Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy

Crossfire by Jim Marrs is essentially the unofficial encyclopedia regarding the Kennedy Assassination and Coup D’etat.In this phenomenal tome Marrs carries out a methodical examination of all the intricacies that revolved around this incident.From breaking through the veil of the official story, to heading into the darker aspects of the conspiracy, Marrs attempts to leave no stone unturned .Marrs takes a gander at everything from nefarious dealings of the CIA, to witness accounts that eviscerate the official narrative, to examinations of the grassy knoll as well as the depository. Of course, there is a LOT more.Finding peculiar – “coincidental” – instances littering the event, Marrs homes in on the issue with the ambulance that was to serve as the reason for President Kennedy’s motorcade having to stop, to countless dead witnesses [and people in the know]- 143! – and even suspect dealings with the secret service and how it acted once the assassination began taking place. Each of this is sifted to leaving the reader aghast at such events.Not only that, but the cover up that ensued, which no doubt involved Lyndon B. Johnson and insiders from the CIA, FBI, Secret Service, and more, is also examined at length into a variety of rabbit trails that will leave the reader furious at the fact that so many people turned their backs on Kennedy, or they were part of the conspiracy in the first place.Issues with the infamous Zapruder film are also given a glance given all circumstances revolving around it.The author also examines how the CIA and its notorious mind control experiments via MK Ultra might dovetail with the assassination.As the author saliently notes:“Since Oswald may have taken a mind-altering drug; since his killer, Jack Ruby, told Dallas police he had no recollection of shooting Oswald; since Sirhan Sirhan, the presumed assassin of Robert Kennedy, still claims he can’t remember what happened in the Ambassador Hotel; and since a San Quentin psychologist, Dr. Eduard Simson, proclaimed that Sirhan has been “programmed” by drugs, hypnosis, or both, the possibility of mind control in the JFK assassination…cannot be ruled out.”[1]Besides homing in on Lyndon B. Johnson, the author also thankfully narrows in on J. Edgar Hoover, whose ability “to gather information and then to control it” give him enormous power. This along with his suspect dealings within the assassination, are more than ample reasons as to why Hoover is likely very complicit in the assassination.Marrs also lays down the fact that many witnesses were in fact intimidated by the authorities into going with the official narrative. Regarding this, the author soberingly notes:“Witnesses Charles Givens, James Tague, Phil Willis, Kennedy aides Kenneth O’Donnel and David Powers, and former senator Ralph Yarborough were pressured to alter their statements, while others – including Ed Hoffman, A.J. Millican, Sandy Speaker, Acquilla Clemons, and Richard Carr – were threatened into silence.”[2]Predictably, the mainstream media – being part of the establishment – didn’t even bother in examining their testimony, nor anything else that might blow the lid on the cover up. Then again, being the official mouthpiece of the establishment, this is par for the course.Of course, the author also homes in on many of the interests that revolved around the assassination from Big Oil, to the Big Banks, the Mob, the Cubans, FBI, CIA, and more.How Jack Ruby’s role plays out around this conspiracy is also given more than a fair glance by Marrs. Interestingly, Jack Ruby dying of cancer dovetails with information from Dr. Mary’s Monkey – How The Unsolved Murder Of A Doctor, A Secret Laboratory In New Oreleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses Are Linked To Lee Harvey Assassination And Emerging Global Epidemics by Edward T. Haslam. Haslem found that cancer was able to be induced via injection, which rings ominous since Ruby dying of an unexpected cancer certainly sent shockwaves given how many researchers have postulated that Ruby was indeed given cancer as a covert method of murder.One of the worst parts of all this is that the cover-up continues until this very day.Regarding this, the author notes feelings related from a JFK assassination research website, JFK Facts:“If JFK was killed by a deranged lone nut, why are so many records from 1963 considered so significant in 2012? Why were records destroyed? Who ordered their destruction? Where are the Air Force One tapes? Why can’t they be found? Why are so many CIA documents about undercover officers with pre-assassination knowledge of Lee Harvey Oswald classified for reasons of national security? Why doesn’t Congress oversee the JFK Records Act? Why don’t they hold public hearings on these issues and get answers to these questions?“[3]Or, as Governor Jesse Ventura intimated:“If the government were telling the truth, there would be no reason to lock up anything from the people of this country. Clearly, they are not, because here we are 50 years later, and they are still withholding documents from us.”[4]Consider this mandatory reading if you care about what’s happening to this country.This book not only proves without a shadow of a doubt that the official story is hogwash, but it also proves that there is overwhelming evidence that Oswald was a fall guy. Not only that, but:“The Dallas police paraffin test showed no gunpowder on Oswald’s hands or cheek, evidence that he did not fire a rifle…”[5]Of course, the ballistic evidence and medical evidence also support a more concerted and conspiracy into more power elements given that only a select few would have the ability to alter data related to the assassination.All things considered, this book is a masterful analysis that not only eviscerates the official narrative, but also sheds light into many of the darker components that played a role into the assassination of President Kennedy. It’s my contention, as well as that of other researchers that many of the elements that played a role in carrying out that assassination are still around today. Given how much our nation has deteriorated since the assassination with every new scandal and with every new crisis, we have not rid ourselves of this deadly shadow.And we must, for how can true change ever take place if the darkness lie embedded within a structure that should stand for good, but unfortunately hasn’t, and has only stood to support the most corrupt within the establishment.For this, and many more reasons, this book is vital in understanding how we got into this current moment history as a society.Kindest Regards,Zy MarquiezTheBreakaway.wordpress.com____________________________________________________________Sources:[1] Jim Marrs, Crossfire – The Plot That Killed Kennedy, pg. 172[2]Ibid., pg. 543.[3]Ibid., pg. 515.[4]Ibid., pg. 515.[5]Ibid., pg. 540.

