Description: At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy's change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that Kennedy's interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up. Douglass takes listeners into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the President's motorcade. As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda.
Brief description: James W. Douglass is a longtime peace activist and writer whose works include The Nonviolent Coming of God and Resistance and Contemplation. With his wife, Shelley, he is cofounder of Mary's House, a Catholic Worker house of hospitality in Birmingham, Alabama, as well as the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington.
Review Quotes:
"A compelling argument for why the 'unspeakable' (read 'evil')--a complex alliance of right-wing forces including agencies of the US government--wanted Kennedy eliminated."
-- "Library Journal"