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Dealey Plaza is a story about people and events surrounding John Fitzgerald Kennedy's life, his Presidency, his assassination, and the conspiracy theories about his death swirling like vortexes spinning round-and-round-and- round. The book describes the end of Camelot and what it meant to society. This book will blow your mind. It delves into the inner psyche of Lee Harvey Oswald and his tumultuous relationship with his wife Marina. It touches on the lives of those at Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, the motorcade watchers, the motorcade participants, the Secret Service men, the newspaper reporters, the police. The life of Lee Harvey Oswald is analyzed and portrayed as he moves from place to place. The book is as much about understanding Lee Harvey Oswald as it is about JFK and his life. The role of Jim Garrison the New Orleans District Attorney who charged the CIA, Clay Shaw, David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, and others with conspiring to kill JFK is reviewed in great detail. The CIA's and JFK's plans to kill Fidel Castro are noted along with how the Mafia, Jimmy Hoffa, Fidel Castro and others wanted JFK dead. The book is dedicated to Emory Roberts, who was my neighbor in Wheaton, Maryland and was in charge of the Secret Service Detail that fateful day at Dealey Plaza and was in the back-up car when JFK was shot. Marina Oswald is seen in all her radiant glory and what she went through after her husband was killed. What the CIA knew and did is an integral part of the story. JFK's hi-jinks with innumerable women spanning more than twenty-five years is revealed. Jack Ruby, owner of the Carousel Night Club, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald, his activities and actions are portrayed. David Ferrie was in the Civil Air Patrol with Lee Harvey Oswald in the mid-50’s in Louisiana and his role in crazy goings on is discussed like his involvement in a plot to make a poison to kill Fidel Castro. There are people knowledgeable about conspiracies surrounding JFK's assassination who fear to come forward because of what might happen to them. Many who had knowledge about conspiracies involving JFK died before they talked about it - some of them murdered. I can understand how people witnessing an earth shattering event can keep it secret for years-and-years. In the early evening on Friday, January 15, 1982, an acquaintance was an eyewitness to a sensational murder. A wealthy real estate developer and landlord, after visiting his children, was battered by four young men with baseball bats and stabbed seventeen times outside his four- car- garage thirty-five yards from his home and stuffed into the back seat of his pinkish-purple customized Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz. A short time later, he saw the developer, a huge man, in his death throes in the back seat of his car looming up like a huge apparition, eerie lighting cascading down from nearby pole lights, the ground covered with six inches of snow, the parking lot an icy sheet, the temperature a frigid eighteen degrees. Two of his killers were his nephews, one of them his ex-wife’s lover. Years later they were brought to justice. He did not reveal anything for twenty-nine years except to his wife, and did not tell her for three years. What is huge about this story involves a man who worked for my father in New Orleans who was best friends with Jim Garrison, the District Attorney of New Orleans from 1962-1973. My father knew Jim Garrison from dealings he had with him in law suits and civic functions but did not know him intimately. This book is for anyone who wants to learn about, review or reassess the Kennedy years, his death, and all that transpired surrounding his death since November 22, 1963, and wants to get a new perspective on some of the things that happened.