Read Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination Online
Authors: Anthony Summers
Books on Jack Ruby
Belli, Melvin, with Maurice Carroll,
Dallas Justice
. New York: David McKay, 1964.
Denson, R. B.,
Destiny in Dallas
. Dallas: Denco Corporation, 1964.
Gertz, Elmer,
Moment of Madness: The People vs. Jack Ruby
. Chicago: Follett Publishing Co., 1968.
Hunter, Diana, with Alice Anderson,
Jack Ruby’s Girls
. Atlanta: Hallux Inc., 1970.
Kantor, Seth,
Who Was Jack Ruby?
New York: Everest House, 1978.
Kaplan, John, with Jon R. Waltz,
The Trial of Jack Ruby: A Classic Study of Courtroom Strategies
. New York: Macmillan, 1965.
Wills, Gary, and Ovid Demaris,
Jack Ruby: The Man Who Killed the Man Who Killed Kennedy
. New York: New American Library, 1967; New American Library paperback, 1968.
Books on Forensic Science
Houts, Marshall,
Where Death Delights
. New York: Dell, 1967.
Medico-Legal Journal
(Vol. 4, December 1964). Trauma. New York: Matthew Bender & Co., 1964.
Books on Intelligence
Abel, Elie,
The Missiles of October
. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1969.
Agee, Philip,
Inside the Company: CIA Diary
. New York: Bantam, 1976.
Ashman, Charles,
The CIA-Mafia Link
. New York: Manor Books, 1975.
Barron, John,
KGB
. New York:
Reader’s Digest
Press, 1974.
Bowart, Walter, Operation Mind Contro
l
. New York: Delacorte, 1977.
Corn, David,
Blond Ghost
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Dulles, Allen,
The Craft of Intelligence
. New York: Harper & Row, 1963.
Helms, Richard,
A Look Over My Shoulder.
New York: Knopf, 2003.
Hinckle, Warren, and William Turner,
Deadly Secrets: The CIA-Mafia War Against Castro and the Assassination of JFK
. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1992.
Hougan, Jim,
Spooks
. New York: William Morrow, 1978.
Kirkpatrick, Lyman B.,
The Real CIA
. New York: Macmillan, 1968.
Marchetti, Victor, and John Marks,
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974; Dell, 1975.
Morley, Jefferson,
Our Man In Mexico, Winslow Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.
Lawrence, KS: Univ. of Kansas, 2008.
New York Times
,
The Pentagon Papers
. June 13, 14, 15, and July 1, 1971.
Phillips, David,
The Night Watch
. New York: Atheneum, 1977.
Powers, Gary, with Curt Gentry,
Operation Overflight
. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970; London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1970.
Powers, Thomas,
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA
. New York: Pocket Books, 1979.
Prouty, L. Fletcher,
The Secret Team
. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
Rositzke, Harry,
The CIA’s Secret Operations
. New York:
Reader’s Digest
Press, 1977.
Smith, Joseph B.,
Portrait of a Cold Warrior
. New York: Putnam, 1976.
Summers, Anthony,
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover
. New York: Putnam, 1993, and (updated) Pocket, 1994.
Thomas, Evan,
The Very Best Men, Four Who Dared: The Early Years of the CIA
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
Wise, David, and Thomas B. Ross,
The Invisible Government
. New York: Random House, 1964.
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The Espionage Establishment
. New York: Random House, 1967.
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Molehunt
. New York: Random House, 1992.
Books related to Organized Crime
Exner, Judith,
My Story
(as told to Ovid Demaris). New York: Grove, 1977.
Kennedy, Robert F.,
The Enemy Within
. New York: Harper & Row, 1960.
Kidner, John, Crimaldi,
Contract Killer
. Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1976.
McClellan, John,
Crime Without Punishment
. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1962.
Messick, Hank, and Burt Goldblatt,
The Mobs and the Mafia
. New York: Ballantine, 1973.
Moldea, Dan E.,
The Hoffa Wars
. New York and London: Paddington Press, 1978.
Ragano, Frank, and Selwyn Raab,
Mob Lawyer
. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994.
Reid, Ed,
The Grim Reapers
. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1969; New York: Bantam, 1969.
Reid, Ed, and Ovid Demaris,
The Green Felt Jungle
. New York: Trident Press, 1963.
Sheridan, Walter,
The Fall and Rise of Jimmy Hoffa
. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972.
