Nikita Khrushchev

Action adventure novel Saving Jackie K explores escalating tensions between the US and Russia, in the ‘Cold War’ timeframe preceding JFK’s tragic assassination. Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, is shown with increasing hostility toward the US and our president. Khrushchev risked global nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Would the communist dictator be bold enough to orchestrate the assassination of our thirty-fifth president? Did he send trained KGB (Committee for State Security) Agents to shoot JFK?

During the power struggle following the 1953 death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Khrushchev eventually emerged victorious. By late 1956, the new leader taunted the US and its western allies with the threat, “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.”

In Kennedy‘s first year in office, 1961, Khrushchev showcased his hothead temper in an exchange at a United Nations Plenary Meeting. The Soviet premier put forth a resolution decrying colonialism by Western Europe, and the Philippine Ambassador challenged him on his hypocrisy, countering that Russia was equally guilty of colonialism in Eastern Europe. Khrushchev responded in a rage, taking off his right shoe and pounding it repeatedly on the desk. He then creatively called the Filipino a jerk, a stooge, and a lackey of imperialism.

Read The Greatest Speeches John F. Kennedy – eBook

In October 1962, Khrushchev conspired with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and began secretly planting intermediate-range ballistic missiles in Cuba, with trajectories capable of striking the United States. When US reconnaissance drones discovered the missile sites, the world was brought to the brink of a nuclear war, during what would come to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. Acting quickly, JFK ordered a Naval blockade of supplies and weapons from being shipped to Cuba from Russia. In an October 22 speech, he condemned the soviet leader: “I call upon Chairman Khrushchev to halt and eliminate this clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace and to stable relations between our two nations.” The ploy worked. Several weeks later, Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the bombs, and Kennedy subsequently lifted the quarantine.

By August of 1963, world leaders seemed to making overtures toward peace, at least symbolically. Along with Great Britain, both the US and USSR signed a joint Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. The accord was enacted to prohibit experimental detonations of atomic weapons in the atmosphere, outer space, and under water, effectively allowing only underground explosions. The purported rationale was to slow the arms race and prevent excessive fallout.

The two super powers then began making plans for a second historic summit. Kennedy and Khrushchev had previously met in Vienna, 1961, with harsh words being exchanged on both sides. But hopes for improved relations between the two men and their countries were dashed on November 22, 1963, when JFK was assassinated.

I’m Just a Patsy! Lee Harvey Oswald In His Own Words

Suspects

• Suspects Home
  
• Lee Harvey Oswald
  
• Jack Ruby
  
• Lyndon Johnson
  
• Richard M. Nixon
  
• J. Edgar Hoover
  
• Fidel Catrro
  
• Nikita Khrushchev
  
• The Mafia
  
• The CIA
  
• The FBI
  

Participants

• JD Tippit
  
• Ruth Paine
  
• Marina Oswald
  

Central Intelligence Agency

CIA

The CIA had several widely known conflicts with President Kennedy, despite the fact that his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, effectively had authority over the Agency. Would these be enough for the Agency to kill the president and organize a massive cover-up?

Early in JFK’s presidency, the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion caused a strain on his relationship with the CIA. In an effort to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Communist reign of Cuba, the US sent CIA-trained Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

President Kennedy authorized the invasion plan, but he was determined to disguise US backing. However, as news broke of the attack, photos of the US planes bombing Cuban airfields became public and revealed American support for the invasion. Thus, President Kennedy cancelled a second air strike. Cuban armed forces – trained and equipped by Russia – defeated the invading combatants within three days.

Photo of US Air Force bombing Cuban Airfields.

Thriller novel, Saving Jackie K, explores a fictional universe where the JFK conspiracy plot failed, and Jackie Kennedy was killed by mistake.

In the factual universe, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Some conspiracy theorists blame the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for orchestrating the coup.

Because of the public embarrassment of the failure, Kennedy fired CIA director Allen Dulles. A source claims that Kennedy wanted “To splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”

I’m Just a Patsy! Lee Harvey Oswald In His Own Words

Kennedy also purportedly disagreed with the CIA’s involvement in foreign assassinations, such as the murder of Vietnamese President Diem in November of 1963.

JFK was killed just three weeks after Diem.

