On The Front Lines
Author Joan Mellen Speaks to OldSpeak about her new book 'A Farewell to Justice,' conspiracies to murder JFK & evidence of a possible CIA cover-up
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - In an interview with John W. Whitehead for OldSpeak, the online journal of The Rutherford Institute, author Joan Mellen talks about her new book, A Farewell to Justice, elaborates on her research into the conspiracies to murder President John F. Kennedy and offers extensive evidence to support a CIA cover-up of its role in the 1963 assassination. In particular, Mellen highlights New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's efforts to implicate New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw and CIA personnel along with Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination attempts.
A professor of English and creative writing at Temple University in Philadelphia, Joan Mellen's new book, A Farewell to Justice, presents a comprehensive account of the investigative work of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This groundbreaking work offers extensive evidence that the cover-up began in Louisiana months before the President was shot. Mellen undertook her own investigations in her quest to show a clear connection to the government and its intelligence agencies in both the assassination and the cover-up. New evidence includes government documents revealing that the FBI and the CIA actively worked with journalists and reporters from Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post and even a government operative at NBC television to "cover" the Garrison investigation. Mellen also reveals new information on Lee Harvey Oswald's relationship to the International Trade Mart and CIA-sponsored anti-Castro figures in New Orleans. Joan Mellen has authored seventeen books on various subjects, including biography, film criticism, fiction, sports, Latin American studies and true crime. Her biographies, Kay Boyle: Author of Herself (1994) and Hellman and Hammett (1996), were listed as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and Hellman and Hammett was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun. Mellen's book The Battle of Algiers (1972) has been extensively quoted concerning its connection with the events of 9/11.
