On the Trail of the JFK Assassins: A Revealing Look at America's Most Infamous Unsolved Crime (Hardcover)

by Dick Russell (Author)
Key Phrases: casket team, brain exam, archives today, Warren Commission, New Orleans, Lee Harvey Oswald (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review
*“No praise can be too high for Russell’s mastery.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review) )

Product Description
"No praise can be too high for Russell's mastery."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

A bestselling author and a leading expert on the JFK assassination, Dick Russell (The Man Who Knew Too Much) here compiles a fascinating selection of his latest research into the assassination of our thirty-fifth president. These pieces cover every aspect of the JFK assassination, from the shots, to the subsequent investigation, to the Warren Report. Russell's research analyzes newly declassified information and continues to build upon his painstakingly detailed investigations. His unrivalled scholarship has created one of the most comprehensive and authoritative examinations of the assassination to date. Russell has come closer than ever to solving the ultimate question: Who killed JFK?

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing (November 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1602393222
• ISBN-13: 978-1602393226
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #85,081 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

  Popular in this category: (What's this?)

  #74 in

  Books > History > United States > 20th Century > 1960s

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BUY IT -- READ IT -- KEEP IT!, November 15, 2008

By	David R. Wayne "Author/Researcher/Historian" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

From a leading expert on the JFK assassination, we actually have new and important information that is highly relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This book is a collection of crucial material covering many aspects of the murder of JFK. It will make tired old researchers perk up and become alert and interested again; and newcomers to this issue enthralled by its fascinating historical implications.

In addition (as if the assassination of our 35th President were insufficient ground to cover), Dick Russell also unearths remarkable new Intel on the mind-control programs of U.S. Intelligence (it's not just the CIA). That sheds new light on the "Manchurian Candidate" aspects of Intelligence-sanctioned assassinations, which also splashes new light on the issues surrounding Sirhan Bishara Sirhan and Lee Harvey Oswald. Russell tackles a very thorny issue and uncovers what become revelations spoken by those who were there and who know of what they speak, in much the same process as the riveting accounts of professional assassin Colonel Bill Bishop in "The Man Who Knew Too Much." If you don't know who Colonel Bishop was, you will also love reading that book. But get this one first. So if you think Sirhan was probably yet another "lone nut" and Oswald may actually have been able to do what they said he did and "mind-control" is only a theory -- well -- do us all a favor: please read this book!!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Professional writers engage the reader and Mr. Russell is a pro, December 22, 2008

By	Edmond Gunny - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is a collection of essays written by Russell concerning the JFK assassination. Just as there has been an evolution of facts concerning the event, the reader also realizes an evolution in the maturity of Russell's writing abilities and probably the intensity of his interest in the assassination. Russell's writing changes quickly and soon the reader cannot quit at the end of two, three or six chapters. I was reading more and sleeping less. There are five or six "must read" Kennedy assassination books (Russell has written one of them). This is a book which follows closely behind them and may well affect the reader more than the "required reading."

20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Walk on the Dark Side, November 7, 2008

By	Patrick Speer "researcher" (LA CA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is both much better written than most assassination books, and more credible. Russell writes almost exclusively about what he knows or has been told by primary sources. He reports much more than he speculates.

As a consequence, I'm not sure if people looking for a smoking gun or proof-positive there was a conspiracy will be satisfied by Russell's reporting. Still, anyone reading the book should come out amazed at the number of strange characters and weird leads. The book would make a great mini-series, IMO.

Although I've never subscribed to the "single-assassin theorists are all cognitively-challenged" argument, I will venture that anyone reading this book and still feeling absolutely sure Oswald acted alone is lacking curiosity, and lacking understanding of their own lack of understanding.

As per the bard, speaking through Hamlet

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

Dick Russell has showed us some of those things.