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Broken Silence

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This book has the wrong title - it should be "The bit I learned about JFK's assassination while chasing bad men, riding horses and eating chicken fried steak". It is faction of the worst sort - full of homely anecdotes and purportedly accurate conversations but hardly a checkable fact or date in the book. The reason given briefly in an epilogue is that the author's notes were all destroyed in a disastrous fire (of which there is no mention in the body of the book). This should not however have rendered him unable to give verifiable dates. Surely he remembers the date of the death of his best friend and mentor - "his rock of stability"? Descriptions of events and people are homely to the extent that they sound as if they come from a Country and Western collection. Men are men, women are pretty and virtuous and animals are trusty companions. Even Jack Ruby: murderer, and Mafia connected small time hood (and corrupter of women) likes small dogs and nearly starts a fight to protect one. You can almost hear the steel guitar soundtrack. Despite the lack of timelines one anachronism is notable: the linking of JFK & Camelot in his lifetime which never happened.

Not for the serious reader of the Kennedy period - file under Westerns.

I very much enjoyed reading Broken Silence. Tex and Don Lasseter have compiled a series of very interesting evidence to conclude that Lee Oswald couldn't have commited the murder of JFK. Tex admits having tought Lee Oswald and Jack Ruby how to use guns, and explains the reasons why these two men weren't responsible for the JFK assassination.

So many people took what they knew to their grave (including Tex) about the case, that the question as to who really did it is still a mystery to this day. The book is a very extensive & accurate testimony from a reliable witness of the events.

It is a captivating book, very well written and researched.

Absolutely ridiculous. Should be listed under fantasy or fiction.

Entertaining for awhile, but when Tex mentions cruising with his girlfriend in 1963 and her singing along with the Beatles "She Loves You" on the radio, this kind of blows it since the Beatles did not hit major airwaves until 1964.

This is a very good book. I still believe what he said was true. The people that don't want us to know the truth will say it is not so. It is worth reading.

In the book "Broken Silence" Ray "Tex" Brown states that the assassination of JFK was a conspiracy masterminded by Lyndon B. Johnson. Ray "Tex" Brown talked about the involvement of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald in the conspiracy. Mr Brown spoke about his secret meetings with Lyndon B. Johnson. He talked about the deal that was made, arranged by LBJ the then New President of The United States, to keep him (Ray "Tex" brown) from talking to the Warren Commission and revealing what he knew. I truly question the accuracy of the information in this book. Why was Ray "Tex" Brown so lucky to stay alive for thirty three years, when as he stated many of his friends were mysteriously dying? Not a recommended book.