defense, Robert S. McNamara, appointed him to his last assignment as the first director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, with the responsibility for controlling Department of Defense (DoD) intelligence resources assigned to DIA and reviewing the intelligence functions assigned the military departments in satisfying the intelligence requirements of the DoD. He retired September 15, 1969. With his last residence being in Fairfax County, Virginia, on January 20, 1991, Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Joseph Francis Carroll died due to complications related to Alzheimer's disease, from which he suffered for a decade. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Relations with sons The Vietnam War introduced serious tensions into the general's family life. His son Dennis fled to India to escape service. Nevertheless, General Carroll donned his uniform to represent Dennis, after he returned from India, before the Selective Service board and succeeded in getting his son recognized as a conscientious objector. There were also serious disagreements with his son James, who was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood in 1969. Father and son first clashed over the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; the general suspected several of King's aides were Communists, whereas James admired King as a champion of the poor. James' anti-war activity was an embarrassment to his father. After leaving the priesthood, James became a journalist and author. Several of his novels, including Prince of Peace (1984) and Memorial Bridge (1991), bear traces of the general's fraught relations with his sons, albeit in fictionalized form. James Carroll's memoir, An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us, winner of the National Book Award in 1996, addressed his differences with his father directly. Dates of rank Major awards and decorations Carroll is the recipient of the following: Controversy First Amendment Rights help produce some of the most curious 'non-fiction' literature. One of the most dismissed projects within the world's 11/22 community – even among those who believe in a conspiracy – on the assassination of the 35th U.S. president, John F. Kennedy was entitled 'Nomenclature On An Assassination Cabal' which was written in 1970 by a Texan who would not use his own name. Quite widely circulated within that 11/22 community, its author 'William Torbitt', used the name 'Joseph Francis Carroll' on eight occasions in the project, thereby implicating him as being in command of the Defense Intelligence Agency, while his underlings within