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Farewell America: The Plot to Kill JFK Paperback – November 22, 2002

by James Hepburn (Author), William Turner (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
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Originally published in 1968 in France under the title L'Amerique Brule (America Is Burning), Farewell America quickly became a best-seller in Europe in eleven languages. It was the inside story of the assassination of President John Kennedy. Although borrowing heavily from published critics of the Warren Commission Report, the book describes the roots of the Cold War, the linkage between large corporate and banking interests, the ever-growing American intelligence apparatus, and the international petroleum cartels that were lined up with a bevy of military brass and Mafia chieftains against JFK.

A combination of these powerful interests called "The Committee" coordinated all aspects of the murder, from setting the time and place of the shooting to the recruitment of the gunmen and the coverup of the conspiracy afterward. The bottom line was that enemies of JFK collaborated with the CIA to erase the perceived threat to their interests by John and Robert Kennedy.

Heady stuff for 1968. So incendiary, in fact, that importation of the book through Canada was squelched, allegedly at the instigation of the FBI. Farewell America wasn't just another book about the assassination conspiracy; it bristled with restricted information about U.S. intelligence agencies, the White House, global business, and military and political affairs that had to have come from a knowlegdeable source, in this case, French intelligence. It also represented the surreptitious intrusion by those in French government circles into American politics, namely, the 1968 presidential elections.

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  1. Print length
    394 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Penmarin Books
  4. Publication date
    November 22, 2002
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 1 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1883955327
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1883955328
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Originally published in Europe in 1968, this is a once-notorious, now-dated look at John Kennedy's assassination and an excoriation of the American scene in its aftermath. Turner (Rearview Mirror, etc.) explains in his introduction that the book was first published under mysterious circumstances and was "aimed at advancing the 1968 presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy," but its U.S. distribution was rapidly curtailed after RFK's death. The authors ("James Hepburn" is a pseudonym) conducted clandestine research among KGB and Interpol agents and French petroleum espionage specialists and relied on a rare, unmodified print of the famed Zapruder film. The book seethes with aggrieved passion in defending the Kennedys and their ideals, and seeks to defrock the "lone gunman" theory of JFK's assassination. Most of the text is a damning jeremiad, portraying pre-1964 America as a vicious, discriminatory oligarchy controlled by alliances of Big Steel and Big Oil, the military and organized crime, which all had reason to fear JFK's proposed reforms. According to "Hepburn," these interests combined with ultra-right-wing paramilitary groups like the Minutemen and Cuban exile groups to plan the assassination. Chapters discussing the assassination itself will be grimly convincing to some readers, with excellent analyses of the Secret Service's failures and the ambiguous roles played by the CIA and FBI during this tumultuous era. This is a pungent historical document, but its conspiracy theory is familiar by now, and its information has been surpassed by more recent studies such as Murder in Dealey Plaza, edited by James Fetzer.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Penmarin Books deserves high praise for allowing Farewell America to reach a new and expanded audience. --Ed Tatro, JFK assassination expert

Penmarin Books deserves high praise for allowing Farewell America to reach a new and expanded audience. --Ed Tatro, JFK assassination expert

Penmarin Books deserves high praise for allowing Farewell America to reach a new and expanded audience. --Ed Tatro, JFK assassination expert

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penmarin Books; First Edition (November 22, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 394 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1883955327
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1883955328
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 50 ratings

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Sterling R. Braswell
5.0 out of 5 stars great account of state of union during kennedy times
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2003
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I first read Farewell America in 1996, when I was loaned a copy of the book from a business colleague. I was unable to purchase a copy of the book at that time, i was told it was not for sale. This was true at the time.
The book as i read it 7 years ago was intriquing, and the fact i was unable to find the book or buy the book legally lead me to believe more in conspiracy about the JFK assassination, and to read as many books as possible about JFK and the state of the nation during and after that time.
The fact that this book was researched and written so close to the time that the assassination and 'coverup' happened is the most compelling reason for reading Farewell America. After reading it again now that it is available, I still rank this book as the best source of information on this subject. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to step back with an open mind and look at the facts that were known in the first five years after Kennedy's death. There are excellent books which follow in later years, but the closer to the source, the less the distortion.
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S.L. Kirby
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read.
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2023
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Lots of good info that you wont hear anywhere else.
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Jay
5.0 out of 5 stars INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES sharing information
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017
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While this book lacks documentation for what it reveals, it's overall command of the subject matter is amazing. This book was the combined effort of a number of agencies in the intelligence world. With all the books that have detailed the legal aspects of the JFK case, such as Mark Lane's classic defense of Lee Oswald in "Rush to Judgment", through the incomparable work of Robert Groden in his "JFK: Absolute Proof" and Jim Marrs' "Crossfire," to the story of what D.A. Jim Garrison uncovered in "On the Trail of the Assassins" and Lane's "Last Word" the story is out there. The plot has been uncovered. This book is of interest to all who study the topic. If you want to see the facts on film, look at John Barbour's documentary, "The American Media and the Second Assassination of President Kennedy" and his first film, "The Garrison Tapes."
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Paula Jane
4.0 out of 5 stars Just read the last third.
Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2023
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Quite a slog through the 1960-1963 weeds whether relevant or not until the last half or so of the book. The last part of the book has a reasonable summary of the likely events. A bit of a letdown after reading some good reviews.
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David Winnett
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book. A must-read for anyone interested in the JFK assassination
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2022
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Further research into the killing of our President.

Without any doubt whatsoever, it was a government sponsored coup de’etat.
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Camilo Yaryura
5.0 out of 5 stars This book answer who and why was killed JFK
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2013
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This book answer who and why was killed JFK. After translated to 11 languages in Europe for his success, the first books for the US, was burned by the FBI at Canada-

Eisenhower's farewell address (sometimes referred to as "Eisenhower's farewell address to the nation"[1]) was the final public speech of Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States, delivered in a television broadcast on January 17, 1961. Although the speech is best known for its warning about the growing military–industrial complex.

From every bomb that makes explosion in Bagdad the "military–industrial complex" makes money.

The USA is no more a democratic country ruled by the rules of democracy, it is ruled by the interest of the "military–industrial complex" that Obama is the mayor representative with his external policy of eternal confrontations and backing Israel interests to make war and to taking over lands that belongs to the palestinian people, accordingly to the UN resolution of the Partion of Palestine in 1946.
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Monon22
5.0 out of 5 stars JFK Assassination
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2024
Discusses the different groups and their reasons for developing a hatred for the president. The people liked Kennedy, but the establishment did not, and it was these folks along with zealots from intelligence & the military who were upset over the bay of pigs & with the help of organized crime (because RFK had gone after them intensely hard), all had conspired to kill him. He was a true populist, was anti-war and America centric, which is usually in defiance of the DC war machine, military-industrial complex.
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Ralph
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!!!!
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2020
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Great!!!!
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