As November slowly approaches this year, the anniversary of one of America’s darkest moments will be upon us once again as we remember the tragic death of the late John F. Kennedy.  His murder continues to stay with us and to this day it is technically an unsolved murder in that his alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was never convicted in a court of law.  He had been accused of murdering both President Kennedy and Dallas Police Officer J.D. Tippit, and convicted in the court of public opinion through misstatements and so-called evidence that wouldn’t hold up in a court of law.  And as author Gary Fannin points out, for over 50 years, lies, deception and deceit continue to be propagated making the truth of the matter seemingly harder and harder to unravel.

This book is not a smoking gun about the assassination.  Fannin examines the major parts of the story, holding them up to the light so to speak, to be examined thoroughly and in the process sheds light on the many contradictions and shortcomings on the official story.  He does point clearly that he does not believe in any way, that Lee Harvey Oswald murdered anyone on November 22, 1963 or even fired a rifle that day.   Oswald was murdered in cold blood by Jack Ruby before he had a chance to tell his side of the story taking any information he could have offered with him to the grave.   Nevertheless, the U.S. Government stands by the conclusion the Warren Report that Oswald as indeed the long gunman.  But upon closer examination as Fannin shows us, the case against him has serious flaws and there were many suspicious events that took place that were beyond Oswald’s control.

Acting as sort of a public defender of Oswald, Fannin methodically tackles each piece of alleged “evidence” against Oswald and refutes each one by one.  And in the process, Fannin brings to our attention, the many fingerprints on the crime of U.S. Intelligence agencies and he even gives a highly plausible scenario of how the shooting might have been carried out.  Fannin points out that he will probably become and an enemy of the government for the book but published it regardless as he believes the American public is owed more than what we’ve been told all of these years.  The next release date for the remaining records held on the assassination are scheduled to be released in October, 2017.  In those records are thousands of pages of documents on many individuals long suspected by researchers as being complicit in Kennedy’s death.

Anyone who’s read books on this subject will know that they tend to be quite large and the information contained in them can be staggering.  The crime itself  is so complex that just one part of it is enough to fill up a shelf on a bookcase.  Fannin did an excellent job of keeping the book straight to the point and it never loses pace.  The information is exactly the right amount to get the reader to ask questions and do their own research. But at no point, does the book feel as if it’s information overload.  For those just starting to dive into the Kennedy assassination, this is a good place to start. And even for those, who are advanced researchers have read dozens of books on the crime, it’s a welcome addition the ever-growing collection of incredible books on this heinous crime.

ISBN-10: 0692532242
ISBN-13: 978-0692532249