The Road to Dallas

In The Road to Dallas David Kaiser argues that organized crime used Lee Harvey Oswald to kill President John F. Kennedy in revenge for his mob-hostile policies. He utilizes Federal Bureau of Investigation (fbi) records documenting mob activities in New Orleans and Cuba but fails to describe a viable plot. In one example, he asserts that Charles Murret, Oswald's New Orleans uncle was mobconnected and that “it would have been easy” for him to have told a mob boss Oswald was available (p. 205). But “would have” does not belong to the category of fact, it is a speculative phrase of imposed design. Murret, a fine family man, bought and repaired cars for a living. Kaiser omits that Murret drove Oswald to Battles Wharf, Alabama, where Oswald gave a seminar at a Jesuit college, certainly an act incompatible with grooming him as an assassin. A month later Oswald

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