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Who can hear the words “grassy knoll” or
“Texas School Book Depository” without a shudder of horror?
Who can forget that one minute the handsome, smiling president
was waving to the crowds, and the next minute his wife was
bravely trying to hold his shattered head together? The story
of what happened on that day is very poignant for Antoinette
Giancana. Her father, Sam Giancana, ordered the assassination
of President Kennedy.
JFK and Sam is a tale of two murders.
The first occurred in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The second
occurred in Oak Park, Illinois, on the evening of June 19,
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—John Kennedy and Sam Giancana—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 on November 22, 1963, and
discusses the team leader’s life, his taped confession, and
his face-to-face meeting with Antoinette in the Joliet state
prison where he is serving a life sentence for killing a policeman.
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.
Coauthors John Hughes and Thomas H. Jobe—experts
in neurophysiology, neurology, and neuropsychiatry—also
provide expert analysis that show what could not have
happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, as well as what did
happen. Because of the nature of President Kennedy’s injuries
and his reaction to the bullets, Hughes and Jobe provide a
medical basis that supports the story told by the assassin
of the president of the United States.
ANTOINETTE GIANCANA is the daughter
of Mafia chief Sam Giancana, who controlled Chicago in the
late 1950s and 1960s. She is the author of Mafia Princess,
which was made into a movie with the same title featuring
Tony Curtis and Susan Lucci.
JOHN HUGHES is the director of clinical
neurophysiology and professor of neurology at the University
of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. He is the author of
six books and more than five hundred scientific articles about
the brain and its functions.
THOMAS H. JOBE is professor of psychiatry
and associate director of neuropsychiatry at the University
of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. He is coauthor of Lyndon
Baines Johnson: The Tragic Self, A Psycho-Historical Portrayal.
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