Oblivion
Subtitle: The Mystery of West Point Cadet Richard Cox
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Brassey's Inc
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781574880434
Subjects: Biography: general; History; Warfare & Defence; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Military - General; Intelligence Operations; Military Personnel; History - Military / War; United States; History: American; USA; General; Biography; Cox, Richard Colvin; Military cadets; Missing persons; United States Military Academy
Description: On Saturday, January 14, 1950, at 6:18 P.M., Cadet Richard Cox left his room at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to go to dinner with an unidentified visitor. The man was supposedly someone Cox had known when they served in an intelligence unit in Germany. Cox never returned. In 1957, Richard Cox was declared legally dead, and the files were closed. It was as if he had vanished off the face of the earth. Then in 1985, thirty-five years after Cox's disappearance, a.

Retired history teacher named Marshall Jacobs decided to pursue the mystery as a research project. Through the Freedom of Information Act, he obtained voluminous once-secret files from the Army and FBI. Jacobs plunged into a labyrinthine search - and what began as a hobby became an obsession. He traveled the country interviewing witnesses from the Florida Keys to the Pacific Northwest. What he discovered were tales of murder, intrigue, and cover-up. It took more than.

Seven years, but Jacobs eventually found the one witness who enabled him to bring the case to closure. In Oblivion, Harry J. Maihafer tell the enthralling story of Jacob's search for Richard Cox. Its startling climax is one that readers will long remember.