Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “I urge all Americans to read this book” JFK AND THE UNSPEAKABLE: WHY HE DIED AND WHY IT MATTERS by James Douglass www.orbisbooks.com/jfk-and-the-unspeakable.html “In JFK and the Unspeakable Jim Douglass has distilled all the best available research into a very well-documented and convincing portrait of President Kennedy's transforming turn to peace, at the cost of his life. Personally, it has made a very big impact on me. After reading it in Dallas, I was moved for the first time to visit Dealey Plaza. I URGE ALL AMERICANS TO READ THIS BOOK and come to their own conclusions about why he died and why — after fifty years — it still matters.” — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. www.orbisbooks.com/a-monthly-letter-from-orbis-books-editor-robert-ellsberg.html “This statement is itself historic: the first time any member of the Kennedy family has publicly endorsed a book that attributes President Kennedy's assassination to a conspiracy involving the military-intelligence establishment of the U.S. government. But what sets Douglass's book apart from the many treatments of Kennedy's assassination is his methodical case for the reasons behind it: to thwart the President's extraordinary turn toward peace, especially his back-channel negotiations with Nikita Khrushchev to dismantle the Cold War. So, elements of his own government viewed the President as a dangerous traitor, one to be eliminated. “Only by remembering this story can we take up the challenge that Kennedy left unfinished — the challenge to make peace our legacy for generations yet unborn.”.