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The Demon in Jim Garrison
Did the popular belief that the CIA was involved in the Kennedy assassination grow from a seed planted by the Soviet KGB?
On March 1, 1967, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison arrested a prominent local businessman named Clay Shaw and charged him with masterminding the crime of the century: the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. It was a bizarre and groundless accusation by a supremely ambitious prosecutor, but Shaw was not its only victim. This terrible miscarriage of justice was to have immense, if largely unappreciated, consequences for the political culture of the United States.
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A View of Rome from the Provinces
The Barbaric Americans
Stranger in the Arab-Muslim World
Denial is at the heart of the relationship between the Arab and Muslim worlds and America.