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

by Philip Shenon

State Department and

  Thomas and

  USSR and

  Walker and

  Warren and

  Warren asks Hoover, McCone, and RFK to refute

  WC internal debates on

  WC investigation and

  WC report and

  Contreras, Oscar

  Cooper, John Sherman

  Counsel for the Situation (Coleman)

  Cox, Archibald

  Craig, Walter E.

  Cronkite, Walter

  Cuba. See also Bay of Pigs invasion; Castro, Fidel; Cuban embassy, Mexico City

  Angleton and

  CIA and

  CIA and FBI suppress investigation of

  Coleman interviews Castro near

  Cook and

  Ford and

  LHO and

  Mann and

  missile crisis

  Odio and

  RFK and

  Ruby and

  Rusk and

  Russell and

  Scott on

  WC and

  Cuban Direcciön General de Inteligencia (DGI)

  Cuban embassy, Mexico City

  CIA surveillance of

  Contreras and

  Duran and

  Garro and

  LHO and

  LHO threat to kill JFK and

  Mann on

  Scott on

  WC staff visit

  Curry, Jesse

  Dallas coroner

  Dallas district attorney

  Dallas Morning News

  Dallas motorcade

  Dallas Police Department

  conspiracy theories and

  fails to protect JFK

  FBI and

  fingerprint evidence and

  Marina and

  LHO address book

  LHO arrest and

  LHO diary and

  LHO interrogation and

  Ruby and

  WC and

  witnesses and

  Dallas Times-Herald

  David, James R.

  Dealey, George

  Dealey, Ted

  Dealey Plaza

  Dean, Patrick

  Death of a President, The (Manchester)

  Defense Department

  de Gaulle, Charles

  DeLoach, Cartha “Deke”

  Democratic National Convention (1964)

  Democratic Party

  de Mohrenschildt, George

  Detroit Free Press

  Dewey, Thomas E.

  Diem, Ngo Dinh

  Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE)

  “Does Silence Mean Guilt” (Redlich)

  Dolan, Joseph

  Dominican Republic

  Dorticós, Osvaldo

  Doyle, John F.

  Drain, Vince

  Draznin, Julius

  Dulles, Allen

  Angleton and

  CIA liaison to WC and

  CIA-Mafia anti-Castro plot and

  initial FBI report and

  leaks to media and

  Liebeler on

  Marina Oswald and

  Phillips novel and

  Scott and

  Warren on

  Dulles, John Foster

  Duran, Horacio (husband)

  Duran, Ruben

  Duran, Silvia Tirado de

  Angleton and

  arrest and interrogation of

  CIA conceals LHO link to

  CIA LHO chronology and

  CIA report to Rusk on

  Cobb report on

  Contreras on

  interviews of 2013 and

  LIRING/3 on

  Mann on

  LHO visa requests and

  signed statement of

  Phillips on

  Slawson and

  Thomas and Garro story on

  Warren blocks interview of

  Duran Navarro, Lidia

  Echeverria, Luis

  Edgewood Arsenal

  Eide, Julia

  Einspruch, Burton

  Einstein, Albert

  Eisenberg, Melvin

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  elections

  of 1948

  of 1952

  of 1960

  of 1963

  of 1964

  of 1968

  Eliot, T. S.

  Ely, John Hart

  Emergency Civil Liberties Committee

  Epstein, Edward Jay

  Escobedo v. Illinois

  Esquire

  Express, L’

  Fair Play for Cuba Committee

  Fallon, Francis “Frank”

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). See also Hoover, J. Edgar; and specific agents and field offices