This is a must read for those desiring to know the truth about JFK in Dallas. Exposes lies and the governmental coverup. Perhaps in our day the truth will finally be made known.

This book is much more than I thought it would be based only on the title. I figured it would mainly talk about the mechanics of how many shots were fired during the assassination, where the shooters were located, etc..But this is really a comprehensive study of the JFK assassination. The technical details are covered but it also gets into the bigger picture of the political climate that existed in 1963 and who may have been involved and responsible for planning and executing the assassination and the ensuing cover up.There are fascinating insights in the book which are the result of many years of research and study about the assassination by author Jim Marrs. Mr. Marrs and others have looked at the assassination from many different angles and figured out what probably happened and why.For example people say it was just a lucky coincidence that Jack Ruby entered the basement of the jail at the exact time Lee Oswald was being transferred. But the researchers say it wasn't a coincidence at all. The police delayed bringing Oswald out until Ruby was in position. This of course heavily implicates the Dallas Police Department in the conspiracy as Jim Garrison believed.I would say generally speaking that's a good rule to follow for people who are studying about the JFK assassination. There are no coincidences in this case.There's not a lot of pictures in the book but the few pictures which are included are very important. The famous Zapruder film was altered almost immediately after the assassination. The version of this film that was released to the public has the back of JFK's head blacked out to hide the massive damage to the back of his skull. The pictures of Lee Oswald standing in his back yard holding the alleged assassination rifle are also fakes. Using today's modern photographic techniques the alterations that were done to these critical pieces of evidence can now clearly be seen and nobody can really disagree with those findings.As Jim Marrs points out altering the Zapruder film may have had some short term benefits for the conspirators to deceive the world but in the long run this may end up helping the cause to find the truth. There's only one group of people who had the power to make those types of alterations to critical evidence.As I read more about the JFK assassination a very dark and sinister picture begins to emerge. This is a story of greed, betrayal, deceit, and murder. At this point I don't think there's much of a question that the government was behind all this. The CIA. The FBI. The Secret Service. The Military. Wall Street and the Federal Reserve. The Texas oil barons. They were all involved it seems.The question for us today is what does it all mean and how is it still affecting us. Jim Marrs feels they assassinated JFK as a warning to any and all who might like to follow in his footsteps.In my opinion this would be a great book to read for someone who is just starting out doing research about the JFK assassination. If someone reads this book and then reads some of the other books Jim Marrs refers to they would obtain a great understanding of the assassination.But this book is recommended for anyone regardless of their level of familiarity with the assassination. The JFK assassination is a subject that has attracted many high quality authors and Jim Marrs is definitely one of those.On the Trail of the Assassins: One Man's Quest to Solve the Murder of President Kennedy[Paperback October 16, 2012]by Jim Garrison (Author)JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy[Paperback April 1, 2011]by L. Fletcher Prouty (Author), Oliver Stone (Introduction), Jesse Ventura (Foreword)The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ[Paperback September 2, 2014]by Roger Stone (Author), Mike Colapietro (Contributor)Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey ... Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics[Paperback April 1, 2007]by Edward T. Haslam (Author), Jim Marrs (Foreword)Me & Lee: How I Came to Know, Love and Lose Lee Harvey Oswald[Paperback October 22, 2011]by Judyth Vary Baker (Author), Jim Marrs (Afterword),Edward T. Haslam (Foreword)Trauma Room One: The JFK Medical Coverup Exposed[Paperback November 22, 2001]by Charles A. Crenshaw (Author), J. Gary Shaw (Author), Oliver Stone (Author)Hit List: An In-Depth Investigation into the Mysterious Deaths of Witnesses to the JFK Assassination[Hardcover April 15, 2013]by Richard Belzer (Author), David Wayne (Author)JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters[Paperback October 19, 2010]by James W. Douglass (Author)

