Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Comments on JFK and the Unspeakable

“In JFK and the Unspeakable Jim Douglass has distilled all the best available research into a very well-documented and convincing portrait of President Kennedy’s transforming turn to peace, at the cost of his life. Personally, it has made a very big impact on me. After reading it in Dallas, I was moved for the first time to visit Dealey Plaza. I urge all Americans to read this book and come to their own conclusions about why he died and why — after fifty years — it still matters.” — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
http://www.orbisbooks.com/jfk-and-the-unspeakable.html

This statement is itself historic: the first time any member of the Kennedy family has publicly endorsed a book that attributes President Kennedy’s assassination to a conspiracy involving the military-intelligence establishment of the U.S. government. But what sets Douglass’s book apart from the many treatments of Kennedy’s assassination is his methodical case for the reasons behind it: to thwart the President’s extraordinary turn toward peace, especially his back-channel negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev to dismantle the Cold War. So, elements of his own government viewed the President as a dangerous traitor, one to be eliminated.
Only by remembering this story can we take up the challenge that Kennedy left unfinished—the challenge to make peace our legacy for generations yet unborn.
Robert Ellsberg, Orbis Books editor
http://www.orbisbooks.com/a-monthly-letter-from-orbis-books-editor-robert-ellsberg.html