Jeffrey K. Smith Books

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in broad daylight, as his mortorcade made its way through downtown Dallas. Perched in a sniper's test on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository, Lee Harvey Oswald, a misanthropic, self-proclaimed Marxist, altered the course of history. Two days later, a mentally unbalanced strip club owner, Jack Ruby avenged the death of President Kennedy, when he Oswald to death in the basement of the Dallas Police station. In one of the most traumatic weekends in American history, the lives of four men converged in tragic fashion. Emerging from political obscurity, Lyndon Johnson ascended to the presidency after Kennedy was murdered. Two obscure figures, Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, became household names. The incredible sequence of events in the fall of 1963, shattered the dreams of generation. With the fast paced action of a suspenseful novel, "Rendezvous in Dallas" brings history alive, proving that fact is often more compelling than fiction.

This book features several pieces of authentic 'second' Indochina war era propaganda literature, which range from a single wallet-sized card or leaflet to a multi-paged manifesto. In each case the piece is studied either as a whole or line-by-line to see its impact, manufacture and truth or lies within the piece. In effect, the war is examined through these, and other, elements of propaganda literature. These are pieces I collected either while in Vietnam in 1969 or at my next station in Hawaii, 1969-1970.

Sam Mitchell, a semi-retired forensic psychiatrist is back again. Still nursing emotional and physical wounds from having been shot by a sociopathic fellow psychiatrist, he is having difficulty establishing normalcy in his life. To compound the current problems, it appears that his romantic relationship with Cathy Stewart is unraveling, after she moves to California. At the same time, his newfound friend, Jim Hodges, an investigator with the Martindale County Sheriff s Department, asks Sam to assist him with creating a psychological profile of an unknown serial killer, who is terrorizing the employees of nearby Astra Hospital. As the two men investigate the case, Sam unexpectedly finds new romance. At the same time, he unwillingly becomes involved in the killer s web.