Almost 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, his murder continues to haunt the American psyche and stands as a turning point in our nation’s history. The Warren Commission rushed out its report in 1964, but questions continue to linger: Was there a conspiracy? Was there a coup at the highest levels of government?

On March 1, 1967, New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison shocked the world by arresting local businessman Clay Shaw for conspiracy to murder the president. His alleged co-conspirator, David Ferrie, had been found dead a few days before. Garrison charged that elements of the United States government, in particular the CIA, were behind the crime. From the beginning, his probe was virulently attacked in the media and violently denounced from Washington. His office was infiltrated and sabotaged, and witnesses disappeared and died strangely. Eventually, Shaw was acquitted after the briefest of jury deliberation and the only prosecution ever brought for the murder of President Kennedy was over.

Returning to audiences for the first time in years, On the Trail of the Assassins - the primary source material for Oliver Stone’s hit film JFK - is Garrison’s own account of his investigations into the background of Lee Harvey Oswald and the assassination of President Kennedy, and his prosecution of Clay Shaw in the trial that followed.

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Listening Length	11 hours and 52 minutes
Author	Jim Garrison
Narrator	Mark Kincaid
Audible.com.au Release Date	17 May 2013
Publisher	Audible Studios
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00NW31NS0
Best Sellers Rank	50,779 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 587 in United States History (Audible Books & Originals) 616 in 20th Century U.S. History 78,747 in Textbooks & Study Guides

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Emil Teofanov

The Truth in this book will piss you off.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2017

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«The Truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.»

I strongly suggest, before start reading this book, you look up on the Internet the following:
"The Marilyn Monroe CIA Memo". It is an intelligence summary report of wiretaps on the Marilyn's phones, dated 3 August, 1962 — two days before her assassination — and is basically the death sentence of poor Marilyn Monroe.

Why? Because this fact is the only truth, which is missing from the wonderful book, written by Jim Garrison. Apart from it, everything is included in the Garrison's exposé:
▶ The negative Nitrate test of Oswald;
▶ The missing brain of Kennedy - half of it vaporised by special mercury-tipped bullet;
▶ The Admiral without medical background, who stopped the autopsy;
▶ Etc. Etc. Etc.

If you ever wondered why the Military-Industrial Complex is in power since November, 1963, and no democratic elections can change this - this book will give you a big piece of the answer.

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G P Roper

A gripping and well written narrative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 August 2019

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Superb narrative of Jim Garrison’s case against Clay Shaw, the only legal case that has ever been brought against an alleged conspirator in the JFK assassination.
Clearly JG was barking up the right tree, based on the amount of resistance and active non-cooperation received from government agencies in the course of his investigations.

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Steven Dyer

A Classic

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 January 2018

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First read this back in 1992 when JFK first came out, but unfortunately lost my original copy. Glad to see it is still in print as it is a brilliant book. Just a shame there were not a few more brave men like Jim Garrison, then we might know who exactly shot JFK.

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A. Stephens

As it was

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2020

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Great book, this account in my opinion is how the assassination of president Kennedy occurred.
Thank you Jim garrison for your integrity, honesty and perseverance to getting to the truth

Sean Keenaghan

Very good read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 September 2018

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Excellent read, thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Would recommend it as a serious study of the Kennedy assassination . Well done

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