Title: Live by the sword
First published: 1998
Description: Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate.Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert Kennedy was personally supervising groups plotting against the Cuban leader. Filled with rage and a sense of destiny, Oswald went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico, announcing he would kill America’s president in exchange for sanctuary in Havana. 

*Live By the Sword* forces the conclusion that members of the Cuban regime accepted the troubled American’s offer. Russo shows that Oswald was indeed JFK’s lone assailant, but that after the president’s murder, a devastated Robert Kennedy and key officials launched a comprehensive coverup to hide its true causes. (from Amazon)
Subjects: Politics and government, Assassination, Foreign relations, Presidents, Conspiracies, Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 — Assassination, Cuba, foreign relations, United states, foreign relations, cuba, United states, foreign relations, 1945-1961, United states, foreign relations, 1961-1981, United states, politics and government, 1945-1989
Places: United States, Cuba
People: Fidel Castro (1926-2016), John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939-1963)
Time periods: 1961-1963, 1945-1989, 1953-1961
LC classification: E842.9 .R876 1998