Sixty Versions of the Kennedy Assassination: A Primer on Conspiracy Theories

by Edward Jay Epstein

Edward Jay Epstein’s primer on theories that attempt to explain the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Epstein, one of America’s most acclaimed investigative journalists, was the first– and only journalist– to interview the Warren Commission and its investigative staff. He includes in this book six essays on the theories, intrigues, and mysteries still surrounding the assassination. It includes the classic article he wrote for Esquire cataloguing the strengths and weaknesses of 60 conspiracy theories, the last interview he had with George de Mohrenshildt on the last day of De Mohrenshildt’s life, and his debate with Oliver Stone over the movie JFK. .

Praise for Edward Jay Epstein

“Edward Jay Epstein is one of the great investigative journalists of the era”
—Michael Wolff, USA Today

“Epstein believes that conspiracies are more common than most journalists credit; for much of his career, he has reveled in the kind of tantalizing clues that could lead somewhere, or nowhere.” —Joe Nocera, The New York Times

“Epstein is a bulldog researcher.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“A brilliant investigator.” — Lou Dobbs

“Exciting research, impressive thesis.”
—Norman Mailer

120 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 23, 2013

About the author

Edward Jay Epstein (born 1935) was an American investigative journalist and a former political science professor at Harvard, UCLA, and MIT. While a graduate student at Cornell University in 1966, he published the book Inquest, an influential critique of the Warren Commission probe into the John F. Kennedy assassination. Epstein wrote two other books about the Kennedy assassination, eventually collected in The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend (1992). His books Legend (1978) and Deception (1989) drew on interviews with retired CIA Counterintelligence Chief James Jesus Angleton, and his 1982 book The Rise and Fall of Diamonds was an expose of the diamond industry and its economic impact in southern Africa.