Synopses & Reviews
On the fortieth anniversary of the JFK assassination: the fascinating story of the man hired to kill Oswald, revised and expanded with a decade's worth of new declassified information Carroll & Graf has been in the forefront of producing books about the Kennedy assassination. ...It has come up with a winner, ...this mammoth study of one of the most mysterious figures on the fringes of the assassination: Richard Case Nagell, described as the man 'hired to kill Oswald and prevent the assassination of JFK.' With painstaking care, Russell sets out to reconstruct the strange life of Nagell, a former member of a super-secret army intelligence, the sole survivor of two air crashes, a contract agent for both the CIA and the KGB at different times....[Nagell] was ultimately prodded by the Russians to head Oswald away from his role in the Dallas plot...[or, failing that, ] to kill him....Unsure who was calling the shots, [Nagell] lost his nerve, warned the CIA and FBI of the impending disaster, then had himself arrested.... He spent years in jail, while lawyers wrangled over his sanity. [In 1995, three years after the original publication of this book and the day after he was subpoenaed by the Assassination Records Review Board, Nagell died under suspect circumstances in his Los Angeles home.]
Synopsis
A mammoth study of one of the most mysterious figures on the fringes of the Kennedy assassination: Richard Case Nagell, described as the man "hired to kill Oswald and prevent the assassination of JFK" This amazing story has been revised and expanded with a decade's worth of new classified information since the book's original publication in 1993. Freelance investigative journalist Dick Russell delves deep into Richard Case Nagell's strange past, revealing that Nagell had been a contact for both the CIA and KGB at different times. The author's detailed and expert reconstruction of historic events will have readers wondering and questioning about new possible leads never before imagined in this still-unsolved murder.
Synopsis
Carroll and Graf has been in the forefront of producing books about the Kennedy assassination. It has come up with a winner in this mammoth study of one of the most mysterious figures on the fringes of the assassination: Richard Case Nagell, described as the man 'hired to kill Oswald and prevent the assassination of JFK.' On the fourtieth anniversary of the JFK assassination, this amazing story has been revised and expanded with a decade's worth of new classified information. Nagell's own death in 1995 was suspicious. Here, freelance investigative journalist Dick Russell delves deep into Nagell's strange past, revealing that Nagell had been a contact for both the CIA and KGB at different times. The author's detailed and expert reconstruction of historic events will have readers wonder and question new possible leads never before imagined in this still unsolved murder.
Synopsis
2nd Carroll & Graf trade paperback ed., rev. and updated
Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-570) and index.