assassination of President Kennedy, with particular emphasis on the many contradictory aspects of the case and the strong likelihood that the plot involved a number of people,
The literature casting doubt on the official version offered by the Dallas police and the FBI has now reached considerable pro~ portions, The symposium offered here shares in this general reaction. It differs, however, in two important respects, It indicates the more general political setting in which the assassination occurred$ it advances the Marxist attitude of strong opposition to individual terrorism. On the latter point, some pertinent quotations. from Leon Trotsky are cited,
Articles by two contributors to World Outlook are included: “Political Background and Aftermath," an article written by Joseph Hansen immediately after the assassination, and "Impact on the Negro Movement," an article written by Evelyn Sell exposing the record of Kennedy!s successor in the civil-rights struggle and predicting that the struggle for Freedom Now, after a short lapse, would continue as before,
A sampling of the reaction of the world press to the official version of the assassination shows how widespread is-the disbelief that only a "lone: psycopath" was involved. This includes citations from the world!s principal newspapers, including the Indian press, The main lines of Mark Lane's analysis, showing that Lee Oswald may well have been the victim of a frame-up are summarized in the book, Another useful item that has not been included in other books about the assassination is the report by the New York Times on the. views of socialist figures in the. United States on the assassination, -This. covers the whole spectrum, from. the. Trotskyists, represented by Farrell Dobbs, national secretary of the Socialist Workers party, to the revisionist Earl Browder, former head of the Conmunist party, and the one~time radical Sidney Hook,
The book ends, appropriately, with extracts from the November 25 speech by Fidel Castro demanding a thorough investigation of the assassination, ,
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