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JFK and Sam: The Connection Between the Giancana and Kennedy Assassinations [Hardcover]

Antoinette Giancana , John R. Hughes , Thomas H. Jobe

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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing,US (31 Jan 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1581824874
  • ISBN-13: 978-1581824872
  • Product Dimensions: 15 x 2.5 x 23 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,141,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"JFK and Sam" is a tale of two murders. The first occurred in Dallas in 1963 and the second in Illinois in 1975. The first was ordered by Sam Giancana to avenge his betrayal by the Kennedys. Giancana had assured JFK's win in Illinois with the understanding that the new administration would go easy on the Chicago mob. Instead, Bobby Kennedy stepped up prosecutions. The second assassination was carried out by the CIA and the mob to prevent Giancana from testifying before the Church Committee hearings regarding his role in the CIA's plot to kill Fidel Castro. The irony is that both men were assassinated because of their relationship to each other and events that transpired from that relationship. "JFK and Sam" is unique from other books on the Kennedy assassination. Written by an insider with access to key figures, it names the assassins and traces the assassination team's movements in 1963. The first shot came from the Dal-Tex building (adjacent to the book depository) and struck Kennedy in the back of the neck.

The second came from Giancana's driver who fired a CIA prototype handgun with a telescope (called a "fireball") from the grassy knoll, using a frangible bullet, which explains why there was such a massive wound to Kennedy's head. Lee Harvey Oswald was the fall guy and did not fire a weapon.


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Amazon.com: 4.2 out of 5 stars  21 reviews
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5.0 out of 5 stars Giancana, but not Giancana alone. 14 April 2006
By W. J. Dankbaar - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This is an outstanding book. It reads nicely and easily and gives a good overview of the case, also for beginners. This should not come as a surprise from me as I conversed a lot with author John Hughes and shared some of my research and materials for this book. Nevertheless a few tiny errors slipped into the last two chapters that deal with confessed grassy knoll shooter James E. Files. Such as that he used a .221 bullet, while in fact it was a .222 bullet. But these small errors are forgivable since they don't take away from the big picture, although the involvement of the CIA and the highest elements of US government could have been emphasized more. But then again, any child can grasp that Organized Crime alone could not have executed this coup d' état, not to mention its cover-up.

Five stars.

Wim Dankbaar

- author "Files on JFK"
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Who knew? 5 Mar 2006
By M. Bracy - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Absolutely astonishing. Being new to the whole Kennedy assignation field of study this book was my first introduction to this intriguing subject. I was so fascinated by the information presented by the book I was even inspired to purchase the DVD of the taped interview with "Deadeye". I would highly recommend this book largely due to the fact it has kindled an interest in me I never thought I would have. I am still amazed at the idea that the man responsible for the shooting of JFK is alive and well in a prison in Joliet, IL. Even more remarkable is the thought that the world doesn't know
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars What really happened at Dallas! 21 Nov 2005
By Don C. Michel - Published on Amazon.com
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The most important fact discussed in this book is JFK's violent lurch to his left after being struck in the right temple by a bullet fired from the area of the grassy knoll (or the picket fence behind it).

It was at least 12 years before the public was permitted to see the complete sequence of the Zapruder film including this reaction to the impact. If this complete version of the film had been available at the time of the assassination, people would simply not have bought the official conclusion that Kennedy's wounds resulted from a shot from behind because it is obvious that the shot had to come from in front.

Apologists for the single-bullet theory have tried to explain-away this movement claiming it was due to some kind of neurological reflex but the author - a professor of neurology who is director of clinical neurophysiology at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago and who has authored seven books and more than 500 scientific articles about the brain and its functions - says this kind of reflex simply does not exist. He cites in addition two other experts in the field (page 193)supporting this claim.

There is much detail revealed on the motives of the mob figures involved, as well as apparent involvement of J. Edgar Hoover and at least some members of the CIA. The participation of Sam Giancanna's daughter, Antoinette in the authorship of the book adds considerable interest and altho there could be a better editing job (some un-necessary repitition is noted), the book makes sense throughout and even reveals the author's opinion that a confessed felon currently in an Illinois penitentiary is the real assassin.

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