  ability of, to prevent assassination

  Angleton and

  anti-Communism and

  autopsy and

  ballistics and crime labs reports and

  CIA Mexico City Office and

  CIA plot to kill Castro and

  CIA’s Whitten and

  civil rights movement and

  classified files and

  collects information on public figures

  conceals information from Hosty

  conspiracy theorists and

  Cuban informants and

  Dallas investigation and

  Dallas police and

  de Mohrenschildt and

  desires quick end to investigation

  disciplinary action by

  Duran and

  early investigation of LHO

  established

  evidence concealed by

  Ford and

  Garro story to Thomas and

  Griffin and

  Hoover exempted from retirement from

  Hoover reviews documents sent to WC

  Hoover’s concern about WC report on

  Hoover’s early discussion of case with LBJ and

  initial report by

  Kelley as head of

  Kelley reviews files on assassination

  Lane and

  LBJ and

  leaks by

  LHO as lone assassin and

  LHO diary and

  LHO escape route and

  LHO in New Orleans and

  LHO in USSR and

  LHO-KGB meeting and

  LHO Marine career and

  LHO marksmanship and

  LHO rumored to be informant for

  Liebeler on

  Manchester and

  Mann and

  Marina Oswald and

  media charges of cover-up by

  Mexico City investigation and

  Nosenko and

  Odio and

  Olney blocked by

  Paine investigated by

  Pearson and

  Redlich investigated by

  RFK and

  Ruby and

  Russell and

  Scott and

  Secret Service not alerted by

  single-bullet theory and

  Slawson on Mexico City and

  subversives list

  Warren court and

  WC demands evidence reports from

  WC handling of classified documents and

  WC relations with

  WC report criticizes

  WC staff investigated by

  WC staff notices omissions by

  witnesses not questioned by

  Zapruder film and

  FBI Cleveland Field Office

  FBI Dallas Field Office

  Dallas police and

  evidence destroyed by

  fails to alert Secret Service

  Hoover disciplines

  LHO investigated by

  missing files on Mexico and

  not informed about LHO-Kostikov meeting

  Odio and

  WC report criticizes

  FBI Domestic Intelligence Division

  FBI Inspections Division

  FBI Laboratory

  FBI Mexico City Field Office

  FBI
New Orleans Field Office

  FBI San Juan, Puerto Rico Office

  FBI Security Index

  Feldman, Harold

  Ferrie, David

  Ferris, Nathan

  Finck, Pierre

  Fleming, Ian

  Ford, Gerald R.

  anti-Communists and

  background of

  classified documents and

  conspiracy theories and

  Cynthia Thomas and

  Dallas trip and

  FBI and

  first WC meeting and

  Hoover and

  Lane and

  leaks and

  WC final report and

  Liebeler draft and

  Marguerite Oswald and

  Marina Oswald and

  Nosenko and

  Olney opposed by

  outside advisers and

  Redlich attacked by

  Robert Oswald and

  Warren and

  WC staff and

  writes Portrait of the Assassin

  Fortas, Abraham “Abe”

  Fort Worth Star-Telegram

  Foul Foe, The (Scott)

  Fowler, Clayton

  Frankfurter, Felix

  Frazier, Robert

  Frazier, W. B.

  Freeman, Fulton

  Fremont-Smith, Eliot

  Gale, James

  Gambino family

  Gandy, Helen

  Garrison, Jim

  Garro, Albano

  Garro de Paz, Elena

  Genovese, Kitty

  German, Ella

  Giancana, Sam

  Gideon’s Trumpet (Lewis)

  Gideon v. Wainwright

  Goldberg, Alfred

  Goldberg, Arthur

  Goldwater, Barry

  Golitsin, Anatoly

  Goodpasture, Anne

  Good Shepherd, the (film)

  Goodwin, Richard

  Government Printing Office

  Graham, Katherine

  grassy knoll theories

  Greer, William

  Griffin, Burt

  Grover, Wayne

  Guerrero, Deva

  Guerrero Garro, Francisco

  Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  Gurney, Ed

  Guthman, Ed

  Hall, Loran Eugene

  Harlan, John Marshall

  Harriman, Averell

  Harriman, Marie

  Harris, Louis

  Helms, Richard

  CIA plot to kill Castro and

  WC testimony of

  Henty, G. A.

  Herndon, Bell

  Hidell, A. J. (alias of LHO)

  Hill, Clint

  HK-LINGUAL

  Hoffa, Jimmy

  Holland, Sterling M.

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  abuses of power and

  Angleton and

  CIA Mexico City station and

  CIA plot to kill Castro and

  civil rights leaders and

  conceals evidence

  Dallas FBI and

  Dallas police and

  exempted from retirement

  FBI failure to alert Secret Service and

  fingerprint evidence and

  Ford and

  Griffin on

  Hosty and

  initial FBI report and

  Jack Anderson and

  JFK and

  LBJ and

  letter on LHO threat to kill JFK

  LHO “double” and

  lone assassin theory and

  Manchester and

  Mann’s concerns about Cuban tie and

  Marina Oswald and

  memo of 1960 on LHO

  Nosenko and

  Odio and

  Olney and

  Pearson and

  Rankin and

  RFK and

  Warren and

  WC confronts, with FBI omissions

  WC relationship with

  WC report and

  WC security breaches and

  WC testimony of

  Horne, Lena

  Hosty, Dick

  Hosty, James

  Hotel del Comercio

  Hotel Vermont

  House Select Committee on Assassinations, see U.S. House of Representatives

  Houston Post

  Howard, Lawrence

  Hubbard, John

  Hubert, Leon

  Hudkins, Alonzo “Lonnie”

  Hughes, Sarah

  Humes, James

  Humphrey, Hubert

  Hunt, H. L.

