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James W. Douglass
James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is an American author, activist, Christian theologian, and investigative journalist. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University. He and his wife, Shelley Douglass, founded the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, and Mary's House, a Catholic Worker house in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1997 the Douglasses received the Pacem in Terris Award.
Douglass's best-known work is JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. Published in 2008 by Orbis Books, it was the result of over a decade of research and writing. After receiving favorable publicity on TV, the book briefly reached Amazon.com's Top 100. Douglass's thesis in the book is that the Kennedy assassination was the work of a conspiracy, ordered by unknown parties and carried out by the CIA with help from the Mafia and elements in the FBI, to halt Kennedy's effort to end the Cold War after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Touchstone Books, a former imprint of Simon & Schuster, issued a paperback version in 2010.
Douglass has been a frequent author on nonviolence and Catholic theology, with many books and essays to his credit. Four of his monographs, published from 1968 to 1991, were reprinted in 2006 by theology publisher Wipf & Stock.
Douglass was a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii who first engaged in civil disobedience to express opposition to the Vietnam War.
In 1975, Jim and Shelley Douglass founded Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action to protest against the construction of a Trident missile nuclear submarine base on the Kitsap Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. The Douglasses, joined by other activists seeking to prevent the installation of Trident missiles, formed a small intentional community, the Pacific Life Community, near the submarine base. Their goal was
to "seek the truth of a nonviolent way of life," both personally and politically. Personally we tried to confront our racism, sexism, consumerism — all the isms that allowed us to violate others. Politically, we chose to experiment with nonviolent actions resisting Trident, a system that seemed to epitomize all the violence of our society.
This nonviolent action was later extended to protest against the White Train that carried nuclear missile parts to Bangor Trident Base.
The Douglasses subsequently moved to the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, to establish Mary's House, a "house of hospitality" for homeless or indigent people in need of long-term health care.
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James W. Douglass
James W. "Jim" Douglass (born 1937) is an American author, activist, Christian theologian, and investigative journalist. He is a graduate of Santa Clara University. He and his wife, Shelley Douglass, founded the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action in Poulsbo, Washington, and Mary's House, a Catholic Worker house in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1997 the Douglasses received the Pacem in Terris Award.
Douglass's best-known work is JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. Published in 2008 by Orbis Books, it was the result of over a decade of research and writing. After receiving favorable publicity on TV, the book briefly reached Amazon.com's Top 100. Douglass's thesis in the book is that the Kennedy assassination was the work of a conspiracy, ordered by unknown parties and carried out by the CIA with help from the Mafia and elements in the FBI, to halt Kennedy's effort to end the Cold War after the Cuban Missile Crisis. Touchstone Books, a former imprint of Simon & Schuster, issued a paperback version in 2010.
Douglass has been a frequent author on nonviolence and Catholic theology, with many books and essays to his credit. Four of his monographs, published from 1968 to 1991, were reprinted in 2006 by theology publisher Wipf & Stock.
Douglass was a professor of religion at the University of Hawaii who first engaged in civil disobedience to express opposition to the Vietnam War.
In 1975, Jim and Shelley Douglass founded Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action to protest against the construction of a Trident missile nuclear submarine base on the Kitsap Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. The Douglasses, joined by other activists seeking to prevent the installation of Trident missiles, formed a small intentional community, the Pacific Life Community, near the submarine base. Their goal was
to "seek the truth of a nonviolent way of life," both personally and politically. Personally we tried to confront our racism, sexism, consumerism — all the isms that allowed us to violate others. Politically, we chose to experiment with nonviolent actions resisting Trident, a system that seemed to epitomize all the violence of our society.
This nonviolent action was later extended to protest against the White Train that carried nuclear missile parts to Bangor Trident Base.
The Douglasses subsequently moved to the Ensley neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, to establish Mary's House, a "house of hospitality" for homeless or indigent people in need of long-term health care.