Destiny Betrayed, Second Edition

JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case

By: James DiEugenio

Narrated by: Paul Neal Rohrer

If you thought you already knew everything there was to know about the Kennedy assassination, think again.

If you enjoyed the chilling experience of In Cold Blood and were at the edge of your seat while watching Oliver Stone’s JFK, you’ll love this investigative look into all the facets of one of the top conspiracies of the 20th century and beyond. DiEugenio, who has spent decades researching the Kennedy assassination, takes both an analytical and conversational approach to his fascinating exploration of the pivotal historical events and scandals surrounding that day.

Twenty years after the first edition of Destiny Betrayed, DiEugenio is back with his ever-expanding investigation into the life and death of JFK. But this is no simple reissue. It is a greatly revised and expanded version of the original book, including updates on all the topics it introduced back in 1992. DiEugenio has used the declassification process of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) to obtain the most current information on topics like the Garrison investigation and Clay Shaw; the newly exposed fallacies of the Warren Commission; U.S.-Cuban policy from 1957 to 1963; Kennedy's withdrawal plan from Vietnam; Kennedy's challenge to the Cold War consensus in 1961, and where those ideas originated; the ARRB medical inquiry demonstrating conspiracy and cover up; and the problems with the investigation of the Kennedy case. DiEugenio’s primary focus is on the Garrison inquiry, the New Orleans aspects of the Kennedy murder investigation, and the revelatory new information that bolsters Garrison’s case and has been withheld from the public.

All of this and more is contained in the narrative of this complex crime, with twin focuses on the victim, John F. Kennedy, and the investigator, Jim Garrison.

©1992, 2012 James DiEugenio (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Surreal masterpiece

This book is a 5 star audio masterpiece - the narration is a feature, not a bug people. A new, incompetent voice for every character! A work of mad genius

Awful history, entertaining narration.

People complaining about the narration, which is over the top to say the least, are looking past the real problem: almost everything in this book has been discredited by other authors and DiEugenio does nothing to directly engage with their evidence and/or arguments. He cites few sources for his wild claims, jumping from one 'shocking fact' to another without ever letting us know how this information came to light. If you take him for his word, it's fascinating. If you start to dig deeper, it's just fiction. I was hoping for a real look at the evidence, but just got another assassination fluff piece. Read Bugliosi, then read Posner (or the other way around) and then read this.

Very thought provoking !

The books content was exceptional. Mountains of research and previously unknown information revealed.
But, the narrative style was not to my taste. The narrator was very good but, the voice impersonating should have been left out.
I highly recommend this book for it’s informative content.

excellent

this was one of the best Kennedy assassination books I've ever read. Very compelling filled with relevant and pertinent information. Did not go off in 2 areas of speculation but kept to the facts. Illuminated me on a lot of these goings-on in Cuba before the assassinations. The only issue I found is that the chapter seem to skip every once in awhile and I lost my place when the narrator was talkin. Maybe a technical glitch. Other than that will work the time my first audiobook.

The impersonations!!!!!!

I enjoy Jim DiEugenio’s work and having read this book I went into listening to the audiobook with some excitement... the reading is pretty good until you hit the impersonations of JFK, Johnson, Nixon and others. Holy moly! In my opinion the impersonations are just not in tune with the character of the text.

Anyhow, Destiny Betrayed is an important book and I would recommend reading it. If you don’t have time for that, go ahead and listen but prepare yourself for a horrendous Kennedy imitation to appear here and there.

No conspiracy theorizing - just critique a plenty.

A smart and clean amalgamation of facts and circumstances brought to light by dogged buffs and researchers since the days of the creation of the WCR. The author presents his material in such coherent and contextualizing manner that certainly some will no doubt be provoked into reflexively crying 'Conspiracy theory!' for any number of perfectly understandable reasons.

I for one did not come across much theorizing in this book. Instead, I was fluently entertained by a disturbing narrative of how easily pearls of great price can be overlooked or thrown back to sea by those charged with finding them and stringing them together.

Great Book, Horrible Horrible Narration

Jim D has done some great research here and the content is so rich. Its a shame that this wonderful audiobook is ruined by the comical narration of Rohrer. Everything was going fine until Rohrer degenerated into fake voices and accents for each speaker. It was incredibly distracting from the content, and it almost seemed comical. I truly am at a loss that professionals, probably at many levels, allowed this to be released in this form with this narration. It is SO distracting that I don't think I can continue to listen to it. Too bad.

What’s my motivation?

Good content, really worth while and informative. However, the narrator has obviously approached his task as if he were suffering from schizophrenia. The accents. The acting. The shame! The narrator’s performance compels me to laugh at various parts of this book which are not humorous.
Solely because of this bizarre performance (and certainly not the content), the performance should be called, “The Muppets Solve The Assassination”

Narration was not pleasant . Story very informative

The narrator made a distracting practice of trying to mimic accents and everyone came off sounding cartoonish-even poor President Kennedy.

Important work by a respected researcher.

A detailed, awesome piece of work ruined by an abysmal narration. Imagine seeing an important historical play with all the parts played by Yosemite Sam. That's what this narration was like. I mean, this guy even gave Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby thick, over-the-top Texas drawls. Had he not even seen the abundance of videos of the two speaking? When he began calling Robert Maheu (may-hew) "Ma-hoo" (like Yahoo), I was pretty much done.