Jim Marrs

Jim Marrs ( born December 5, 1943 in Fort Worth ) is an American author of conspiracy theory books.

Marrs ended 1966, a journalism degree from the University of North Texas with a Bachelor's exam and then worked for several Texas newspapers. Since 1980 he is a freelance writer.

His book Crossfire was one of the sources for Oliver Stone's film JFK - Tatort Dallas, who acquired the rights to it. Herein argues Marrs that behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy not the lone assassin Lee Harvey Oswald had confessed, but a massive conspiracy at, among others, the FBI, the CIA, Cuban exiles, the armed forces of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas Oilmen and the Mafia were involved. The argument Marrs lists 103 deaths of people who had been on one or the other way with the assassination in conjunction. The representative of the lone assassin theory Gerald Posner is the opposite, the number of more than 10,000 people who were affected by the Warren Commission or other committees of inquiry to the Kennedy assassination and survived. The British literary scholar Peter Knight called Marrs ' book in its discourse history to the Kennedy assassination as "a popular-science, sensationalist grab bag of conspiracy research."

He also published books on ufology and pre- astronautics, the "new world order" and to conspiracy to September 11, 2001. Marrs is a member of Scholars for 9/ 11 Truth.

In German-speaking translations of his books will be distributed by the Kopp -Verlag.