Along with Sir Martin Gilbert's book THE HOLOCAUSTThis is the other greatest book I have ever read. It goes through all aspects of the JFK assassination in minutiaeIt's scope of investigation is breathtaking and I am 50 pages from ending and not looking forward to finishing thisIt has had me grasped

Jim Marrs' "Crossfire" is the most complete examination of the Kennedy assassination that I have ever read, while also standing as an utterly engrossing read about the most notorious "whodunnit" of the twentieth century.Such is the strength of the case demonstrated by the author in favour of a conspiracy to kill JFK (and its subsequent cover-up) that even the most ardent "lone gunman" advocate must concede that at the very least, some very serious questions still need answered about what really went down in Dallas on that November day some fifty years ago now.Opponents of Marrs and his fellow researchers who argue for a conspiracy are often labelled with the slightly derisory term "conspiracy nuts", but as the author demonstrates, if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck...This book is an absolutely excellent place for anyone new to the subject to begin their research. Likewise, this newly revised and updated edition contains intriguing new ideas and opinions for those of a more longstanding interest to chew over. Worth every penny of the purchase price.

There are many books to read on the assassination of JFK with different perspectives. Jim Marrs focussed on the facts to help you form your own opinions whilst being humble. I have studied this since school and still hope for a time when the truth prevails over the writers of history who want to look the other way whilst ignoring the facts.This book is recommended and should be read with certain others to form your own opinions if the truth is what is seeked.

I found the *original* Crossfire, published in 1989, a revelation.Sadly Mr Marrs apparently has chosen money over quality, when authorising this new edition. It contains nothing new that is remarkable, which is remarkable in itself, since there has been a virtual tidal wave of evidence made available since his book was first published (post Oliver Stone's JFK and the subsequent JFK Records Act).There is virtually no trace in the new edition of the eminently credible new evidence available placing LBJ at the very centre of the conspiracy to kill Kennedy; there is also no trace of the now plentiful evidence now available that the Zapruder film is a fabrication to hide Secret Service complicity in the murder, nor much that reflect the current understanding that Oswald probably didn't even fire a gun on the 22 November.This is a quick repackaging with little new on the inside.

Haven’t fully read yet. But so far Jim Marrs’ text seem well researched, comprehensive and easy to read. The book is also structured very well, so it is easy to find your way around the text. Would recommend.I hope you find my review helpful.