Talese, Gay,
Honor Thy Father
. Cleveland and New York: World Publishing Co., 1971.
Teresa, Vincent, with Thomas C. Renner,
My Life in the Mafia
. London: Hart-Davis, McGibbon, 1973; Panther, 1974.
Other
Attwood, William,
The Reds and the Blacks
. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
Ayers, Bradley Earl,
The War That Never Was
. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1976.
Eisenhower, Dwight,
The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956–1961
. New York: Doubleday, 1965.
Goodwin, Richard N.,
Remembering America—A Voice from the Sixties
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.
Haldeman, H. R., with Joseph Di Mona,
The Ends of Power
. New York: Times Book Co., 1978.
Hunt, E. Howard,
Give Us This Day
. New York: Arlington House, 1973.
Johnson, Haynes,
Bay of Pigs
. New York: Norton, 1964.
Kennedy, John F., (speeches),
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962–1964.
Lasky, Victor,
It Didn’t Start with Watergate
. New York: Dell, 1978.
Latell, Brian,
Castro’s Secrets.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Lawrence, Lincoln (pseudonym).
Were We Controlled?
New Hyde Park, New York: University Books, 1967.
Schlesinger, Arthur,
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965.
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Robert Kennedy and His Times
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978.
Schorr, Daniel,
Clearing the Air
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1977; New York: Berkeley, 1978.
Sorensen, Theodore,
The Kennedy Legacy.
New York: New American Library, 1970.
White, Theodore,
The Making of the President
. New York: Atheneum, 1965.
Official Reports
Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders
, Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations, with Respect to Intelligence Activities, U.S. Senate. Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 (subsequent listings are also published by U.S. Government Printing Office unless otherwise described).
Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board
, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998.
Hearings Before the Sub-Committee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary
, House of Representatives, on FBI Oversight (Serial No. 2, Part III), 1976.
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, and 26 accompanying volumes of Hearings and Exhibits, 1964; published by U.S. Government Printing Office and also Doubleday, McGraw-Hill, Bantam, Popular Library, and Associated Press (New York), 1964.
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, and 12 accompanying volumes of
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.
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. Also published by Manor Books (New York), 1976.
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About the Author
ANTHONY SUMMERS is the author of eight acclaimed books. The most recent,
The Eleventh Day
, on the 9/11 attacks, was a Finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for History and won the Golden Dagger award for the best crime nonfiction of the year. The first edition of this book,
Not in Your Lifetime
, was also awarded the Golden Dagger.
Index
A. J. Hidell alias,
69
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70
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72
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73
,
74
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75
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76
,
77
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87
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119
,
188
,
248
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256
,
257
ACLU.
See
American Civil Liberties Union
Acoustics evidence,
26
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30
,
33
–
35
,
38
,
53
,
55
,
87
Adrenal glands disease,
16
Aircraft photographs, Oswald,
134
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135
Albert Schweitzer College,
135
Alcaraz, Homobono,
325
Alexander, William,
71
,
101
,
108
,
111
,
382
Aliases.
See
also
Oswald; Trafficante
Bishop, Maurice,
301
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302
,
395
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396
,
440
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442
Hidell, A. J.,
69
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70
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72
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73
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74
,
75
,
76
,
77
,
87
,
119
,
188
,
248
,
256
,
257
Knight,
440
Lee, Harvey Oswald,
350
Oswald, Leon,
357
,
361
,
362
–
363
,
370
Pecora, Joe,
216
regular usage of,
149
Alpha
66
,
209
,
296
,
301
,
304
,
440
–
442
Alvarado, Gilberto,
387
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388
,
389
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390
,
391
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
115
,
351
–
352
American Communist Party.
See
Communist Party
American Embassy
in Moscow,
136
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137
,
149
,
165
,
166
,
170
,
172
American Friends of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations,
174
American intelligence.
See
Intelligence community
“The American Fact-Finding Committee” advertisement,
6
American University speech,
295
Anastasia, Albert,
216
“Angelo,”
356
.
See also
“Leopoldo”
Angleton, James,
126
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127
,
134
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147
,
170
,
178
,
197
,
330
,
331
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339
,
341
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342
,
445
Anti-Castro activists.
