Skyhorse

November

James DiEugenio

RECLAIMING PARKLAND
Tom Hanks, Vincent Bugliosi, and the JFK Assassination in the New Hollywood

A hard-hitting, one-of-a-kind look at how Hollywood and the mainstream media are getting the Kennedy assassination all wrong!

eclaiming Parkland details the failed attempt of Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzmancofounder of the production company Playtoneto make Vincent Bugliosis mammoth book about the Kennedy assassination, Reclaiming History, into a miniseries. It exposes the questionable origins of Reclaiming History in a dubious mock trial for cable television, in which Bugliosi played the role of an attorney prosecuting Lee Harvey Oswald for murder, and how this formed the basis for the epic tome. Author James DiEugenio details the myriad problems with Bugliosis book, and explores the cooperation of the mainstream press in concealing these many faults during the publicity campaign for the book and how this lack of scrutiny led Hanks and Goetzman to purchase the film rights. DiEugenio then shows how the film eventually adapted from that book, entitled Parkland, does not even resemble Reclaiming History, though the script for that film displays the same imbalance that Reclaiming History does. Reclaiming Parkland also includes extended looks at the littleknown aspects of the lives and careers of Bugliosi, Hanks, and Goetzmanincluding Bugliosis three attempts at political office and a review of the Tate-LaBianca murders in the light of todays knowledge of that case. DiEugenio also looks at the connections between Washington and Hollywood, as well as the CIA influence in the film colony today. Reclaiming Parkland is a truly unique book that delves into the Kennedy assassination, the New Hollywood, and the political influence on how films are made today. James DiEugenio is cofounder of two organizations, the Citizens for Truth about the Kennedy Assassination and the Coalition on Political Assassinations. He was coeditor of The Assassinations, a book on the deaths of JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Kennedy, and Malcolm X, and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case. He lives near Long Beach, California.

$26.95 hardcover (Can. $29.95) World (E) CQ 30 ISBN 978-1-62636-533-9 6 x 9 496 pages History NOVEMBER