What are your top 5 JFK assassination books?

[Thomas Graves]

"Legend" by Edward J. Epstein has got to be right up there for me.

Although he doesn't say (maybe because James Angleton was still alive?), Epstein's sources appear to have been my pro-Golitsyn, anti-Nosenko heroes Angleton, Tennent H. Bagley, Newton "Scotty" Miler, William Hood, and William Sullivan.

Another book that appears to have some "pearls" in it is "The Man Who Knew Too Much" by Richard Russell.

--  MWT 

[Thomas Graves]

So hard to get this down to five but here are mine:

Conspiracy - Anthony Summers
Oswald And The CIA - Newman
Our Man In Mexico City - Jeff Morley
Marina And Lee - By Mrs Oswald
The Death of A President - William Manchester

What are yours and why?

From what I can tell, Vincent Bugliosi's 1000-pager is very thorough and quite accurate, and Dale Myers' "With Malice" on the Tippit murder is quite good, too.

Do big-name video productions count? 

If so, then I can't over-recommend National Geographic's "The Lost Bullet," and PBS Nova's "Cold Case: JFK".

--  MWT 

[Jerry Freeman]

From what I can tell, Vincent Bugliosi's 1000-pager ....

...would come in handy if you run out of toilet paper.

[John Iacoletti]

...would come in handy if you run out of toilet paper.

Not adequate for that task either...

[Bill Chapman]

Not adequate for that task either...

Pretty much not worth shit, huh..  looks like you won't be taking a knee at Bugliosi's gravesite any time soon.

[Richard Rubio]

1) The JFK Myths: A Scientific Investigation of the Kennedy Assassination, by Larry Sturdivan

2) With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit, by Dale Myers

3) Case Closed, by Gerald Posner

4) The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963, by William Manchester

5) Reclaiming History: The Assassination Of President John F Kennedy,by Vincent Bugliosi **

**I haven't actually read Bugliosi's book from beginning to end because it's too damn long.

Great list. Yes, Bugliosi's book is the ultimate authority on the assassination, these other books are worth reading too.

I think Gerald Posner is also an authority on the Nazis, I saw him on some documentary the other day, "Nazis, the ultimate evil", pretty good.

[Thomas Graves]

... [Bugliosi's book] would come in handy if you run out of toilet paper.

I think Mark Twain said something about your ilk in this context.

--  MWT