See also
Castro assassination plots; Ferrie
Alpha
66
,
209
,
296
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301
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304
,
440
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442
Assassinations Committee on,
201
Bringuier and,
250
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252
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253
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254
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257
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259
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260
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261
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263
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272
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275
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292
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305
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353
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393
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438
CRC,
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210
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216
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260
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263
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268
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272
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274
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281
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284
,
355
,
356
Cubela and,
299
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300
,
367
,
368
,
374
,
376
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377
,
391
in Lacombe,
305
pro-Castro leaflets and,
26
,
247
,
248
,
249
,
250
,
251
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253
,
254
,
267
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275
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276
,
278
,
393
Veciana and,
301
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303
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304
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394
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396
,
440
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442
Apalachin,
332
Arlington National Cemetery,
122
,
445
Army Intelligence
destruction of Oswald’s file,
75
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76
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119
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120
,
256
,
257
FPCC and,
256
Oswald’s affiliation with,
76
Army Language School, in Monterey,
141
Artime, Manuel,
391
Aschkenasy, Ernest,
27
Assassination, of JFK.
See also
Assassination theories; Evidence
brain,
8
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9
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15
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16
,
18
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19
,
23
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24
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25
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32
,
36
,
44
,
45
,
46
,
54
Díaz García and,
432
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433
,
434
,
435
,
436
Marcello’s involvement in,
221
,
234
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237
,
242
,
288
,
293
,
422
,
423
–
428
throat wound,
8
,
16
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17
,
25
,
47
,
50
,
52
Trafficante’s involvement in,
229
–
231
,
236
,
422
,
423
Zapruder film,
24
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26
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33
,
41
,
44
,
45
,
47
,
49
,
53
Assassination Records Review Board,
23
,
164
,
315
,
334
Assassinations Committee (House Select Committee on Assassinations)
Alemán and,
231
anti-Castro activists,
201
Army Intelligence file on Oswald,
75
–
76
,
119
–
129
autopsy photographs/x-rays,
17
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18
Blakey and,
29
–
30
,
34
,
231
,
236
,
241
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242
,
245
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304
,
380
,
432
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435
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437
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438
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442
,
444
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445
Brennan and,
95
“Curtain rods” story,
70
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71
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84
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86
,
98
Dictabelt recording,
26
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27
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28
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29
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33
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34
establishment of,
244
Heindel and,
74
Hosty and,
351
“Hunter of fascists ha-ha-ha!!!” inscription,
193
incompetent Bethesda Hospital doctors,
15
Mexico City visit, of Oswald,
327
,
328
Moorman’s photograph,
43
Nosenko and,
161
Oswald-intelligence community relations,
120
Oswald on sixth floor of Book Depository,
97
Oswald’s motive for killing JFK,
112
–
113
Purdy on,
109
Soviet-involvement theory and,
240
Tippit murder,
108
Trafficante and,
263
,
405
–
406
,
421
–
422
Walker assassination attempt,
188
–
192
,
194
–
196
,
197
Assassination theories,
238
–
245
.
See also
Anti-Castro activists; Cuban (Castro) plan; Mafia-involvement theory; Two-gunmen theory
FBI &,
120
intelligence community involvement,
242
–
245
lone gunman theory,
9
,
33
–
34
,
239
Soviet-involvement theory,
163
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164
,
239
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240
Atsugi Air Base, Japan,
73
,
128
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129
,
130
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132
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141
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142
,
143
,
162
Attorney General, RFK as,
217
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218
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219
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224
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234
,
288
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297
,
378
,
427
Attwood, William,
364
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370
,
374
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375
,
377
,
378
,
397
Austin, Horace,
251
Australian women, Oswald and,
315
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316
Auto mechanic,
58
Baden on,
16
Bethesda Naval Hospital,
15
,
20
,
21
,
23
,
24
,
52
Helpern on,
15
RFK and,
16
X-rays,
17
,
20
,
23
–
24
,
45
,
53
–
54
,
55
Autopsy Descriptive Sheet,
16
Avila House,
173
Aynesworth, Hugh,
410
Azcue, Eusebio,
318
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319
,
321
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322
,
323
,
324
,
326
Backward motion of JFK,
8
,
25
,
44
,
45
Bagshaw, Thomas,
142
Baker, Mrs. Donald,
43
Baker, Robert “Barney,”
224
,
407
,
413
Ball, Joseph,
105
Ballistics evidence
headshot to JFK,
46
importance of,
13
Mannlicher-Carcano rifle,
49
memories of gunfire,
32
Tippit murder,
106
Walker shooting,
191
Zapruder film and,
45