Books by Joan Mellen

Jim Garrison: His Life and Times, The Early Years, is a biographyof the former District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisianafrom his 1922 birth in Iowa and service in World War II - he wasamong those assigned to Dachau Concentration Camp the day afterits liberation - to his years confronting the corrupt politics ofLouisiana.In 1997, Joan Mellen started to work on the story of former OrleansParish District Attorney Jim Garrison's life. That biography turnedinto the story of Garrison's investigation of the assassination ofPresident John Kennedy, and then into a new investigation of theassassination itself in her book, "A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison,JFK's Assassination, and the Case That Should Have ChangedHistory," published in 2005.

Working with thousands of previously unreleased documents and drawing on more than one thousand interviews, with many witnesses speaking out for the first time, Joan Mellen revisits the investigation of New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison, the only public official to have indicted, in 1969, a suspect in President John F. Kennedy's murder.