A Farewell to Justice

Jim Garrison, JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History

By: Joan Mellen

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy's murder.

Garrison began by exposing the contradictions in the Warren Report, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was an unstable pro-Castro Marxist who acted alone in killing Kennedy. A Farewell to Justice reveals that Oswald, no Marxist, was in fact working with both the FBI and the CIA, as well as with US Customs, and that the attempts to sabotage Garrison's investigation reached the highest levels of the US government. Garrison's suspects included CIA-sponsored soldiers of fortune enlisted in assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, an anti-Castro Cuban asset, and a young runner for the conspirators, interviewed here for the first time by the author.

Building upon Garrison's effort, Mellen uncovers decisive new evidence and clearly establishes the intelligence agencies' roles in both a president's assassination and its cover-up. In this revised edition, to be published in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the president's assassination, the author reveals new sources and recently uncovered documents confirming in greater detail just how involved the CIA was in the events of November 22, 1963. More than one hundred new pages add critical evidence and information into one of the most significant events in human history.

©2013 Joan Mellen (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Originally published by Potomac Books, © 2005 by Joan Mellen. The 2013 Skyhorse edition contains a new update and revisions throughout the original text written by the author.

True history!

Well detailed and researched along with updates! The new reality we’ve been living in since.

Very good

Best review of the work of Jim garrison. The only book that I have found that does

How close Jim Garrison came to the truth

I liked the book very much. It was an amazing story and I liked the information about Jim Garrison.

Powerful

It fills in the pieces the books by Jim and others as well as the movie leave out and it’s at times shocking but overall telling.

A Deep Dive into Jim Garrison

This is just what I was looking for. After watching JFK, reading On the Trail of the Assassins by Jim Garrison and Last Word by Mark Lane, Joan Mellon takes us deeper into the story of Jim Garrison. The research involved in this book rivals Dick Russell and even Jim Garrison himself.