Contents

Author’s Note

Preface

1. “WHICH ONE ARE YOU?”

Oswald’s Formative Years

2. “THE BEST RELIGION IS COMMUNISM”

Oswald in the Marines

3. THE WAR OF THE DEFECTORS

Yuriy Nosenko and Oswald’s Defection

4. “THE LESSER OF TWO EVILS”

Marina and Lee in Russia

5. “I’LL NEVER GO BACK TO THAT HELL”

Dallas, 1962

6. “HUNTER OF FASCISTS” The Assassination

Attempt on General Walker

7. “HANDS OFF CUBA”

New Orleans, Summer 1963, Part I

8. “OUR PAPA IS OUT OF HIS MIND”

New Orleans, Summer 1963, Part II

9. “HIS MOOD WAS BAD” Mexico City

10. “WHEN WILL ALL OUR FOOLISHNESS COME

 TO AN END?” Dallas, October–November 1963

11. “I’LL NEVER FORGET IT FOR AS LONG AS

  I LIVE” Dealey Plaza

12. “HE LOOKS LIKE A MANIAC” Oswald’s Escape

13. “HE HAD A DEATH LOOK”

 Parkland and Bethesda

14. “MY GOD, THEY ARE GOING TO KILL US ALL”

 The Single Bullet

15. “I’M A CHARACTER! I’M COLORFUL”

 Jack Ruby

16. “I AM JACK RUBY. YOU ALL KNOW ME”

 The Murder of Oswald

17. “A RELIGIOUS EVENT” The Warren

 Commission and the Conspiracy Buffs

18. “BLACK IS WHITE, AND WHITE IS BLACK”

 The Jim Garrison Fiasco

19. “WHAT HAPPENED TO THE TRUTH?”

 The House Select Committee and Latest Developments

    AFTERWORD

    IMAGE GALLERY

      APPENDIX A. THE BALLISTICS OF ASSASSINATION

      APPENDIX B. THE NON-MYSTERIOUS “MYSTERY DEATHS”

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    NOTES

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    INDEX