James W Douglas: Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assasinations of Jfk, Malcolm, Martin, and Rfk, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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After 14 years, here is the long-awaited sequel to the bestselling JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. That book, unlike most books that posit a conspiracy in JFK's assassination, focused less on "who dunnit" as on "why they dunnit." His answer was to trace the steps by which JFK, during his presidency, moved from a traditional Cold Warrior to a prophetic commitment to peace, willing to risk his own life in order to avoid nuclear war. His response to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Test-Ban Treaty, his partnership in pursuit of peace with his ostensible adversary, Nikita Khrushchev, and other steps, caused him to be regarded as a dangerous traitor by elements of the military-industrial-intelligence complex. They deployed the mechanisms of the National Security State--which had previously targeted foreign "threats"--to remove the President of the United States.

Douglass always conceived of this second volume as a continuation of this story. It necessarily returns to the story of JFK, but now shows how the same story was reenacted in the deaths of his brother Bobby Kennedy, as well as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In each case, figures who made a prophetic commitment to peace and social transformation were regarded as enemies who had to be eliminated. Douglass believes that this hidden history holds a key to recovering and advancing their mission, and setting our country and the world on a path to peace.