Live By the Sword by Gus Russo

Live By the Sword by Gus Russo

Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate.Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert Kennedy was personally supervising groups plotting against the Cuban leader. Filled with rage and a sense of destiny, Oswald went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico, announcing he would kill America's president in exchange for sanctuary in Havana. Live By the Sword forces the conclusion that members of the Cuban regime accepted the troubled American's offer. Russo shows that Oswald was indeed JFK's lone assailant, but that after the president's murder, a devastated Robert Kennedy and key officials launched a comprehensive coverup to hide its true causes.Gus Russo, based in Baltimore, Maryland, has reported for acclaimed ABC and PBS documentaries on JFK, and done research for authors Gerald Posner, Seymour Hersh, and Anthony Summers. Exhaustively researched, Live by the Sword ends 35 years of public mistrust and confusion over the Kennedy assassination.

Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Crime Partners Became America's Secret Power Brokers and The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Creation of Modern America are among Gus Russo's nine works. He has contributed to the Baltimore Sun, Nation, Washington Post, Book Forum, Variety, and Huffington Post, among other publications.

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ISBN 13	9781890862015
ISBN 10	1890862010
Title	Live By the Sword
Author	Gus Russo
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bancroft Press
Year published	1998-11-01
Number of pages	512
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