By Mark Shaw
Investigative journalist Mark Shaw keeps that researchers who've studied the homicide of President John F. Kennedy were interpreting the incorrect reasons and clues, and ignoring the genuine gamers. In The Poison Patriarch, he focuses now not on why the president used to be assassinated, yet why his brother, Robert, wasn’t.
His persuasive concept leads on to kin patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy. Mining clean info and greater than 40 new interviews, Shaw weaves a spellbinding narrative concerning Mafia don Carlos Marcello; Lee Harvey Oswald’s killer, Jack Ruby; Ruby’s lawyer, Melvin Belli; and, finally, the Kennedy brothers and their father.
In what Wiseguy writer Nicholas Pileggi calls a "fascinating and specified account of what occurred in Dallas in 1963," Shaw addresses those confounding mysteries: Why was once Belli, an green legal professional selected to shield Jack Ruby? How did Belli’s Mafia ties impact his criminal process, which resulted in Ruby’s conviction and demise sentence? What used to be Joseph Kennedy’s dating to prepared crime? How used to be his insistence that RFK be appointed lawyer common tantamount to signing the president’s dying warrant? And why, after his brother’s loss of life, did RFK inform a colleague, “I idea it'd be me”?
“Shed[ding] mild on one of many darker questions on the assassinations,” (G. Robert Blakey, coauthor of The Plot to Kill the President), The Poison Patriarch is destined to change the debates over the most arguable, surprising, and defining moments of the 20th century.
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