Read The Greatest Speeches John F. Kennedy – eBook

Kennedy Conspiracy Suspects

• Suspects Home
  
• Lee Harvey Oswald
  
• Jack Ruby
  
• Lyndon Johnson
  
• Richard M. Nixon
  
• J. Edgar Hoover
  
• Fidel Catrro
  
• Nikita Khrushchev
  
• The Mafia
  
• The CIA
  
• The FBI
  

Kennedy Conspiracy Participants

• JD Tippit
  
• Ruth Paine
  
• Marina Oswald
  

Fidel Castro

From the outset of his presidency, Kennedy yearned for Castro to be removed from power. JFK subscribed to the Domino Theory, which argued that if a country fell to communism, its neighbors would follow. And, Castro capitulated to the whims of his communist ally, Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of Russia.

During the 1950s, the Caribbean island nation of Cuba was run by US-backed military dictator and president, Fulgencio Batista. In 1959, rebel leader Fidel Castro banded together with his brother Raul Castro and friend Che Guevera to stage a revolution. Castro successfully overthrew Batista, and began his decades-long communist rule over the former Spanish colony.

In narrating the story of the Kennedy Assassination, blockbuster Saving Jackie K considers several foreign leaders with grudges against JFK. One of the most obvious is Cuba’s long-term dictator, Fidel Castro. Did Castro mastermind the plot to kill Kennedy?

Kennedy began sparring with Castro in April of 1961 by executing the Bay of Pigs Invasion. CIA-backed Cuban exiles were sent in to overthrow Castro’s regime. However, he reneged on promised US Air Force support, and the operation failed.

Castro enacted a form of retaliation a year and a half later, when he allowed the Soviet Union to build nuclear launch pads on his country’s soil, within range of the continental US. When American Air Force reconnaissance planes discovered the sites, The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the adversaries to the brink of an all-out nuclear conflict. Kennedy ordered a Naval blockade, preventing weapons and supplies from being shipped to Cuba from Russia. He successfully avoided disaster by a narrow margin.

Read The Greatest Speeches John F. Kennedy – eBook

In September of 1963, Castro denounced US-prompted raids on Cuban soil: “We are prepared to fight them and answer in kind. The United States leaders should think that if they are aiding terrorist plans to eliminate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.”

In November, Kennedy countered in a speech delivered to the Inter-American Press Association in Miami, where he called Cuba a pawn of Russia: “It is the fact that a small band of conspirators has stripped the Cuban people of their freedom and handed over the independence and sovereignty of the Cuban nation to forces beyond the hemisphere.” And went on to offer support if the Cuban people revolted, “For once Cuban sovereignty has been restored, we will extend the hand of friendship and assistance to a Cuba whose political and economic institutions have been shaped by the will of the Cuban people.”

      Less than a week later, Kennedy was dead.

I’m Just a Patsy! Lee Harvey Oswald In His Own Words

JFK Conspiracy Suspects

• Suspects Home
  
• Lee Harvey Oswald
  
• Jack Ruby
  
• Lyndon Johnson
  
• Richard M. Nixon
  
• J. Edgar Hoover
  
• Fidel Catrro
  
• Nikita Khrushchev
  
• The Mafia
  
• The CIA
  
• The FBI
  

Participants

• JD Tippit
  
• Ruth Paine
  
• Marina Oswald
  

According to newly declassified documents from the JFK files, the CIA received reports in the 1950’s that Adolf Hitler had escaped Germany and was living among former Nazi’s in Colombia. The CIA’s bureau chief in Venezuela had passed the information onto his superiors, along with a picture of a man “who strongly resembled and claimed to be” Hitler.

Recently declassified documents from the CIA archives reveal the testimony of a man who claimed to have met Hitler in Colombia in the 1950s. The informant, a German SS trooper, claimed that a man named Adolf Schritteimayor was living in a community of former Nazis who greeted him with the Nazi salute- and he had a photograph to prove it.

According to Citroen, many former Nazis were living in Tunja and were “addressing him -the alleged Hitler- as ‘der Fuhrer’ and affording him the Nazi salute and storm-trooper adulation.” The intelligence agency did not take the claim seriously, however, and suggested that “this matter be dropped” because “enormous efforts -to confirm the rumors- could be expanded on this matter with remote possibilities of establishing anything concrete.”

It is widely believed that Adolf Hitler committed suicide in a bunker in Berlin on April 30, 1945 by gunshot and cyanide shortly before the Soviet army overtook the city. His body was buried in an unmarked grave.

Hitler’s fate has been subject to widespread speculation. According to a report in 2009, Soviet KGB agents burned Hitler’s remains in 1970 and threw them into a river in Germany based on orders by then chief Yuri Andropov. According to the report, the bodies of Hitler, his companion Eva Braun and the Goebbels family were discovered by the Soviet Army in May 1945.

