James H. Johnston is a lawyer, writer, and historian in Washington DC. He is the coauthor of The Recollections of Margaret Cabell Brown Loughborough: A Southern Woman’s Memories of Richmond, VA, and Washington, DC, in the Civil War and the author of From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family.
Introduction
1. Castro, Oswald, and Kennedy
2. The Bay of Pigs
3. Mongoose
4. Missile Crisis
5. The Brigade
6. Fidel and Hidell
7. Oswald in New Orleans
8. Assassins and Spies
9. AMLASH
10. Mexico City
11. Hubris
12. Carpe Diem
13. The Plot Accelerates
14. The Last Weekend
15. A Barrier Once Removed
16. John Kennedy and the Rogue Elephant
17. Washington, Paris, and Dallas
18. November 22, 1963, in Dallas
19. November 22, 1963, in Other Cities
20. The Days After
21. An Investigation Hobbled from the Start
22. The Investigation Sputters On
23. Regime Change
24. The Warren Report
25. The Never-Ending Investigations
26. John Kennedy and the CIA
27. Lyndon Johnson and the CIA
Appendix A. Where It Might Have Led
Appendix B. Richard Helms's Testimony on the Assassination Investigation
Appendix C. Sources and Secret Files
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