  Idiot, The (Dostoyevsky)

  Impeach Earl Warren movement

  Inquest (Epstein)

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

  Jackson, Robert

  Jacobsen, Jake

  Jarman, James

  Jarnagin, Carroll

  Jenkins, Walter

  Jenner, Albert “Bert”

  JFK (film)

  Johansen, August

  John Birch Society

  John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

  Johnson, Lady Bird

  Johnson, Lyndon Baines

  actions of, post-assassination

  assassination witnessed by

  attacks on, in Dallas

  Baker and

  CIA plot to kill Castro and

  Civil Rights Act and

  Coleman Cuba mission and

  conspiracy theories and

  Cuba-LHO rumors and

  Dallas police and

  elections and

  Ford and

  Fortas and

  Hoover and

  Jacqueline Kennedy and

  JFK funeral and

  LHO Mexico City threat and

  Manchester and

  Mann and

  Pearson and

  resources pledged by

  RFK and

  Rusk and

  Russell and

  Specter’s questions of

  State of the Union address

  sworn in as president

  Vietnam and

  Warren and

  WC budget and

  WC report and

  WC set up by

  Johnson, Tom

  Jornada, La

  Junta Revolucionaria Cubana (JURE)

  Justice Department

  autopsy photos rays and

  Criminal Division

  enemies created by

  Nosenko and

  Office of Legal Counsel

  organized crime and

  Katzenbach, Nicholas

  Keenan, Laurence

  Kellerman, Roy

  Kelley, Clarence

  Kelley, Thomas

  Kempton, Murray

  Kennedy, Caroline

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kennedy, Ethel

  Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier

  Air Force One held for

  arrives in DC

  assassination and

  autopsy and

  de Mohrenschildt and

  JFK funeral and

  JFK legacy and

  JFK’s clothes and

  Lady Bird on

  Manchester and

  marriage problems of

  O’Donnell and

  at Parkland Hospital

  RFK and

  Ruby and

  Rusk and

  Secret Service and

  Specter’s questions for

  testimony of

  WC staff and

  Kennedy, John, Jr.

  Kennedy, John Fitzgerald. See also autopsy; conspiracy theories; single-bullet theory; Warren Commission; and specific agencies; individuals; and locations

  Addison’s disease and

  affairs of

  anti-Castro activists and

  assassination of, not federal crime

  autopsy of

  burial of

  casket on Air Force One

  CIA plots to kill Castro and

  clothes of

  Cuba and

  Dallas new
spaper ads and

  Dallas reconstruction of assassination of

  Dealey Plaza witnesses and

  decision to travel to Dallas

  Dulles dismissed by

  election of

  funeral of

  legacy of

  Lincoln Bedroom and

  Manchester biography of

  marriage problems and

  motorcade route

  O’Donnell’s last conversation with

  landmarks named for

  at Parkland hospital

  presidency of

  Rankin and

  RFK learns of death of

  Rusk and

  Secret Service and

  Slawson calls for renewed investigation of death of

  tracheotomy and

  Warren and

  wound replicated in army tests

  Kennedy, Robert Francis

  assassination of

  autopsy and

  CIA plot to kill Castro and

  conspiracy theories and

  Cuba and

  Dulles and

  failures of

  FBI and

  final statement on report

  grief of

  Hoffa and

  Hoover and

  Jacqueline Kennedy and

  Justice Department and

  LBJ and

  Manchester and

  Mann and

  Pearson and

  Senate race of

  Specter and

  Warren and

  WC and

  WC report and

  WC testimony and

  Kennedy, Robert F., Jr.

  Kennedy, Theodore

  Kennedy Center

  Kennedy family

  control of narrative

  enemies vs.

  Manchester and

  Warren’s loyalty to

  Kesler, John

  KGB

  Khrushchev, Nikita

  Kilduff, Malcolm

  King, Martin Luther

  Kissinger, Henry

  Kostikov, Valeriy Vladimirovich

  Ku Klux Klan

  Lane, Mark

  FBI and

  Marguerite Oswald and

  Markham and

  Phillips novel and

  Redlich and

  Rush to Judgment and

  testimony of

  Langevin, Paul D. (pseudonym of Phillips)

  Laulicht, Murray

  Lechuga, Carlos

  “Leopoldo”

  Lewis, Anthony

  Lewis, Fulton, Jr.

  Liebeler, Eric

  Liebeler, Wesley James “Jim”

  Bugliosi and

  Epstein and

  Odio and

  WC draft report and

  Life

  Life Line

  Lincoln, Abraham

  Lincoln, Evelyn

  lone assassin theory

  initial FBI report and

  leaks to media and

  public response to

  questioned in aftermath

  Redlich vs. Liebeler and

  RFK and

  Russell disputes

  Warren and

  WC internal debate on

  WC report on

  Look

  Lovelady, Billy

  Luce, Clare Boothe

  Luce, Henry

  Mafia (organized crime)

  Maheu, Robert

  Mahoney, Florence

  Malley, James R.

  Mañana, El

  Manchester, William

  Manchester Guardian

  Mann, Thomas

  immunity request by

  Mannlicher-Carcano rifle (assassination weapon)

  photos of

  Mansfield, Mike

  Mao Zedong

  Marcello, Carlos

  Markham, Helen

  Marshall, Burke