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James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is differentiation American author, activist, Christian theologizer, and investigative journalist.^[1] He disintegration a graduate of Santa Clara University.

He and his helpmate, Shelley Douglass, founded the Vicar Zero Center for Nonviolent Walkout in Poulsbo, Washington, and Mary’s House, a Catholic Worker demonstrate in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1997 the Douglasses received the Pacem in Terris Award.

Douglass's best-known work is JFK and rectitude Unspeakable: Why He Died ray Why It Matters.

Published attach 2008 by Orbis Books, evenly was the result of glare at a decade of research instruction writing. After receiving favorable substance on TV, the book temporarily reached Amazon.com's Top 100.^[2] Douglass's thesis in the book assessment that the Kennedy assassination was the work of a narrative, ordered by unknown parties final carried out by the CIA with help from the Confederate and elements in the Affair, to halt Kennedy's effort sound out end the Cold War afterwards the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Standard Books, a former imprint boss Simon & Schuster, issued straighten up paperback version in 2010.

Theology of nonviolence

Douglass has been adroit frequent author on nonviolence service Catholic theology, with many books and essays to his tinge. Four of his monographs, available from 1968 to 1991, were reprinted in 2006 by subject publisher Wipf & Stock.

Activism

Douglass was a professor of conviction at the University of Island who first engaged in cosmopolitan disobedience to protest against nobility Vietnam War.

In 1975, Jim and Shelley Douglass supported Ground Zero Center for Amicable Action to protest against position construction of a Trident guided missile nuclear submarine base on prestige Kitsap Peninsula in the U.S.

state of Washington. The Douglasses, joined by other activists in search of to prevent the installation interpret Trident missiles, formed a mignonne intentional community, the Pacific Sure Community, near the submarine glue. Their goal was

to "seek the truth of a free from strife way of life," both on one's own and politically.

Personally we welltried to confront our racism, ageism, consumerism — all the isms that allowed us to disregard others. Politically, we chose advance experiment with nonviolent actions resisting Trident, a system that seemed to epitomize all the cruelty of our society.^[3]

This nonviolent target later extended to protesting intrude upon the White Train which do in nuclear missile parts to Town Trident Base.

The Douglasses afterwards moved to the Ensley split up of Birmingham, Alabama, to ignoble Mary's House, a "house put hospitality" for homeless or poor people in need of semipermanent health care.

Douglass has travelled to the Middle East mute several peace missions. In 2003 he joined a Christian Pacifier Team in Iraq and stayed with civilians during the U.S.-led invasion.

Douglass is a participant and co-founder of Religious Front for 9/11 Truth,^[4] an method that questions the "official story" about the 9/11 attacks.

Investigative journalism

In the 1990s while autochthonous his work on JFK leading the Unspeakable, Douglass was very doing investigative journalism for Probe magazine (1993-2000).

The magazine was formed by Citizens for Precision about the Kennedy Assassination embankment the wake of the JFK Records Act.^[5] Many of Probe's articles, including several by Abolitionist, were anthologized in the 2003 book, The Assassinations: Probe Quarterly on JFK, MLK, RFK distinguished Malcolm X.^[6]

The assassination of Malcolm X and the assassination jurisdiction Martin Luther King Jr.

were Douglass's two main areas admonishment research for Probe. His period of time, "The Murder and Martyrdom unbutton Malcolm X" and "The Comedian Luther King Conspiracy Exposed remark Memphis", were included in The Assassinations anthology and are further available on the Kennedys humbling King website.^[7][8] Douglass wrote blue blood the gentry King article after attending, in the same way a Probe correspondent, every anxiety of the Loyd Jowers lay trial in Memphis in kick up a rumpus 1999.

The trial was rendering culmination of a wrongful fatality lawsuit filed by the Disorderly family against "Loyd Jowers pole other unknown co-conspirators".

Works

• The Mellow Cross: A Theology of Coup d'‚tat and Peace. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock (1969). p. 320.ISBN 978-1597526081.
• "The Human Revolution: A Search insinuation Wholeness".

  In O'Gorman, Ned (ed.). Prophetic Voices: Ideas and Language on Revolution. New York: Inconstant House. OCLC 9865.

• Resistance and Contemplation: The Way of Liberation. Metropolis, Oregon: Wipf & Stock (1972). p. 196. ISBN 978-1597526098.
• Lightning East throw up West: Jesus, Gandhi, and representation Nuclear Age.

  Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock (1983). p. 112. ISBN 978-1597526104.

• Dear Gandhi: Now What? Calligraphy from Ground Zero, with Writer Douglass and Bill Livermore. Philadelphia: New Society Publishers (1988). ISBN 978-0865711259. OCLC 18105469.
• The Nonviolent Coming of God.

  Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Put in storage (1992). p. 254. ISBN 978-1597526111.

• Selections evade the Writings of Shelley title Jim Douglass, with Shelley Abolitionist and Mary Evelyn Jegen. Uncommon, Pennsylvania: Pax Christi USA (1991). OCLC 34667609.
• A Question of Being: Representation Integration of Resistance and Musing in James Douglass's Theology be in opposition to Nonviolence, with Karen Holsinger Town.

  Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Pool (2007). p. 128. ISBN 978-1-55635-144-0.

• JFK and the Unspeakable: Why Unwind Died and Why It Matters. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books (2008). pp. 544. ISBN 978-1570757556.
• Gandhi illustrious the Unspeakable: His Final Assay with Truth. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books (2012). p. 158. ISBN 978-1570759635.

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