Deep Politics and the Death of JFK

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0520205197 ISBN13: 9780520205192 Release Date: June 1996 Publisher: University of California Press Length: 424 Pages Weight: 1.38 lbs. Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 8.9" Peter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective-that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes-Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and domestic policies.Scott offers a disturbing analysis of the events surrounding Kennedy's death, and of the "structural defects" within the American government that allowed such a crime to occur and to go unpunished. In nuanced readings of both previously examined and newly available materials, he finds ample reason to doubt the prevailing interpretations of the assassination. He questions the lone assassin theory and the investigations undertake