Fitzgerald Books

The thing you need to remember when reading this book- and believe me, you will read it, is that Johnson had trouble dealing with Kennedy becoming president only 6 years after playing a good little Democrat boy in the Senate. Johnson forced Kennedy to play ball and later Kennedy forced Johnson to play ball with him. The book is riviting.

Oswald's Closest Friend: The George De Mohrenschildt Story

In the last couple of years under the JFK Assassination Records Review Board Act our government has spent millions of dollars into the research of the assassination of our 35th President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. As a former Federal employee, on several occasions I have offered all of my research under the Whistleblowing Act to the Clinton administration without receiving replies. President Clinton's former Chief of Staff, Leon Panetta, in the past (1992), had supported this author's research as a former Congressman for the County of Santa Cruz. This author believes that it was certainly unethical and boardering upon fraud when President George Bush signed into law The JFK Assassination Records Review Board Act and did not disclose that he knew George de Mohrenschildt since 1942. In order to understand the conflict of interest George Bush played in the JFK assassination investigation in 1963 and in 1976, one needs to look at his entire career with the CIA and Zapata Oil industry.

TRACKING THE JFK ASSASSINATION

Santa Monica College Corsair - November 17,1997, by Donna Lynn

As the 34th anniversary of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's assassination approaches, Bruce Campbell Adamson, a self-taught genealogist, historian, author and Santa Monica College graduate says that he is close to solving "the crime of the century." When his father died in 1980, Adamson applied for a job at the Santa Monica Post Office. He says he "wanted to work outdoors" because it seemed to be a "healthy" job with few problems. "It took me five years to get hired," he says "And I retired in five years." Adamson ended up filing a federal lawsuit against the Post Office in a worker's compensation claim. He was the case in 1991 and has used the money to research the JFK assassination. "I started researching it (JFK) because I was tired of the subject, said Adamson. When I began my research Oliver Stone's movie, JFK, had just been released and I was sick and tired of all of the theories generated by the tabloid news agencies." This motivated him to write and publish The JFK Assassination Timeline Chart, and eight volumes (now ten) of Oswald's Closest Friend; The George de Mohrenschildt Story. Each bit of information led to another, and Adamson soon discovered that some of his own family members were coincidentally associated with persons connected to George de Mohrenschildt in one way or another. In the past 14 years, Adamson's research has taken him through the government and the Central Intelligence Agency...In a trail that leads from oil fields to Wall Street to the sales of helicopters used in the Vietnam War, Adamson claims that he exposes evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. Everything that we are today exists today because of the past, he said "If historians don't get the story right, then our lives today are based upon lies." He also link's "alleged lone assassin" Oswald to de Mohrenschildt, an aristocrat who had ties to the rich and famous. Adamson asserts that these elites may have benefited financially from JFK's death. The wealthy "were also retaliating for their political as well as other motives," said Adamson. "Wealthy individuals having prior knowledge of the plans to kill JFK could sell short on the New York Stock Exchange and buy their company back for half the price after the assassination," Adamson aid. On the day of the assassination, the stock market lost 11 billion in paper." Adamson's main theory focuses on a U.S. oil depletion allowance, which grants oilmen a 27.5 percent tax break when reinvesting in their other corporation. Adamson says that Texas oilmen plotted the assassination of JFK to gain more power, and that the Warren Commission found Oswald guilty without a fair trial. He places de Mohrenschildt with a group of friends -- one of whose grandfather's chartered the oil depletion allowance in the 1920s."... De Mohrenschildt died on March 29, 1977, of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Adamson, however, says de Mohrenschildt could have been murdered, since the CIA was on his back about his knowledge of the assassination. Adamson asserts that de Mohrenschildt, prior to his death, told a close friend that a number of oilmen, FBI and CIA agents were behind the JFK assassination. "De Mohrenschildt had complained to his friend, CIA Director George Bush in September of 1976 about being harassed," Adamson wrote. "Shortly thereafter, Bush contacted the FBI Director and it was not long after that de Mohrenschildt would find himself in Parkland Hospital receiving nine shock treatments." Were the shock treatments CIA-sponsored, Adamson asks? While Bush was CIA Director, more than 200 Top Secret documents came up missing, including the letters between de Mohrenschildt and Bush, says Adamson. Like Oswald, de Mohrenschildt went to his grave insisting that Oswald was "just a patsy," and that Oswald was not the assassin, according to Adamson. "That's a dying declaration," Adamson insists. "When someone makes a statement on their deathbed, they're likely telling the truth." Is finding the truth about JFK's murder Bruce Campbell Adamson's destiny? Is Adamson possessed by the genetics of his own distinguished American heritage, driving him to correct an error made in history? Is he driven by Hustler magazine's bounty of $1 million to whoever determines the murderer? "Circumstantial evidence does not lie," says Adamson. "And people should not be afraid to focus and speak of these associations in our society, which allows free speech, nor should they fear retaliation for alienating the rich and famous." "Adamson's fascinating bloodline hasn't gone to his head. He maintains that he's just "a simple guy. I'm nothing special," he says, but "here I am trying to solve the 'crime of the century,'" for which "there is no statute of limitations on murder."

