One of the most important original documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to be published on the 50th anniversary of the event. The never before published diary of Edward Jay Epstein’s investigation into the assassination reveals startling new details. Epstein, one of America’s most acclaimed investigative journalists and widely acknowledged as the premier expert on the assassination, while still an undergraduate at Cornell, interviewed the members of the Warren Commission and its staff of investigators, and obtained their key files. He was the only journalist, ever, to have gained this access. His full findings are disclosed here for the first time. In his investigation, Epstein also interviewed the top officials of the CIA, including at length the legendary chief of counter-intelligence James Jesus Angleton. He was the only journalist to interview Yuri Nosenko, the KGB officer who claimed to be Oswald’s KGB case officer. Jim Garrison, the New Orleans district attorney, who attempted to reopen the case, confided his methods and sources in Epstein. Epstein was, moreover, the last person to see George De Mohrenschildt, Oswald’s mysterious White Russian friend, who he interviewed for hours until the moment when he took his secrets with him in death. The JFK Assassination Diary is the true story at last of the incredible answers Epstein unearthed in pursuit of the greatest crime of the 20th century.

Praise for Edward Jay Epstein
" E-books galore, too, such as Edward Jay Epstein’s fascinating, star-studded, and spook-haunted Assassination Diary, which provides the backstage story to Epstein’s investigative odyssey in the reporting of his Assassination Chronicles trilogy—Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend—which features a cast that includes New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison , Hannah Arendt, spymaster James Jesus Angleton, Norman Mailer, Gerald Ford, and, in a sheer nightgown atop a ladder, actress Pamela Tiffen"--James Wolcott, Vanity Fair
Edward Jay Epstein is the first journalist to have investigated the official accounts of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He remains the only one to have interviewed all the members of the Warren Commission, and would go on to be one of the great investigative journalists of the era,—Michael Wolff, USA Today

“Epstein believes that conspiracies are more common than most journalists credit; for much of his career, he has reveled in the kind of tantalizing clues that could lead somewhere, or nowhere.” —Joe Nocera, The New York Times

“Epstein is a bulldog researcher.” —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

“A brilliant investigator.” — Lou Dobbs

Praise For Agency of Fear

“Epstein tells all.”
—John Leonard, New York Times

“ Part detective story, part farce, part exposé, and part textbook on investigative reporting. It is ingenious, perverse, hilarious, and shocking.”
—Victor Navasky

“Exciting research, impressive thesis.”
—Norman Mailer

Praise For Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald

A fascinating, alarming, and enormously significant book on the mystery of Lee Harvey Oswald-- The New York Times Book Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Edward Jay Epstein is the author of fifteen books. He studied government at Cornell and Harvard and received a Ph.D from Harvard in 1973. His thesis on the search for political truth became a best-selling book, Inquest: The Warren Commission and the Establishment of Truth. His doctoral dissertation on television news was published as News From Nowhere. He is the recipient of numerous foundation grants and awards, including the prestigious Financial Times/Booz Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Award for both best biography and best business book for Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. He has written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in New York City.