DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case.
New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1992. 423 pages.
In the rush of publicity after Oliver Stone's film, some excellent
books were reprinted and some questionable old and new ones found a place
next to them on bookstore shelves. Until you've read a dozen books on the
JFK assassination, it's difficult to distinguish between the two. This is
a new work that's very well-produced, and deserves a place with the
classics. It has a point of view on the assassination (the intelligence
connection), so it's worth mentioning that there are good books with a
different point of view, such as "Mafia Kingfish" by John Davis and
"Contract on America" by David Scheim (the Mafia connection). Since the
CIA and Mafia were working together at the time, this is probably a
non-issue. Yes, writers need handles and find it easier to specialize.
So the Mafia-done-it folks should be forewarned -- DiEugenio supports
Jim Garrison and is mainly concerned with arguing the merits of Garrison's
evidence as seen 25 years after the case was prosecuted. This approach is
a necessary palliative in the wake of the "let's go get Stone" stampede.
The debate over the movie has tended to focus narrowly on the question of
JFK and Vietnam; what gets lost are fascinating questions such as who was
this Clay Shaw and what was he up to? Garrison was onto something; judge
for yourself. -- D.Brandt
ISBN 1-879823-00-4
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