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Reviewed by Gina Holland for RebeccasReads (6/08)

"JFK, LBJ, and the Democratic Party," written by Sean J. Savage, is a fabulous book for people everywhere who want to learn more about what happened in the days of Kennedy and Johnson.

The 1958 election was an affair of rivals and allies. As a country, we were looking for greater support on different issues such as economics, agriculture, education and heath care. This book includes some very extraordinary photos of Kennedy and Johnson, and there are also photos of Robert Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey and many more. I love the photo section and Mr. Savage did the book great justice by including the photos he found during his research.

I think it's very important for the children of today to learn about the elections of the past. Some of the issues discussed can teach students how we have come a long way to our current Presidency, in politics and the White House. The Kennedys were very popular people and even though John F. Kennedy was killed, his legacy lives on and on in the minds of the people of the United States.

Readers of this book will discover details on the elections of the 1960s, and how they relate to the world today. I really appreciate the details in this book and how much I actually learned from it. It is very hard to put into words the gist of this book, so I highly recommend it.

My second grade son and I have enjoyed reading this and the other Stories of Famous Americans. We are studying early American History and I really enjoy offering him readers with historical content. He enjoyed this story so much, he has decided to pursue a law degree and become a politician himself(for this week!). I love books that encourage him to reach for the stars.

My son had to do a presentation on JFK. I have tons of books on him, but none of them could give him a quick overview of his life in "kid language." I found this book for him, which he read in about 30-45 minutes, and it gave him everything he needed to put together a dynamite presentation!

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located in Boston, Massachusetts. It's a ten-acre facility that is dedicated to the memory of the thirty-fifth U.S. President.

Many interesting exhibits and audio/visual materials relating to President Kennedy's 1,037 days in office can also be accessed at the JFK Library's website, located at www.jfklibrary.org.

That website is a fascinating place to browse through. There are historical resources available there, along with Kennedy biographies and profiles, a "virtual tour" of the physical Library/Museum in Boston, and lots of other interesting things to discover about the Kennedys and JFK's Presidency.

One of my favorite areas of the JFK Library website is called "The White House Diary", which is packed with detailed information regarding each and every one of John Kennedy's 1,000-plus days in the Oval Office. The "Diary" allows you to select any date during JFK's all-too-brief Presidential term (from the day of his inauguration on January 20, 1961, through the terrible day of his tragic assassination on November 22, 1963). Various pieces of information (e.g., JFK's appointments, meetings, bill signings, news conferences, White House ceremonies, etc.) for a particular chosen date will be printed on that "page" of the Diary.

