Forthcoming in September: “A Farewell To Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assassination and The Case That Should Have Changed History”

Significantly revised and updated, the groundbreaking examination of one district attorney’s quest for the truth.

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Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s murder.

Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing Kennedy. A Farewell to Justice reveals that Oswald, no Marxist, was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with US Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison’s investigation reached the highest levels of the US government. Garrison’s suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, interviewed here for the first time by the author.

Building upon Garrison’s effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies’ roles in both a president’s assassination and its cover-up. In this revised edition, to be published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the president’s assassination, the author reveals new sources and recently uncovered documents confirming in greater detail just how involved the CIA was in the events of November 22, 1963. More than one hundred new pages add critical evidence and information into one of the most significant events in human history. 84 b/w photographsWorking with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy’s murder.

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Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing Kennedy. A Farewell to Justice reveals that Oswald, no Marxist, was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with US Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison’s investigation reached the highest levels of the US government. Garrison’s suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, interviewed here for the first time by the author.

Building upon Garrison’s effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies’ roles in both a president’s assassination and its cover-up. In this revised edition, to be published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the president’s assassination, the author reveals new sources and recently uncovered documents confirming in greater detail just how involved the CIA was in the events of November 22, 1963. More than one hundred new pages add critical evidence and information into one of the most significant events in human history. 84 b/w photographs

Publication Date: September 3, 2013

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Joan Mellen Interviewed on Black Op Radio

Show #601

Original airdate: October 25th, 2012
Guests: Joan Mellen / Debra Conway
Topics: JFK Assassination Research

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  • Our Man In Haiti, Joan’s writing about Jim Garrison led to an interest in the CIA
  • CIA relationships in Texas, George de Mohrenschildt handled Oswald in Dallas
  • A CIA document which states that Clay Shaw was a contract employee of CIA
  • April, 1963, de Mohrenschildt was assigned to Clemard Joseph Charles in Haiti
  • In 1804, Haiti overthrew slavery, 200 years of U.S. explotation and intervention
  • Charles worked for Haitian ruler “Papa Doc” Duvalier, while trying to overthrow him
  • CIA was worried about de Mohrenschildt talking about what he knew
  • Hunt Oil security chief, Paul Rothermel, implicated the Hunts in the JFK assassination
  • The Zapruder film was not viewed by Hunt on the day of the assassination
  • de Mohrenschildt’s suspicious death was ruled a suicide
  • de Mohrenschildt was a man for sale, he worked for French intelligence in WWII
  • CIA man Jim Moore in Dallas, why was this sophisticated man cultivating Oswald?
  • He also handled Herbert Itkin, involved in plots to overthrow Duvalier
  • Papa Doc was the “not-Castro” in the Caribbean, hospitable to American capitalism
  • Relations to Haiti are a model for U.S. relations with other countries
  • Joan plans three books on the CIA and Texas; Haiti, Cuba, and Mac Wallace
  • de Mohrenschildt was a thoroughly awful man, some good people in the book
  • Joan found no direct involvement of de Mohrenschildt in the assassination
  • He never got paid by the government of Haiti, he came back broke
  • He was dangerous, he knew that CIA knew about Oswald in 1962
  • The CIA betrays people that contract with them, a dangerous business
  • A letter to CIA Director George Bush, Bush involved in CIA fronts in Haiti
  • de Mohrenschildt was attractive to women, he was not suicidal
  • Trineday publisher, joanmellen.net, next book, The Great Game in Cuba
  • Mohamed Al-Fayed, Haiti, Lady Diana’s death
  • Next year, a reprint of A Farewell to Justice (2005), with a 134 page update