JFK: Breaking the SilencePresident Kennedy's assassination has become the number-one murder mystery of the century - a mystery that continues to haunt the national consciousness and fuel an unrelenting search for answers thirty years after the crime. Now, for the first time in print, here are twelve stories that offer new evidence and shed more light on the theories that the president was the victim of a conspiracy - which most Americans believe - not simply of Oswald's malice, as the authorities would have us think. Bill Sloan, award-winning journalist and author of JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness, uncovers twelve of the best-kept tales from an assortment of individuals - ranging from average citizens to law enforcement officials - who were "overlooked" by the Warren Commission. Numerous accounts and conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination have been widely published in the past, but nothing like these compelling, and often harrowing, tales has been revealed before. These characters' stories help explain what has long been considered unexplainable: . Ed Hoffman saw the man who shot the president - and it wasn't Oswald - but was unable to communicate it to the authorities because he is deaf and mute. Jim Huggins, CIA hit man who received many of his orders directly from Joseph Kennedy, discloses information only he could know. There were four assassins: three he knew personally, two were CIA contract agents. Gary Cornwell, the former counsel for the House Select Committee who saw the classified information still withheld from the public, reveals how the FBI turned the investigation into "a joke, a farce, and a national disgrace". Ubiquitous conspiracy theories have made it difficult to separate thetruth about JFK's assassination from the speculation. Now, finally, here are the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses and other insiders who tell what they know - and what they've had to endure because of it. |
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