My new book, "Into the Nightmare"

[Joseph McBride]

Hello, friends and fellow researchers at Deep Politics Forum:

I am happy to report that my book INTO THE NIGHTMARE: MY SEARCH
FOR THE KILLERS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY AND OFFICER J. D. TIPPIT, thirty-one years in the works, is now out
via Amazon.com. I would be happy to take questions on it.

I think researchers will find much fresh information here. I sometimes find people lamenting
that it's hard to find new material in the case, since so many people involved in it
are now gone, but with the long gestation of this book, I was
able to obtain revealing interviews with such people as Henry
Wade, Senator Ralph Yarborough, Austin Cook, Johnnie Maxie
Witherspoon, and Edgar Lee Tippit, the officer's
father. He had never been interviewed before and provided some
of the most important insights. I did a great deal of archival
research in Washington and elsewhere and benefited from the work of many other researchers in
the field who helped me understand these deeply complex events.
In the course of the book, I have exonerated some suspects in both killings (including Oswald) and pointed to others
while providing a theoretical overview, drawn from both existing and new evidence,
critically examined, that may help make more sense of the many contradictions in the case. The
book delves into what Peter Dale Scott calls the "deep politics" of the assassination
and examines in detail the Texas rightwing milieu in which the murders occurred, drawing
some surprising connections and pointing to key suspects in the planning, some seldom discussed.

I long ago realized that the underexplored Tippit killing is central to the
case and that studying it would provide many new insights, as indeed it did in my research.
I followed the advice Penn Jones gave me and other researchers, "Pick
one aspect of the case, one that hasn't been studied enough, and research the hell out of it."




Here is the information on the book:

Publication date: June 15, 2013
675 pages; Publisher: Hightower Press (available from Amazon.com (enter in Books: "joseph mcbride nightmare")
"AMERICA'S NEED TO WALK INTO THE NIGHTMARE . . .".
. . was how Norman Mailer predicted the tumultuous period that led to President John F. Kennedy's 1963 murder on a public street and the fifty years of controversy that have followed that turning point in our nation's history. Journalist and historian Joseph McBride, a volunteer in JFK's 1960 Wisconsin presidential primary campaign, began studying the assassination minutes after it happened. In 1982, McBride launched his own investigation. Both epic and intimately personal, Into the Nightmare: My Search for the Killers of President John F. Kennedy and Officer J. D. Tippit incorporates rare interviews with key people in Dallas, archival discoveries, and what novelist Thomas Flanagan, in The New York Review of Books, called McBride's "wide knowledge of American social history." McBride chronicles his evolving skepticism about the official story and shines a fresh, often surprising spotlight on Kennedy's murder and on one of the murkiest, most crucial aspects of the case, its "Rosetta Stone," the Tippit killing.

Joseph McBride has been a journalist since 1960, writing for such publications as Life, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and, on this subject, The Nation. An internationally renowned film biographer and historian, he has written acclaimed biographies of John Ford, Frank Capra, and Steven Spielberg. McBride lives in Berkeley, California, and is a professor at San Francisco State University.