos

  British “Who-Killed-Kennedy?” Committee

  Brownell, Herbert

  Brown v. Board of Education

  Buchanan, Thomas

  Bugliosi, Vincent

  bullets. See also single-bullet theory

  autopsy and

  ballistics on

  Connally testimony and

  doctors’ testimony and

  early FBI report on

  found near Parkland stretcher

  fragments and

  Jacqueline Kennedy’s testimony on

  Lane on

  non-FBI experts examine

  third, not found

  trajectory and source of

  WC report and

  witnesses and

  Zapruder film and

  Bundy, McGeorge

  Burger, Warren

  Burkley, George

  Califano, Joseph

  California Medical Association

  Calvillo, Manuel

  Carousel Club

  Carr, Waggoner

  Carrico, Charles

  Carter, Jimmy

  Castro, Fidel. See also anti-Castro activists; pro-Castro activists; Cuba; Cuban embassy, Mexico City

  CIA plots to kill

  CIA spying on

  Coleman meets with

  Cook and

  Duran and

  FBI and

  Hoover letter on LHO and

  LBJ’s suspicions of

  LHO’s admiration for

  LHO’s offer to kill JFK and

  Mafia and

  Mann’s suspicions of

  Odio and

  RFK and

  Ruby and

  Rusk and Ford on

  Russell and

  threatens JFK in interview

  WC investigates

  Whitten and LHO link to

  Cavanaugh, Bart

  CBS News

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). See also specific individuals; operations; and stations

  actions of, post-assassination

  Alvarado and

  Angleton and

  anti-Castro groups and

  Bay of Pigs and

  Castro assassination plots and

  Castro surveillance by

  Church Committee on

  creation of

  Cuban programs of

  declassified files of

  domestic spying by

  Dulles ousted from

  Duran and

  evidence concealed by

  FBI letter on LHO threats to kill JFK and,

  Garrison and

  Garro connection suppressed by

  initial report to WC

  KGB and

  LBJ and

  LHO and possible link to

  LHO investigated by

  Manchester and

  Mann and

  Nosenko and

  Pearson warns Warren and LBJ about

  RFK’s fears of

  rumors about link to assassination and

  Russell and

  Scott’s retirement and death and

  secret classification and

  secret informants and

  Secret Service receives LHO report from

  Slawson and

  Thomas and

  Warren and

  WC Cuban documents request and

  WC files and

  WC investigation of

  WC liaisons with

  WC report and

  WC testimony and

  CIA Clandestine Servi
ces. See also WH-3

  CIA Dallas station

  CIA Mexico City station. See also Winston Scott; and other agents and informers

  actions of, on death of JFK

  Americans watched by

  cables on LHO and

  Cobb and

  conceals papers from WC

  Contreras-LHO tie and

  Cuban surveillance by

  Duran and

  FBI and

  FBI raw files on, read by Kelley

  LHO chronology by

  LHO surveillance and

  LHO and KGB and

  LHO threat to JFK and

  LIRING/3 and, on Duran

  Scott and

  Slawson and Coleman visit

  Thomas and

  WC investigation muddied by

  WC report and

  CIA Miami office

  Charles William Thomas Defense Fund

  Child, Julia McWilliams

  Childs, Jack

  Childs, Maurice

  Choaden, Michael C. (pseudonym of Phillips)

  Church Committee, see U.S. Senate

  Church, Frank

  Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

  Civil Rights Act (1957)

  Civil Rights Act (1964)

  civil rights movement

  Clark, Ramsay

  Cleveland, Grover

  Click, Darryl

  Cobb, June

  Colby, William

  Cold War

  Coleman, William Thaddeus, Jr.

  Castro meeting and

  drafts LHO chronology in Mexico

  Mexico City trip and

  Columbus Enquirer

  Conforto, Janet “Jada”

  Connally, John

  clothes of

  FBI report and

  Jacqueline Kennedy on

  as LHO target

  single-bullet theory and

  Specter and

  WC testimony of

  Zapruder film and

  Connally, Nellie

  Conroy, Edward A.

  conspiracy theories

  autopsy and

  Aynesworth and.

  Califano and

  CIA-Castro link and

  CIA Mexico City and Cuban connection

  Coleman Castro interview and

  Connally and

  Dallas police misstatements and

  de Morhenschildt and

  Epstein and

  European reception of

  Ford and

  government officials’ failures and

  growth of, after WC report

  Hoover and

  Lane and

  LBJ and

  Liebeler and

  Mann and

  Martin and

  Redlich and

  RFK and

  right-wing and

  Ruby and

  Russell and

  Scott memoir and

  Slawson and