JFK and the Unspeakable

Why He Died and Why It Matters

By: James W. Douglass

Narrated by: Pete Larkin

Length: 22 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy's change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that Kennedy's interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up.

Douglass takes listeners into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the president's motorcade. As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way, these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda.

©2008 James W. Douglass (P)2011 Tantor

Critic reviews

"The best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance.... But don’t take my word for it. Read this extraordinary book and reach your own conclusions." (Oliver Stone)

The unspeakable continues

The travesty of the fourth and most insidious branch of government ; the CIA continues unabated - its most poisonous act of was murder of Our President - since then with the exception of two we’ve had a series of sock-puppets as presidents. Today it’s in in its most extremen and insidious form - two sock puppets who answer only to the amalgamation of this fourth branch - remember what Schumer said a few months ago about the CIA - “you take on the intelligence community , they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you “ - this book was and is a Porta end of things that came and will continue to come ! Great Book !

Plausible explanations

This tied up a lot of loose ends. The relationship between Khrushchev and Kennedy was informative. A good read for a historical understanding of the Cold War for anyone who didn’t grow up in that era. The author was quite meticulous in his explanations without being overly boring. Well worth the time.

Informative

Very informative, almost too much information. Well written and read. Very professional with lots of fact checking. Thank you!

Superb!

Every United States voter needs to read this book it’s time to take our country back from the oligarchs an evil doers!!!

JFK what a great man

Love this book. I would recommend this book to Dawn Maciel. She would love this book.

Everything You Feared And Then Some

The book is very long, but very detailed about what went on during JFK’s presidency and everything behind the scenes. A great listen that I highly recommend.

Incredible

Thorough, shocking, and disturbing account of the Kennedy Presidency and his assassination by the U.S. intelligence community.

Everyone should read this book

This book was so well written, fact after fact, quote after quote. The author would occasionally ask a question for the reader to ponder, rarely inputting his own opinions, instead based on the incredible volume of evidence presented in this book reach a conclusion. But I think there’s something as if not more important than the evidence of who killed JFK…. And that is what it truly takes to bring peace to this world, it could be done in a matter of a century mostly, a lot sooner if JFK had been allowed to live. It takes courageous leadership, it takes a leader with a vision of the future and doesn’t cave in to the pressure of their advisors and the security state. Which brings me to the next important point of this book, what he (and anyone who would take up where he left off would be as well) was up against. The lengths to which the CIA, Joint Chiefs of Staff, his advisors and top military brass went to pressure, trap, and force him into conflict after conflict, to preemptively nuke Russia which would have resulsted in 100’s of millions dead on both sides and possibly ended civilization as we know it. It shows how courageous of man JFK was and how isolated he was from his own government…. how hard he fought and how close he came to realizing that dream. I have been on the verge, no I had completely given up on humanity after a number of things happened to keep me down on top of just observing the state of the world. This book gave me hope again, just knowing how close we came, and just imagining what life would be like now if he could have served another term, and more people took after him…. What a damn shame it didn’t work out that way, but we have something to fight for, and people to expose. Anyways read the book it’s great!

Eye Opener of Corruption

Wow lots of information to take in here, just one of many layers and layers of corruption in the u it’s States government/system. So sad and evil. I definitely recommend this audio book. Definitely worth listening to at least once

One Book EVERY AMERICAN Needs to Read

If you could sum up JFK and the Unspeakable in three words, what would they be?

See "Additional Comments" Come on- - - three words to summarize a book this powerful, this revealing and this important. You must be kidding.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The author for his courage and dedication to impeccable research and maintaining as much impartiality as is possible for a book of this kind.

Which character – as performed by Pete Larkin – was your favorite?

Can't say.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

When it became clear that both Khruschev AND JFK were determined to avert the nuclear wars that both of their generals and admirals were trying so hard to initiate.

Any additional comments?

This book is the absolute best book I have ever read on the subject of the reasons-for and the results-of the JFK assassination. Douglass brings to light truths about JFK's devotion to co-creating a peaceful world with Premier Khruschev and the fact that JFK had faced his own death for so long and in so many ways that he was more prepared to fight the valiant battle plan than any President before or after. Douglass brilliantly brings out the humanity of both Kennedy and Khruschev and the nightmarish battles they had to fight with their own subordinates, who wanted to start preemptive wars between our two nations. The documentation of other assassination scenarios in the U.S. which were overlooked or completely obfuscated and the way that evidence was discarded made this book stand high above most I have read. My personal collection on the JFK murder is over 175 books, plus articles, and correspondence with the principal authors and authority figures surrounding the assassination, investigation and its research. If every student was required to read this book as a prerequisite to graduating from high school, our nation would be transformed into a far more peace-oriented and life-sustaining tribe of people. James W. Douglass deserves highest honors for this work.