Anthony Summers

Anthony Bruce Summers (3 December, 1942) is an author, producer, and journalist in the United Kingdom. Educated in English at Oxford University, he worked for Granada TV’s “World in Action” program and later as a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Summers has written about historical figures including Nicholas II, John F. Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover and Richard Nixon: "The File on the Tsar" (1976), "The Kennedy Conspiracy" (1980), ' (1985), "Honeytrap" (1988), "The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover" (1993), "Not in Your Lifetime" (1998), ' (2000) and "" (2005).

He produced documentary specials on the culture of Vietnam, the Palestinians, drug trafficking, the fate of Russia’s last imperial family. Writing about the assassination of John F. Kennedy he rejected the findings of the Warren Commission and claiming that Kennedy was killed by a right-wing conspiracy that could have included Johnny Roselli, Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, David Ferrie, Gerry Patrick Hemming, Guy Bannister, Sam Giancana and E. Howard Hunt.

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* [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsummers.htm Anthony Summers] at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
* [http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=47123 Anthony Summers] at www.randomhouse.com