But such account sparked more doubts. Nick Bellantoni of the University of Connecticut in 2009 analyzed a piece of a skull that Russia claimed it belonged to Hitler, but the scientist confirmed that it rather came from a 20 to-40-year-old woman.

Hitler Death

German Chancelor and leader of the Nazi Party of Germany Adolf Hitler poses

Read The Greatest Speeches John F. Kennedy – eBook

I’m Just a Patsy! Lee Harvey Oswald In His Own Words

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Thriller Saving Jackie K describes several suspects with a motive to kill President John F. Kennedy. Lyndon Baines Johnson, JFK’s VP, clearly benefited from the president’s demise, as he instantly became the new Commander in Chief. Would ascending to the presidency be enough incentive to plot a murder?

A native Texan born in 1908, Lyndon Johnson grew up in a small farmhouse in Stonewall. LBJ is said to have proposed to his wife on their first date. But Claudia Alta Taylor&#151nicknamed Lady Bird&#151stalled him for ten weeks until marrying him in November 1934. The Johnsons bestowed the family initials upon each of their two daughters—LBJ.

Before teaming up with Kennedy, Johnson enjoyed a quarter-century political career in his own right, as a US House Representative and a US Senator, both from Texas. In 1960, JFK asked Johnson to be his Vice Presidential running mate, in a move to garner support from Southern Democrats. However, after winning the presidency, Johnson was routinely excluded from decision-making, relegating him to a virtually powerless position.

I’m Just a Patsy! Lee Harvey Oswald In His Own Words

Campaigning for reelection, Johnson and his wife joined the Kennedy’s for a tour of five Texas cities in November 1963. LBJ participated in the trip, again in a political move to sway the Southern vote, despite rumors that JFK planned to drop him from the ticket. In Dallas, the Johnson’s were riding in an open limousine two cars behind the president’s when JFK was mortally wounded.

After Kennedy was declared dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital, LBJ returned to Love Field airport with his body. Onboard Air Force One, Johnson was sworn in as the thirty-sixth president of the United States.

Arguably with the most to gain from Kennedy’s demise, LBJ went on to be elected to his own term in the White House. But Johnson reportedly blamed the conspiracy on Kennedy’s mishandling of relations with neighboring communist country, Cuba. According to a news reporter, Johnson said about the conspiracy, “Kennedy was trying to get Castro, but Castro got to him first.”

Suspects

• Suspects Home
  
• Lee Harvey Oswald
  
• Jack Ruby
  
• Lyndon Johnson
  
• Richard M. Nixon
  
• J. Edgar Hoover
  
• Fidel Catrro
  
• Nikita Khrushchev
  
• The Mafia
  
• The CIA
  
• The FBI
  

Read The Greatest Speeches John F. Kennedy – eBook

Participants

• JD Tippit
  
• Ruth Paine
  
• Marina Oswald
  

Cinematic new thriller, Saving Jackie K exposes the secrets of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In real life, the Warren Commission accused social misfit and loner Lee Harvey Oswald of committing the atrocity.

On October 18, 1939, a boy who would become infamous was born in New Orleans to a recent widow. Lee Harvey Oswald’s father had died two months before his birth, forsaking him to a virtually unsupervised childhood as the youngest of three brothers. Oswald’s oblivious mother, Marguerite Oswald, later boasted of her truant son, “I consider that normal . . . playing hooky from school. Many, many boys do this.”

Days after his seventeenth birthday, Oswald enlisted in the US Marine Corps, following in the footsteps of his idolized brother, Robert. The young military enlistee was deployed in Japan and various locations in the South Pacific. Like all marines, he learned to shoot, and earned the distinction of Marksman, a level below that of Sharpshooter.

Oswald had already declared himself to be a Marxist by the age of fifteen, and while in military service he dedicated his free time to the unusual hobby of learning to speak and read Russian. In September 1959 he received a hardship discharge from active service, claiming his ailing mother needed his assistance.

His self-taught rudimentary Russian skills proved to be part of a longer-term plan when in October 1959, the twenty-year-old defected to the USSR. After an apparent suicide attempt, he was granted a menial job at the Gorizont Electronics plant in Minsk. He received a stipend and an apartment. He married a Russian girl he had known for six weeks, Marina Prusakova, in an effort to make another girlfriend jealous. In Oswald’s Historic Diary penned in the Soviet Union, he wrote, “In spite of (the) fact I married Marina to hurt Ella, I found myself in love with Marina.”

