Donald
Gibson was born in Philadelphia
in 1945. He served as a communications intelligence analyst in the
United States Air Force from 1964 to 1968.
After military service, Gibson returned to college to get a B.A. and
went on to complete a Ph.D. at the University
of Delaware. He has taught on a number of campuses, including
Oberlin and Middlesbury Colleges, and is currently at the Greensburg
Campus of the University of Pittsburgh.
Professor
Gibson's research on social power and on U.S. economic problems carried
out during the 1970s and 1980s led him to carrying out research into
the administration of John F. Kennedy.
This led to the writing of Battling Wall
Street: The Kennedy Presidency (1994). He also investigated
the assassination of Kennedy and eventually published The
Kennedy Assassination Cover-up (1999). In this book he
rejects the idea that the Mafia,
Anti-Castro Activists, Texas
Oilmen, Lyndon B. Johnson, J.
Edgar Hoover or the Federal Bureau of Investigation
were responsible for the president's death. Instead he argues that
it was a treasonous conspiracy executed by a network of wealthy private
individuals.
Other
books by Gibson include Environmentalism
(2002) and Communication, Power and the Media
(2004).
Open
Debate on the Kennedy Assassination
The
Kennedy Assassination Cover-up
(1)
Publisher's
blurb for Battling
Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency (1994)
More than
thirty years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy,
the meaning and the legacy of his presidency are as much the subject
of controversy as are the facts of his murder. Was JFK a tool of the
Eastern Establishment - of the corporate and banking elites - or was
he their bitterest enemy? Did his policies - domestic and international,
implemented and unfulfilled serve to continue the domination of the
powers-that-be, or did he attempt, and in many cases effect, a break
with America's aristocracy? In this intriguing and penetrating analysis,
Don Gibson does not simply replay the standard commentaries on the
Kennedy presidency, many of which are ill-informed, even if well-meaning.
Gibson looks at what JFK himself said, wrote, and did, contrasting
that with the words and actions of his enemies - the Wall Street Journal,
Fortune magazine, and the corporate and banking magnates themselves,
who, as this book shows, truly despised the President. The current
conventional wisdom depicts Kennedy as a cautious, even a conservative
president, a Tory Democrat committed to the status quo and to the
Establishment. But this book makes a compelling case to the contrary,
suggesting that President Kennedy was always willing to do battle
for his policies, even in the face of vicious attacks.
(2)
Publisher's
blurb for The
Kennedy Assassination Cover-up
(1999)
Over the course of nearly
four decades, polls have repeatedly shown that most Americans refuse
to accept the official story of the Kennedy Assassination. That story,
set forth by the media and by a Presidential Commission dominated
by representatives of the most powerful private forces in the nation,
was that the President was killed by a lone assassin with radical
tendencies and an abnormal mind. For those who did not believe this
tale, an avalanche of books appeared blaming a dizzying array of people
for the assassination. The Mafia, right-wingers, Cuban exiles, Texas
oilmen, LBJ, and the FBI, among others, have been charged with the
treasonous murder. Many people came forward, beginning in the period
immediately following the assassination, to blame the government itself
for killing its own leader. It is demonstrated in this book that everything
we can know about the cover-up suggests not a government or FBI or
Mafia conspiracy, but a treasonous conspiracy executed by a network
of wealthy private interests whose goals were at odds with almost
everything the energetic 35th president of the United States was doing.
That network set up Lee Harvey Oswald as a patsy and went into action
promoting the cover story within hours of the assassination. From
the afternoon of November 22, 1963, to the release of the so-called
Warren Report and beyond, a group of interconnected individuals seized
control of the investigation and of the official account.
(3)
Donald
Gibson, The
Kennedy Assassination Cover-up
(1999)
Jesse Curry makes it clear
that individuals from the Secret Service controlled the security arrangements
for President Kennedy's trip and people at the FBI controlled the
investigation. According to Curry," Winston G. Lawson of the
Washington Secret Service office was the central figure in the planning
of security arrangements. Curry emphasizes that the security provided
by Lawson was heavy except the "short stretch of Elm Street where
the President was shot." Curry notes that the Texas Book Depository
was "virtually ignored."
Curry points out that neither
the Secret Service nor the FBI asked for any help in locating possible
conspirators. The FBI had never shared the information it had on Oswald
prior to the assassination. Less than twelve hours after the assassination,
Curry transferred the evidence to the FBI, trusting them to do a good
job and to return the evidence. They did neither. The Secret Service
had already seized the body." Curry says that in the days after
the assassination Dallas investigators waited for the release of a
detailed autopsy report, complete
with photographic evidence. It never came and Curry says that he suspected
that some of the material was destroyed.
Curry saw signs of a conspiracy
in other aspects of the case as well. For example, Curry points to
numerous facts and reports which indicated that the President was
hit from the front. He also notes that a picture of the Book Depository
shows a man who looks like Oswald standing in front at the time the
President was killed.
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