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History of the Kennedy Assassination
The Assassination of America, is not an “assassination book,” it is a massive and comprehensive history of the period preceding, surrounding, and following the murder of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy by Paris Flammonde, more, is it not a “book” but, rather, a set of three books: The Deaths in Dallas, The Masques of New Orleans, and Barren Harvest--the fourth, the indices consisting of the Dramatis Personae, the Subject Index, and the Graphics Index, to be issued before the end of the year. Additionally, the work of over fifteen hundred pages includes more than four hundred frames of photographs and illustrations and thirty appendices the first two of which are more
than sixty portraits of the most noted “critics” and about thirty biographies of them.
While the author’s initial interest in the subject began more than four decades ago when, as he worked on an earlier book in his Greenwich Village studio he heard the announcement of the Texas tragedy come over the radio of a taxi parked just outside his open casement window, it was much intensified when he was asked to do a book on the event. This commitment led to visits to New Orleans, doing some investigative work for the legendary District Attorney Jim Garrison, interviewing persons involved in the inquiry and dining at Antoines and Brennan’s with the six foot six Big Easy personality.
The author’s particular contribution to the Garrison inquiries, the only official investigation of the murder ever conducted, was mainly in the areas of the involvement of certain related individuals to the Old Catholic Church, and similar or parallel institutions, possible elements in Canada, and the international espionage operation of the Cenrtro Mondiale Commerciale and Permindex in Switzerland, Italy, and elsewhere. These efforts were conducted as he was writing The Kennedy Conspiracy, the first serious book on Jim Garrison, which was brought out by Meredith Press in 1969.
After a continuing interest in the subject of a decade or so, Flammonde turned to other fields, While continuing to keep abreast of the developments of the case and the activities of the numerous critics from the initial group, including Mark Lane, Sylvia Meagher, Josiah Thompson, Edward J. Epstein, Harold Weisberg, Bernard J. Fensterwald, Jr., William Turner, Joachim Joesten, Richard Sprague, Eric Norden, and a dozen others, he maintain contact with the second, third, fourth, and fifth generation of persons devoted to a study of the countless aspects of the assassination.
Then, in 2003, a friend suggested that he up-date the work as so much had been revealed over the many years since The Kennedy Conspiracy appeared, even within the framework of Jim Garrison’s investigation and the trial of his accused, Clay Shaw, (Flammonde’s publisher had insisted that, for commercial reasons, he complete the book in time for it to issued before that legal facet came to a conclusion.) The author agreed to elaborate it to the extent of adding a new sixty or seventy pages, and eliminating the more obvious anachronisms.
However, the project, like Topsy, “jes’ growed,” and over the ensuing years was abandoned as an “assassination book,” and became a history of the event, the period, the countless private investigations and interminable theories and evaluations thereof, depictions of all the cast of many hundreds of individuals, and a review of all of the elements surrounding the slaying and everything pertinent to it, etc., etc. of fifteen hundred pages in three volumes.
The Assassination of America by Paris Flammonde in three volumes (The Deaths in Dallas, The Masques of New Orleans, and Barren Harvest) of 1500 pp, 400 + graphic frames, and thirty appendices, with Forward by Cyril H. Wecht, M.D., J.D., Introduction by William Turner, and Preface by Jim Marrs, is being offered at a pre-publication “critics” run - - - See Offer
Mr. Flammonde is very familiar with broadcast interviews as he was the producer-panelist of The Long John Nebel talk show out of New York several decades ago and has appeared on mike for more than 1500 hours, as well as having made multiple appearances on To Tell the Truth, Alan Burke, Ed & Pegeen Fitzgerald, Barry Farber, and other programs around the country. He has given a number of public lectures with and without visuals.