After two and a half years, Oswald grew bored with the Spartan life in Russia, writing, “I am starting to reconsider my desire about staying. The work is drab, the money I get has nowhere to be spent. No nightclubs or bowling alleys, no places of recreation except the trade union dances. I have had enough.” Together with his wife and infant daughter, he returned to the US.

Oswald bounced around, living in various locations in Texas and Louisiana. After gaining some notoriety by passing out leaflets in New Orleans for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, he was interviewed by local press. He announced his political affiliations: “I will very definitely say that I am a Marxist, that is correct. But that does not mean, however, that I am a communist.”

The Oswalds wound up in the Dallas area, where Lee found work at the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza. Another daughter was born to the young couple, but Lee did not live with his family. He rented an elfin room in Oak Cliff, while Marina resided in Irving with her friend, Mrs. Ruth Paine.

According to the Warren Commission Report, Lee Harvey Oswald brought his bolt-action Mannlicher-Carcano rifle to work on the morning of November 22, 1963. As the president’s motorcade passed in front of the Book Depository, Oswald fired three shots out of the sixth floor window, injuring Texas Governor John Connally, and mortally wounding President John F. Kennedy. The alleged assassin then engaged in an ill-conceived escape plan where in quick succession, he rode a bus, then a taxi, to the vicinity of his boarding house. After retrieving a pistol, he gunned down a police officer JD Tippit in cold blood, and retreated to a movie theater where he was arrested.

While being transferred to the county jail two days later, Oswald himself was fatally shot by nightclub owner, Jack Ruby. After his funeral, Oswald’s mother Marguerite inexplicably announced, “Lee Harvey Oswald, my son, even after his death, has done more for his country than any other living human being.”

What did Lee Harvey Oswald say?

I’m Just a Patsy! Lee Harvey Oswald In His Own Words

In order to solve the most notorious conspiracy of the twentieth century, one must examine the evidence, and look at the accused with a critical eye. This book is a compendium of Oswald’s own words, including personal letters, a self-titled ‘historic diary,’ political rants, and even a manuscript on life in Russia.

L.D.C. Fitzgerald, author of the thriller novel, “Saving Jackie K” has transcribed Oswald’s ramblings and woven them together in chronological order.

With Fitzgerald’s insightful, witty commentary, the documents tell a story of a passionate young man who follows his dream to defect to Communist Russia, and then becomes bitterly disillusioned when he recognizes the utter drudgery of his life, and the imperfections of the political system he idealized.

Oswald was an oddball, a malcontent, and a lone nut. A man smart enough to teach himself to read and speak Russian, he was incapable of holding down even menial jobs. A self-declared Marxist, he executed his fanatical defection to Russia with foresight and tenacity, but he never learned the simple skill of driving a car.

Oswald’s words chronicle his indifference to family, search for notoriety, pursuit of a perfect political system, and his renewed interest in defecting.

Did Oswald kill President Kennedy? Read his innermost thoughts and revolutionary agenda before drawing your own conclusion.

JFK Assassination Suspects Profiles

• Suspects Home
  
• Lee Harvey Oswald
  
• Jack Ruby
  
• Lyndon Johnson
  
• Richard M. Nixon
  
• J. Edgar Hoover
  
• Fidel Catrro
  
• Nikita Khrushchev
  
• The Mafia
  
• The CIA
  
• The FBI
  

Other Participants in the JFK Assassination

• JD Tippit
  
• Ruth Paine
  
• Marina Oswald
  

Speeches John F. Kennedy eBook

Saving Jackie K is an action-adventure novel that springs from a dark premise – what if the political assassins killed Jacqueline Kennedy instead of her husband?

In the real world, Jacqueline Kennedy was renowned as a fashion icon for women all over the world. She retained French-born American fashion designer and Kennedy family friend Oleg Cassini in the fall of 1960 to create an original wardrobe for her as First Lady.

From 1961 to late 1963, Cassini dressed her in many of her most iconic ensembles, including her Inauguration Day fawn coat and Inaugural gala gown as well as many outfits for her visits to foreign countries. Her clean suits with a skirt hem down to middle of the knee, three-quarter sleeves on notch-collar jackets, sleeveless A-line dresses, above-the-elbow gloves, low-heel pumps, and famous pillbox hats were an overnight success around the world. Although Cassini was her primary designer, she also wore ensembles by French fashion legends such as Chanel, Givenchy, and Dior.