Each Diary entry includes a related photo if one is available, plus (on some dates/pages) an audio or video clip is played that is associated with a speech or public statement that was made by President Kennedy on the selected date (including several audio snippets from some of JFK's 64 live press conferences).

A ton of info on the history of JFK's White House years can be obtained in that Diary. Fabulous stuff. I'm grateful to those people who put together such a comprehensive day-by-day record of John F. Kennedy's Presidency.

The website allows visitors to access the "White House Diary" in two ways -- with the best (and preferred) method being via "Macromedia Flash Player", which enables you to hear the audio clips and also displays the Diary in a realistic-looking "book-like" manner, complete with "turning pages".

Lacking the "Flash Player", you can still view the Diary's text by way of an HTML version that is also available.

If you happened to have been born during one of JFK's 1,037 days as President, it's easy to find out what Mr. Kennedy and family were doing on your date of birth via that nifty and handy "White House Diary" feature at the Library's site.

I, myself, was born during JFK's administration, and I've been able to quickly determine that President Kennedy had a physical exam on my date of birth. He was declared in "excellent general health, except for his back, although it is stronger than it was this past summer". That examination, btw, took place in Palm Beach, Florida, which is where the President, First Lady Jackie Kennedy, and other family members were celebrating the holidays during JFK's first Christmas season as President in December 1961.

Below I've included a link to the "White House Diary" via the JFK Library's Internet site. (Note: This link only accesses the HTML version of the Diary; in order to see the more-complete "Flash Player" version after you arrive at the following webpage, click on the link marked "White House Diary", located in the red toolbar/menu, just to the right of the "Site Map" link.)......

www.jfklibrary.org/white%20house%20diary/

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John Kennedy's tenure as President of the United States was short-lived. But in his less than one term in office, he revitalized America's interest in politics in a number of different ways. And despite the crises that the nation endured during those three JFK years in the early 1960s, things somehow seemed "better" because Jack Kennedy roamed the White House.*

* = I, of course, cannot speak from personal experience when it comes to my "better" remark, because, as I admitted just a moment ago, I was only a toddler in a crib during most of Mr. Kennedy's Presidential term. But I've heard people describe the "Camelot" years as being like no other, before or since. Well, perhaps that's just the "Kennedy myth" coming to the surface, above and beyond the real "substance" of Mr. Kennedy's accomplishments. I don't really know. That could be at least partially true, I suppose. But one thing's a certainty -- America was diminished a good bit after JFK was taken from the world on November 22nd, 1963.

But, thanks to the beautiful Library and Museum facility in Boston which bears Mr. Kennedy's name, and thanks to the associated JFK Library website that anyone with a computer can access....the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy will forever be instantly recallable.

This book has an interesting touch. Actually I wrote a whole biograghy book report on it. I have read a lot of books on John F. Kennedy. But I have to say this was the best one. I asked a lot of people about this book and they all recomended it to me. And that's how I read this book.

Most biographies are very boring to young readers in this highly visual world. The picture book size ones like Celia Cruz or Muhammed Ali are very popular. The children took to this biography immediately. Every page has well chosen photgraphs and the text is clearly written and covers all important information.The book is 6" by 9" which is a good size for bookbags. It also includes key dates at back. I have bought three in the series and the teachers asked for more.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Life In Pictures is an impressive photographic gallery and the collaborative effort of Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac in celebration of JFK. Very little text is present; almost all of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Life in Pictures is dedicated to allowing the black-and-white and color photographs speak for themselves, with only a brief introduction leading into the compilation and a quick byline for each image to clarify the photograph's setting and the people it depicts. A visual treasury, moving to page through and recommended for any truly interested in seeing President Kennedy's life revealed, from early years to his untimely death.

This is a great version of the Johnny Appleseed story - most appropriate for 1st and 2nd grade teachers. The illustrations are vibrant and interesting, and the story shows Johnny through the course of his life; it also does a good job at explaining a tall tale. This book paired with the one by Steven Kellogg would be a great teaching set.