Oswald's Game

by Jean Davison

Book Overview

Twenty years have passed since Presiden john F Kennedy was shot in Dallas, and although both the Warren Commission and the House Assassinations Committee concluded that Lee harvey Oswald was his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393017648
• ISBN13: 9780393017649
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 343 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Want To Get Inside The Mind Of A Presidential Assassin? .... "Oswald's Game" Takes You There

Jean Davison's "Oswald's Game" is 343 pages of impeccably-researched material detailing the very unusual 24-year life of Lee Harvey Oswald -- the man who was charged with assassinating President John F. Kennedy. During the many years since this 1983 book was published, Davison has defended her "Lone Assassin" position (at a variety of public JFK forums) with grace, dignity, and (above all) a wealth of facts to support the idea that Oswald was anything BUT an innocent "Patsy" on November 22nd, 1963. As the pages of this book are turned, it becomes easier and easier to climb inside the mind of Lee Harvey Oswald, and assess what probably was going through this strange man's head when he took it upon himself to carry a cheap mail-order rifle into work one day in 1963 and change the course of history. It's also interesting to note (via these intriguing pages) how Oswald has been severely mischaracterized by conspiracy theorists over the years as a person who could easily be manipulated (i.e., a "dupe" who could easily fall prey to some kind of "Patsy" plot). When, in reality, Lee Oswald was, himself, an expert "manipulator". This book details many, many verified instances where Oswald would cleverly manipulate his wife Marina to serve his own self-serving purposes....and how he manipulated the officials at the American Embassy in Russia, in order to secure the proper papers so that he could return to the United States in 1962 after defecting to the USSR. There is a clear and distinct PATTERN over many years of Oswald "using" people to serve his own needs and desires. This man Oswald was no brain-dead dupe....and would certainly have not been stupid enough to be suckered into some assassination plot in November 1963, whereby he would willingly take his own rifle into his own workplace for the purpose of handing it over to some co-conspirator, who would in turn use it to kill JFK. Conspiracists have too often (almost always, in fact) totally ignored the type of manipulative and scheming person Lee Harvey Oswald HIMSELF was in the months and years leading up to November 22nd, 1963. After reading "Oswald's Game", it's very nearly impossible to NOT say to yourself dozens of times throughout these chapters: This guy Oswald was just EXACTLY the type of crackpot Marxist who just might want to take a potshot at the President of the United States if given THE GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO (which he was afforded -- on 11/22/63 in Dallas, Texas). Here are some of my favorite passages and quotes from "Oswald's Game": "Is it possible that Castro's warning to American leaders gave Oswald the idea that Kennedy should be killed? ... Oswald was quoted as telling a consular official {in Mexico City} that he wanted to 'free Cuba from American imperialism'. Then he said, 'Someone ought to shoot that President Kennedy. Maybe I'll try to do it'. {Daniel} Schorr had uncovered two sources that reported Oswald's threat." -- Pages 22-23 ~~~~~~ "This book will presen