Speeches John F. Kennedy eBook

Ann Lowe designed Jackie’s wedding dress – a dramatic portrait-neck gown with an exaggerated hourglass shape, and pleating details fashioned into flowers and a tiered hemline.

Jackie wore her grandmother’s bridal veil at her wedding to Jack Kennedy.

---

“Saving Jackie K” Novel by LDC Fitzgerald.

JFK with Jacqueline Kennedy in a white silk gown and cape for the inaugural ball. Ethel Frankau of Bergdorf Custom Salon designed and made the dress based on sketches and suggestions from Mrs. Kennedy.

---

Jacqueline Kennedy in a gown by Oleg Cassini en route to an inaugural concert in 1961.

---

Jackie wearing a pink and white straw lace dress designed by Oleg Cassini at an Elysee Palace reception during their official visit in Paris, France.

---

The President and First Lady attend the premiere of the play “Mr. President” at the National Theatre in DC.

---

Jackie Kennedy at the Palace of the Maharajah in Udaipur, India during a state visit, wearing a fitted silk apricot dress by designer Oleg Cassini.

---

I’m Just a Patsy! Lee Harvey Oswald In His Own Words

First Lady Jackie Kennedy in blue dress and hat walking with Indian Prime Minister Jawarhalal Nehru in the garden of his residence in New Delhi.

---

President and Mrs. Kennedy with the 1961 White House Christmas tree.

---

Attending a dinner for the president of the Ivory Coast.

---

The pink Chanel suit Jackie wore on the day her husband was assassinated in 1963 became a lasting image of the decade.

Saving Jackie K

• Jackie K Home
  
• Jackie K Fashion
  
• Jackie K White House Tour
  

Marina Oswald

Wife of Lee Harvey Oswald

Was she a russian spy?

New Historical Thriller Saving Jackie K contains many scenes with accused assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. But the novel also takes a look at his young bride, a woman whom he married in Russia and brought to the United States.

Marina Prusakova was born in Molotovsk, Russia -The USSR at the time- in 1941, during the Nazi Invasion of the USSR. When she turned sixteen, she to moved Minsk to live with her uncle, and gained employment as a hospital pharmacy worker.

In March of 1961, nineteen-year-old Marina met twenty-one-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald at a dance hall. Oswald had defected from the US to Russia, and was living and working in Minsk. Six weeks later in April 1961, the two were wed. Little is known about Marina’s motivation to marry Lee; however, he indicated in his Historic Diary that he married Marina to make another girlfriend jealous.

Ten months later, Marina gave birth to daughter, June, in February of 1962. But Lee Oswald had become bored and disillusioned with life in the USSR. Despite the fact that his wife barely spoke English, Oswald returned to the US with his family by the summer of 1962.

The Oswalds moved several times between Texas and Louisiana as Lee tried unsuccessfully to hold down a job. They eventually landed in the Dallas area, where they had a unique living arrangement. While Oswald rented a room in a boarding house in Oak Cliff, Marina lived in Irving with her friend, Mrs. Ruth Paine. Since Mrs. Paine had been studying and speaking Russian for several years, the situation benefited Marina, who spoke little English.

In October of 1963, Oswald eventually gained employment at the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza, and Marina gave birth to a second daughter, Rachel.

I’m Just a Patsy! Lee Harvey Oswald In His Own Words

Marina was with Mrs. Paine on November 22, 1963 when they heard the news that the president had been assassinated. In an interview some time later, Marina described her reaction to the news: She groaned and bit her lip before admitting in halting English, “Ruth Paine told me that somebody from Lee work, from the School Book Depository shot, mm, uh, president, and you know, my heart go down because I think . . . because maybe this was Lee.”

According to Mrs. Paine, Marina also remarked on the tragedy for the Kennedy family, “What a terrible thing this is for Mrs. Kennedy and for the two children. Now the two children will have to grow up without the father.”

Two days later, Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered on live television by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. Marina’s children, too, were left to grow up without their father.

Suspects

• Suspects Home
  
• Lee Harvey Oswald
  
• Jack Ruby
  
• Lyndon Johnson
  
• Richard M. Nixon
  
• J. Edgar Hoover
  
• Fidel Catrro
  
• Nikita Khrushchev
  
• The Mafia
  
• The CIA
  
• The FBI
  

Read The Greatest Speeches John F. Kennedy – eBook

Participants

• JD Tippit
  
• Ruth Paine
  
• Marina Oswald