JFK Assassination References Worth Reading

*Editor's Special Recommendation
*Baker, Judyth Vary. Me and Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Loses Lee Harvey Oswald, (Walterville, Oregon: Trine Day LLC, 2010).

Baker, Russ. Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces that put it in the White House, and what their Influence Means for America, (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2009).

Bernstein, Carl. “The CIA and the Media.” Rolling Stone, October 20, 1977.


Crenshaw, Charles A. et.al. Trauma Room One: The JFK Medical Coverup Exposed, (New York: Paraview Press, 2001).


Di Eugenio, James and Lisa Pease, Editors. The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X, (Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003.

*Douglas, James W. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters,(Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2008).

*Fetzer, James H., Editor. Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK, (Chicago: Catfeet Press, 1998).

*Fetzer, James H., Editor. Murder in Dealey Plaza: What We Know Now that We Didn’t Know Then about the Death of JFK, (Chicago: Catfeet Press, 2000).

*Fetzer, James H., Editor. The Great Zapruder Film Hoax: Deceit and Deception in the Death of JFK, (Chicago: Catfeet Press, 2003).


Fonzi, Gaeton. The Last Investigation (Ipswich, Mass.: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 1993).


Haslam, Edward T. Dr. Mary’s Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics, (Walterville, Oregon: Trine Day LLC, 2007).


Hersh, Burton. The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, (New York: Scribner’s, 1992).

*Horne, Douglas P. Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK, Volumes I-V, (self-published, 2009).

Hurt, Henry. Reasonable Doubt (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1985).

*Lane, Mark. Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK? (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1991).

*Lane, Mark. Rush to Judgment (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press; 2nd edition, 1992).

*Lifton, David. Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. 1980).


Livingstone, Harrison E. High Treason 2 (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc., 1992).


Livingstone, Harrison E. Killing Kennedy: And the Hoax of the Century, (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc., 1995).


Livingstone, Harrison E. Killing the Truth: Deceit and Deception in the JFK Case, (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc., 1994).


Mangold, Tom. Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA’ Master Spy Hunter, (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1992).


Marrs, Jim. The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Socieies that Threaten to Take over America, (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008).

*Meagher, Sylvia. Accessories After the Fact (New York: Random House, 1975).


Melanson, Philip H. Spy Saga: Lee Harvey Oswald and U.S. Intelligence, (New York: Praeger, 1990).

Nelson, Phillip F. LBJ The Mastermind of JFK's Assassination, 2010.

*Newman, John. Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth about the Unknown Relationship between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK, (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1995).

*Prouty, L. Fletcher. JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, (New York: Carroll Publishing Group, 1996 and again by Skyhorse Publishing Inc. in 2009).

*Prouty, L. Fletcher. The Secret Team: The CIA and its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, (New York: Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2008, originally published in 1973).



Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much (New York: Carroll and Graf, 1992).

Russell, Dick. On the Trail of the Assassins: A Ground Breaking Look at America's Most Infamous Conspiracy, (New York: A Herman Graf Book, Skyhorse Publishing, 2008).


Scott, Peter Dale. Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).


Scott, Peter Dale. Deep Politics II: The New Revelations in U.S. Government Files 1994-1995, (Ipswich, Mass: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2003).

*Talbot, David. Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, (London: Simon and Schuster UK Ltd, 2007).


Thompson, Josiah. Six Seconds in Dallas: A Micro-study of the Kennedy Assassination Proving that Three Gunmen Murdered the President, (New York: Bernard Geis Associates, 1967).

*Twyman, Bloody Treason: On Solving History's Greatest Murder Mystery : The Assassination of John F. Kennedy (Jefferson City Mo.: Laurel Publishing, 1st edition, 1997).