Truth Withheld: A Survivor's Story - Why We Will Never Know the Truth about the JFK Assassination [Paperback]

James T. Tague (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Excel Digital Press (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971825475
• ISBN-13: 978-0971825475
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #686,750 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating witness account, July 7, 2004

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Rocco Dormarunno (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Truth Withheld: A Survivor's Story - Why We Will Never Know the Truth about the JFK Assassination (Paperback)

Finally, someone who DOESN'T claim to know who killed President John F. Kennedy, although he was there. He was even hit! James Tague is one of the last surviving witnesses to the horrible events of November 22, 1963, and his book "Truth Withheld: A Survivors Story - Why We Will Never Know the Truth About the JFK Assassination" explains with conviction why the murder will undoubtedly recede into history unsolved.

James Tague's day began innocently enough, until traffic and his curiosity made him park his car beneath the triple underpass in Dealey Plaza to watch Kennedy's motorcade. As JFK's limo approached him, the shots rang out, and Mr. Tague's cheek was hit. From that moment on, Tague's life--and America--changed forever. Mr. Tague describes in vivid detail his interrogations--by the FBI and the Warren Commission, among others. And Mr. Tague conveys his sense that something wasn't right. It's difficult to dismiss his story.

The book leaves one with an eerie feeling, like some insiduous creature lurking in the darkness behind your back. This must have been very difficult for Mr. Tague to relive and recount, and we should be grateful that he did.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reading ***** True Story From a True Witness, December 12, 2003

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R. Bailey "Eden Place" (TEXAS) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Truth Withheld: A Survivor's Story - Why We Will Never Know the Truth about the JFK Assassination (Paperback)

I've enjoyed reading this book and even took a day off just to finish reading it. James Tague was the only person injured outside of the president's limo in the shooting on 11-23-63 and his story is one that will amaze you and will help shed light on what really happened that day in Dallas. Mr. Tague doesn't provide the answer of who was behind the shooting but does show interesting FACTS of a conspiracy. If you are going to read a book on the JFK assassination this is the one I would recommend!!!

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lovecraft In Dealey Plaza, April 8, 2005

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Kevin Killian (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Truth Withheld: A Survivor's Story - Why We Will Never Know the Truth about the JFK Assassination (Paperback)

Tague was a salesman whose car got caught up in the massive traffic james enveloping the Dallas downtown area on the morning of November 22, 1963. Reading his account of that strange, fateful day, we begin to see for the first time how the darkness that surrounds us is due to a combination of factors which collided with a crash. Tague is a likeable narrator and gives you the feeling that he is a reliable witness, though in the back of your head you are always thinking, well he was the top car salesman ion the South, how honest could he really be ha ha? He befriended Harold Weisberg, one of the guys who came to Texas steeped in conspiuracy theory, and Tague's recollections of his late friend are somehow touching and direct in their simplicity. It is plain that Tague cared for his friend and that his 2002 death left him with a hole in his affections. So it wasn't just a collaboration between Kennedy aficionados, it was an abiding friendship.

Tague was injured during the assassination! Not severely, but enough to cause quite a commotion. A bullet came out of the grass and shot into the curb he was standing on, leaning all his weight on the stone that exploded into his face. Good thing he wasn't wearing short pants!

The strange thing is, the Warren Commission was keen to discredit Tague, even though he was one of the more upstanding witnesses to the Kennedy assassination. There's no arguing with people whose minds are made up ahead of time.

NOT THAT Tague is sure about what happened that day. There was no smking gun left at the crime. Oh wait, yes there was! in TRUTH WITHHELD, one of the last people to still be alive to tell his tale finally does so, complete with several interesting photographs which which challenge your eyesight and your "received wisdom." What happened? Who did it? When did suspicion harden into the cold wax of reality's seal? Tague knows the answers to some of these questions, and for the rest, he's refreshingly honest and refuses to pull empty answers out of his ass. I saw Oliver Srone's JFK and thought he went wway too far, impugning the good name of some and glancing right over the obcious points he might have made. Tague takes a middle balance, and his shot through the ambuscades just may be the most accurate of all.

As other reviewers note, there is something creepy about this book, with its hidden menace, as though Lovecraft were present that day in Dealey Plaza.