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Retired criminologist and author James Wells unveils his investigative memoir revealing the truth about his father’s still classified--and CIA-covered up--death in Vietnam almost six decades ago.
Twenty-six years after the CIA Air America plane his father is a passenger in is reportedly brought down by hostile fire in South Vietnam, his youngest son, James, discovers hundreds of letters his father, Major Jack J. Wells, wrote his mother, Betty. These letters, which span two wars and cover most of his father's adult life, including a twenty-one-year career in the U.S. Army and State Department, reveal that James' father was a whistleblower obsessed with the truth.
James B. Wells (PhD, MFA) is a retired Criminology and Criminal Justice Professor at Eastern Kentucky University's College of Justice, Safety, and Military Science. He has authored/co-authored sixty-five books, chapters, articles, and essays. As a result of learning his father's death in Vietnam is still classified, Dr. Wells has been on a quest to discover the truth, find peace for himself and his family, and write about it. Recent essays appear or are forthcoming in Collateral Journal, About Place Journal, Wild Roof Journal, Military Experience and the Arts, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Shift, Proud to be: Writings by American Warriors, Trajectory Journal, and From Pen to Page III: More Writings from the Bluegrass Writers Coalition.
Links to information about him can be found at https://jamesbwells.com.
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