Bugliosi on the JFK Assassination

Vincent Bugliosi will read from Reclaiming History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy on Tuesday, May 22, at 6:00 pm at the Brattle Theatre. Tickets are $5 and are available at Harvard Book Store.

Vincent Bugliosi was the prosecutor in the Manson trials, the author of Helter Skelter, and the author of The Betrayal of America, on the mess that was the 2000 presidential election. The LA Times waxes rhapsodic about him: "Vincent Bugliosi is an American master of common sense, a punishing advocate and a curmudgeonly refreshing voice of reason."

Now he's tackling the general public perception that the man believed to be JFK's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, may have been innocent or may have been the patsy in a conspiracy. What's real, and what's true about the story? We just covered a book on how RFK was the very first JFK conspiracy theorist, and the theories keep on developing.

Bugliosi gets down deep in the muck to see what he can find. And it takes him one thousand, six hundred, and thirty-two pages to do it. That's thorough.

It seems that, of all people, Bugliosi would come up with the real dirt that led to the assassination of JFK. But there is none. Bugliosi's research leads to the conclusion that there was no grassy knoll. Oswald killed JFK. Period. It's out there in all the reviews - we're not spoiling anything.

So don't go expecting to hear a grand, sweeping, surprising conclusion about the matter. Go to hear the way that Bugliosi can prove an argument like no one else.

Image of Bugliosi's book from Amazon.