Attack on Terror: The FBI Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (SIGNED BY J. EDGAR HOOVER TO DALLAS FBI CHIEF GORDON SHANKLIN)
New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 Inches. 321 PP. Very Good / Very Good. Item #8362
"The FBI did not have Oswald under surveillance" - J. Gordon Shanklin to Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry (this statement was later proven false by the FBI's own file release)
VERY IMPORTANT COPY FOR THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION ENTHUSIAST!
First edition copy of this book, which was sent by J. Edgar Hoover to James Gordon Shanklin in December of 1971. Signed, "To Gordon Shanklin / Best Wishes / J. Edgar Hoover / X'mas 71" on the ffep. Accompanied by a personal calling card from Hoover. Shanklin rose to national notoriety as the Head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's office in Dallas, TX at the time of the Kennedy assassination. Having been stationed in Dallas only seven months prior to the murder of President John F. Kennedy, Shanklin found himself in the crosshairs of history. Decades old conspiracy theories about that day often cite Shanklin as part of the conspiracy to assassinate the President. While the existence of a conspiracy has never been proven, the Garrison case did bring to light a letter from Lee Harvey Oswald prior to shooting that Shanklin had ordered destroyed...
In public, J. Edgar Hoover was critical of Shanklin's handling of the Kennedy assassination for the FBI's Dallas office. Obviously, he privately cared enough about Shanklin to still be sending him holiday gifts almost a decade later!
Book itself has a slight lean to spine. Ink to rear endpaper. Price-clipped.
Price: $1,000.00