Table of Contents -- Chapter 1. John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Introduction to the Dream -- Oswald -- Lucien Sarti -- Carlos Marcello -- The CIA Mongoose Team -- Charles Harrelson -- The Elusive Particle -- Numinosity and Archetype -- The Kennedy Wit -- A New Idealism -- Kennedy and Lincoln -- Table 1.1 Kennedy-Lincoln Correspondence -- Chapter 2. Case Closed -- Evidence Against Oswald -- Physical Evidence -- Circumstantial Evidence -- Dr. Pepper or Coca-Cola: The Obsession Begins -- Chapter 3. Reasonable Doubt -- Evidence Favoring Oswald -- Eyewitnesses Favoring Oswald -- Best Evidence for a Conspiracy -- (1) A Fourth Shot -- Exit Wound in the Back of the Head -- Table 3.1 Autopsy evidence was impugned by the following witnesses present at Kennedy's admission to Parkland Hospital in Dallas -- Ballistics Inconsistencies -- Ballistics/Autopsy Inconsistencies -- Acoustic Evidence of a Fourth Shot -- Further Evidence of a Fourth Shot: The Zapruder Film -- Revisionism -- (2) Deaths of Witnesses -- Table 3.2 Deaths associated with the Kennedy Assassination -- Deaths are coded M [murder], S [suicide] A [accidental] or N [natural] -- Mary Pinchot Meyer -- Rose Cheramie -- Jerry Wald -- Dorothy Kilgallen -- David Ferrie and E. del Valle -- State Department Officer -- Other Deaths -- Statistical Analysis -- Unusual Accidents -- (3.) Death of Witnesses Prior to Government Hearings -- George deMohrenschildt -- Carlos Prio -- Charles Nicoletti -- Sam Giancana -- Leo Moceri -- Regis Kennedy -- William Sullivan -- William Pawley and John Paisley -- John Martino -- Table 3.3 Suspicious Deaths of HSCA and Senate Intelligence Committee Witnesses -- (4.) The Cover Up -- Table 3. 4 Significant individuals named in the literature as -- withholding information or engaged in disinformation about -- the assassination -- How to Look at this Data.

The Hard Evidence of a Cover-Up -- Summary -- Physical Evidence Favoring Oswald -- A Fourth Shot -- Pattern of Suspicious Deaths -- Deaths Associated with Congressional Witnesses -- Cover-up Actions as a Predictor of Conspiracy -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Conspiracy -- 1. The Johnson Theory -- Essential Ideas -- Strongest Points -- Weakest Points -- 2. The Mob Theory -- Essential Points -- Hoover Wiretaps -- Table 4.1. Individuals mentioned in conspiracy texts with respect to a Mafia aspect of the assassinationy -- Marcello -- Who Killed the President? -- Ruby's Toll Calls in 1963 -- Weaker Points -- 3. The CIA Thory -- Essential Points -- The Odio Incident and Loran Hall -- Mexico City -- The Vietnam Connection -- Who Killed Kennedy? -- Clues From Oswald Himself -- Oswald's Dyslexia -- Library Books -- Oswald and Ferrie -- "Better For You Not to Know!" -- Strong Points in the CIA Conspiracy Model -- Table 4.4 Eight "Soft" Lines of Evidence Connecting Oswald to the CIA and Military Intelligence -- Table 4.5 CIA efforts to dissociate itself from Oswald: -- Weak Elements -- 4. The Communist Conspiracy -- Oswald's Soviet Diary -- Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova: Suspicions Increase -- Table 4.6 Deceptions and/or Inaccuracies of Marina Oswald -- The Yuri Nosenko Affair -- Soviet Motives -- Inconsistencies in Soviet Behavior -- Postscript Another Soviet/Cuban Twist: James Hosty's Account -- 5. The Cuban Communist Conspiracy -- Strong Points -- Weak Points -- White Hand And Black Hand: The CIA and the Mob -- Table 4.7 The CIA-Mafia Link -- Summary -- Table 4.8 Summary of names in published conspiracy theories -- Appendix -- Postscript: John Newman's Oswald and the CIA -- Chapter 5. Paradox -- Interpreting The Facts -- The Cover Up -- Dealey Plaza -- Fig. 5.2 Possible Assassins In Dealey Plaza, November 22, 1963.

Jim Braden aka Eugene Hale Brading: A Leading Suspect? -- H.L. Hunt -- Richard Nixon -- Clint Murchison -- Yet-To-Be-Developed Conspiracy Scenarios -- Suzy Chang and Maria Novotny -- Mary Pinchot Meyer and the CIA -- Modern-Day Conspiracy: James E. Files -- Three Interviews with Inmate N-14006 -- Eugene Hale Brading -- Richard Cain -- Nofio Pecora -- Dutz Murret -- Joseph Campisi -- Strong Points of the Files Version -- Weaker Points -- The Brothers Karamazov -- Chapter 6. Shadows and Secrets -- Camelot vs. Conspiracy Schools -- J. Edgar Hoover's Homosexuality and Paranoia -- Kennedy Silence And Secrets -- Shadows of the Father -- Sex: The Sins of the Father Pass to the Son -- Secrecy between the Brothers? -- Table 6.1 Summary of mob connections with the Kennedys -- June 1963 -- Robert Kennedy's Personality -- Revelations from a Colleague -- Even More Recent Revelations -- Even Deeper Secrets: The Shadow of John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- The Adventures of J.J. -- Table 6.3 Kennedy's Mistresses during his Presidency, and the Information Sources -- More Sexually Dysfunctional Players: Marilyn Monroe -- Table 6.4 Marilyn Monroe's Alleged Lovers -- The Monroe Cover Up -- Table 6.5 Individuals Alleged in the Literature to have Covered Up or Withheld Information Concerning Marilyn Monroe's Death -- Events Leading To Her Death -- A Curious Clue -- Jackie Kennedy: Widow, Bone-Crusher, Enigma -- Images of Jackie -- The "Kennedy Curse" -- Lee Harvey Oswald: Patsy, Spy, Counterspy -- Oedipal Elements and Jealousy -- An Unconscious Hatred of Kennedy? -- Oswald the Mystery -- Oswald, on the Right -- Oswald, the Psycho -- Oswald, the Mafia Patsy -- Oswald, Not Guilty -- 'To Kill That Sonofabitch Kennedy!' -- Mental Status of the Main Characters -- Table 6.6. Mental Health Status of Major Conspiracy School Characters.

Table 6.7 Mental Health Status of More Minor Conspiracy School Characters -- Conclusion -- Appendix: -- Confusion of Theory and Fact -- The First Bullet -- Chapter 7. Camelot and Carousels -- Collective Denial -- Symbolic Discernment -- The Carousel -- Dream Interpretation -- Symbols In The Myth -- Camelot -- Passion versus the Dream -- Abraham Lincoln -- The Collective Scapegoat -- The Kennedy Tragedy as the Foreshadow of American Tragedy -- The Significance Of The Number Three -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A Chronology of Oswald's life -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Photo Credits.