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peace activist and author James W. Douglass
James W. "Jim" Douglass is an American author, activist, and Christian theologian born in 1937. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University. He and his wife, Shelley Douglass, founded the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, and Mary’s House, a Catholic Worker house in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1997 the Douglasses received the Pacem in Terris Award.
Douglass is a noted author on nonviolence and Catholic theology, with many books and essays to his credit. Four of his monographs, published from 1968 to 1991, were reprinted in 2006 by theology publisher Wipf & Stock.
Douglass's 2008 book, JFK and the Unspeakable, discusses the John F. Kennedy assassination as a conspiracy ordered by unknown parties and carried out by the CIA with help from the Mafia and elements in the FBI to put an end to Kennedy's effort to end the Cold War after the Cuban missile crisis.
JFK and the Unspeakable was first published by Orbis Books in Maryknoll, New York, and reprinted by Simon & Schuster.
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The Better India
February 13, 2018
... of the Nipponzan-Myōhōji order of Buddhism, whose supporters range from the acclaimed American author James W Douglass to Mahatma Gandhi. ... against the arms race during the Cold War, founded the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace and in fact denounced the Vietnam War in Parliament.
Sojourners
December 13, 2017
Daniel Ellsberg (@DanielEllsberg) is a writer and activist. His most recent book is The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.. Posts By This Author. Talking Peace With a Nuclear War Planner. by Daniel Ellsberg, by James W. Douglass 11-27-2017. An interview with 'The Post' whistleblower, DanielÃâà...
Foreign Policy Journal (blog)
October 30, 2017
If you really want to know who killed President Kennedy and why, read JFK and the Unspeakable. Yes, there are other carefully researched books that you can read. Douglass concludes that Kennedy was murdered because he turned to peace. He was going to work with Khrushchev to end the Cold War.
Variety
October 30, 2017
Back in the '80s, the enlightened JFK conspiracy buff gravitated to scenarios that fingered the Mob. These days, the smart money, abetted by books like “JFK and the Unspeakable,” published in 2008 by the Catholic theologian James W. Douglass, says that the American security state, led by forces withinÃâà...
The Guardian
October 27, 2017
In 1974, Charles McCarry's The Tears of Autumn suggests that the killing was ordered by South Vietnam in retaliation for the assassination of its president, Ngo Dinh Diem, during a coup engineered by the CIA in 1963. As McCarry was a former CIA agent, readers suspected that the writer was fictionalisingÃâà...
America Magazine
September 19, 2017
Pope John XXIII and President Kennedy were sowing seeds of peace with the United Nations headquarters towering in the background. (If they walked a few more paces, they would be floating in the East River.) On our kitchen wall hung a Sunday-supplement color photo of the Kennedy family in theirÃâà...
Sputnik International
August 4, 2017
The trouble is the official version of JFK's killing has already been exposed as a preposterous fraud by numerous independent researchers and writers. Perhaps the best account on the event is provided by James W Douglass in his book, JFK and the Unspeakable. There are several others, but Douglass'Ãâà...
The Independent
May 28, 2017
JFK – those three letters complementing each other as they come trippingly off the tongue – is commemorated in a network of place names, bequeathing the slain President's legacy on a ..... James W Douglass postulates in JFK and the Unspeakable that the Cuban missile crisis changed his perspective.
Foreign Policy Journal
July 22, 2016
See for example, JFK and the Unspeakable by James W. Douglass. Shortly before he was murdered, President John F. Kennedy gave an extraordinary speech at American University. In the speech he came out against continuation of the Cold War that risked all life on earth for the benefit of the profits ofÃâà...
RollingStone.com
November 20, 2013
Hugh Sidey, a journalist and friend, wrote that the governing aspect of JFK's leadership was "a total revulsion" of war. Nevertheless, as James W. Douglass argues in his book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, JFK's presidency would be a continuous struggle with his own militaryÃâà...
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