The Strange Medical Saga Of Jfk

When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated President on January 20, 1961, two physicians who had previously saved his life and career were in attendance in case of an emergency. Over his entire life of forty-three years, he was continually plagued with a wide array of health issues. During infancy he almost died of scarlet fever. He survived an infamous PT 109 incident during World War II. After the war he collapsed due to adrenal failure known as Addison's Disease. At one point when he was a senator, he said he would rather die than continue tolerating his incredible back pain. To top off these incidents he had two major back surgeries, malaria, a host of infections, and what is today called celiac disease. He had been given last rites on two occasions. Just before and during his tenure in the White House of about 1000 days, his doctors began a series of innovative therapies that gave him the best health ever in the year of his assassination. About fifty years would pass before medical science was able to determine that he had a rare genetic disease called "autoimmune polyglandular syndrome" which wiped out his adrenals, thyroid, and testicles requiring hormone replacement. He developed a rare complication called "adhesive arachnoiditis" which is regarded by some as the world's worst back pain. His strange medical saga will likely remain as "one-of-a-kind."

What started as a medical investigation on the death of Howard Hughes nearly 50 years ago, has now become a fascinating historical work. A whole new perspective on the life of Howard Hughes is delivered here, brough forward through the lens of his medical history. In 1976, HH died suddenly without a will. His toxicology report showed large amounts of codeine in his system at the time of death. Was HH murdered, or was he kept addicted to control his money and empire? Did he die an early death due to medical neglect? There were multiple lawsuits and investigations. Most suspected nefarious motives behind his drug use, given the circumstances of his then reclusive lifestyle and mysterious death. Enter Dr. Forest Tennant, who received an unexpected phone call two years after HH died, from an agent of the Federal Government. He was asked to be a medical consultant on the Hughes case because of his vast experience at the time in treating addiction and pain. He was hired to investigate and analyze the few records that existed on Hughes secret medical conditions and to review the autopsy and toxicology reports. He was to give an opinion and testify as to whether his physicians had illegally supplied HH with narcotics. Was this the story of a deranged man addicted to drugs, or was he just a man who was in pain? HH was the 20th century's true renaissance man and was certainly the most enigmatic. The moniker "he came, he saw, he conquered" are fitting words. He was a mechanical genius and was wildly successful at multiple endeavors from his early 20's onward. This famous tycoon was the object of the press that filled the headlines of newspapers around the world for 50 years. From filmmaking success, aviation triumphs, business dealings, political machinations, and a dash of Hollywood starlets, the newspapers were filled with stories of HH. At age 24 during the filming of Hell's Angels HH experienced the first of a succession of serious injuries that permanently altered his life. Unfortunately, not much was known about head trauma at that time. He remained busy and engaged nonetheless in life and love but was starting to make rash decisions and at times showed lack of judgement and strange behavior. His germaphobia and other obsessive-compulsive behaviors were worsening. After another devastating plane crash in 1946, he sustained terrible injuries that he was extremely fortunate to survive. Upon release from the hospital was prescribed daily codeine due to severe pain. He remained very productive and active in his business dealings despite his medication use and pain. In the mid 1950's he entered a phase of life where he all but disappeared from public view and lived a reclusive life. He still managed his large business empire up until the time of his death. Dr. Tennant takes us on a historical journey into the medical conditions uncovered in his investigation that plagued HH and inadvertently forged his life. He suffered from a trio of disorders in which little was known about at the time: obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and intractable pain syndrome (IPS), and these disorders explain many of his unusual life habits. His medical saga is still of great interest to us today and much is to be learned from it. His medical treatments allowed him to live a very productive life despite severe injuries that caused constant pain. Thankfully, there is much that can now be done for the various maladies HH suffered from. This work sheds a compassionate and humane view of a man who contributed a great deal to the world in the 20th century.

THE ACCLAIMED BOOK, NOW IN PAPERBACK, with a reading group guide and a new afterword by the author. At the height of the Cold War, JFK risked committing the greatest crime in human history: starting a nuclear war. Horrified by the specter of nuclear annihilation, Kennedy gradually turned away from his long-held Cold Warrior beliefs and toward a policy of lasting peace. But to the military and intelligence agencies in the United States, who were committed to winning the Cold War at any cost, Kennedy’s change of heart was a direct threat to their power and influence. Once these dark "Unspeakable" forces recognized that Kennedy’s interests were in direct opposition to their own, they tagged him as a dangerous traitor, plotted his assassination, and orchestrated the subsequent cover-up. Douglass takes readers into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the President’s motorcade. As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda.

Bugliosi, brilliant prosecutor and bestselling author, is perhaps the only man in America capable of "prosecuting" Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder of John F. Kennedy. His book is a narrative compendium of fact, ballistic evidence, and, above all, common sense.

Reporting new and never-before-published information about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, this investigation dives straight into the deep end, and seeks to prove the CIA’s involvement in one of the most controversial topics in American history. Featuring intelligence gathered from CIA agents who reported their involvement in the assassination, the case is broken wide open while covering unexplored ground. Gritty details about the assassination are interlaced throughout, while primary and secondary players to the murder are revealed in the in-depth analysis. Although a tremendous amount has been written in the nearly five decades since the assassination, there has never been, until now, a publication to explore the aspects of the case that seemed to defy explanation or logic.

President Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an indepth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear war abroad to racial unrest at home.

Presents an analysis of the events surrounding the assassination of JFK and the subsequent investigation conducted by Jim Garrison, arguing that the evidence relied upon by the Warren Commission was smothered by the military-industrial complex and its civilian allies.

"We appreciate Roger Stone, he is one tough cookie." - President Trump The sensational New York Times bestseller, now in paperback. Find out how and why LBJ had JFK assassinated. The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ hit the New York Times bestseller list the week of the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Consummate political insider Roger Stone makes a compelling case that Lyndon Baines Johnson had the motive, means, and opportunity to orchestrate the murder of JFK. Stone maps out the case that LBJ blackmailed his way on the ticket in 1960 and was being dumped in 1964 to face prosecution for corruption at the hands of his nemesis attorney Robert Kennedy. Stone uses fingerprint evidence and testimony to prove JFK was shot by a long-time LBJ hit man—not Lee Harvey Oswald. President Johnson would use power from his personal connections in Texas, from the criminal underworld, and from the United States government to escape an untimely end in politics and to seize even greater power. President Johnson, the thirty-sixth president of the United States, was the driving force behind a conspiracy to murder President Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In The Man Who Killed Kennedy, you will find out how and why he did it. Legendary political operative and strategist Roger Stone has gathered documents and uses his firsthand knowledge to construct the ultimate tome to prove that LBJ was not only involved in JFK’s assassination, but was in fact the mastermind. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.