James Hepburn, Farewell America: the Plot to Kill Jfk

[chiggerbit]

I'm curious if anyone's read this old JFK assassination book:

http://tinyurl.com/52oytv

Originally published in Europe in 1968, this is a once-notorious, now-dated look at John Kennedy's assassination and an excoriation of the American scene in its aftermath. Turner (Rearview Mirror, etc. ) explains in his introduction that the book was first published under mysterious circumstances and was "aimed at advancing the 1968 presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy, " but its U.S. distribution was rapidly curtailed after RFK's death. The authors ("James Hepburn" is a pseudonym) conducted clandestine research among KGB and Interpol agents and French petroleum espionage specialists...

[chiggerbit]

Hmmm, looks like it's online:

http://www.voxfux.com/kennedy/farewell/farewell00.html

The following work by the pseudonymous "James Hepburn" is largely accepted to be authored by French Intelligence (Their equivalent to our CIA) as the "real" story behind the Kennedy assassination. Originally published in 1968 it remained unpublished in the United States for many years. With the advent of the Internet and the information explosion, it is now freely available. It describes the most probable players and conspirators in the terrible assassination of the beloved Kennedy - The military intelligence set; the oil and arms industrialists; Religious zelots and organized crime are all here and in the background the ever looming shadow the maltese cross of the secret religious orders. It's the compelling facts. As for the "Official" goverment version of the Kennedy assassination - we all know what that's worth.
voxfux

[chiggerbit]

A critique here:

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/fa.txt

[chiggerbit]

And here:

http://www.jfk-online.com/farewellweisberg.html

....It is tragic that no single publisher had the interest or concern to commission a work plumbing the literary morass of what was officially hidden. Many competent investigative reporters engaged in newspaper, magazine and book writing were available. The wealthy houses fight for cheap sensation. Several offered advances against royalties that went into six figures for literary scrimshaw in support of the official mythology on political assassinations.

The glut was enough to convince concerned publishers, of whom there remain a few, that books on this subject can no longer pay their own way. There seems to be none willing to risk financial loss in order to bring to light officially suppressed facts about how and why the President was killed and about how his murder was investigated.

Indeed, there is reasonable ground for suspecting that some of the most disreputable works were designed to kill interest. One is an extravagant work of unprecedented libel, meticulous in its pseudoscholarship, expertly written and edited, put together in an operation so vast and costly that I have traced those engaged in it to eight different countries. There is no doubt that those connected with intelligence operations of the United States and France at the very least were behind Farewell America and a movie of the same title, the aborting of which I was able to help in a small way. It was the book to end the credibility of all books on assassinations.

Incredibly, its excesses fascinate the intelligent but unthinking marginal paranoids among those genuinely concerned about these assassinations, even though the book itself cannot survive consideration of its content.

From Harold Weisberg, Post Mortem
(Frederick, Maryland: Harold Weisberg, 1975), p. 370

[chiggerbit]

Where is Hugh when you want him?

[FourthBase]

Hoax or not, it's easily the most eloquently written book in assassination literature (barring explicitly fictional works by the likes of Delillo etc.) and my gut instinct is that it's not a hoax.