“It is certainly possible that a renegade element in U.S. intelligence manipulated Oswald—whatever his role on November 22, 1963. That same element may have activated pawns in the anti-Castro movement and the Mafia to murder the President …

“The very suggestion that some of those charged with protecting American security should so betray their trust is clearly abhorrent to moderate citizens. Unfortunately there is nothing inherently implausible in the scenario.”

This disturbing conclusion by an impartial, experienced investigative reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation highlights the most prestigious and carefully researched book yet written on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The author’s personal research uncovered witnesses who had never been questioned by the Warren Commission. He also located and interviewed several people before they testified to the recent House Select Committee on Assassinations. One of these witnesses has recently been the victim of attempted murder.

This book rips aside the rumors, myths, and fear that have surrounded the murder of our President in 1963. It also follows hard on the heels of the verdict of Congress’ Assassinations Committee—a concept long shunned by officialdom—that hard scientific evidence indicates President Kennedy was the victim of a conspiracy, and the news that the Justice Department is now considering reopening the case.

Anthony Summers shows that Lee Harvey Oswald, long convicted in the public mind as the lone assassin, may have been the tool of U.S. intelligence for most of his adult life. And the author exhaustively explores questions that no official inquiry has yet answered. For example:

Besides exploring these questions, the author analyzes the most alarming testimony of all: that a U.S. intelligence case officer met with Oswald only weeks before the assassination and tried to fabricate evidence linking Oswald with Communist Cuban diplomats. Furthermore, the author shows that there were clear links between Oswald and shadowy figures known to have been involved with both intelligence and organized crime. According to persuasive witnesses, efforts were afoot between members of the intelligence community and anti-Castro militants to provoke a new crisis between the U.S. and Russia over Cuba—at the very time President Kennedy had given the go-ahead for secret talks with Fidel Castro to end the conflict in the Caribbean.

Conspiracy is meticulously documented , powerful and authoritative. It explains why the Kennedy assassination may now be officially reopened. If it is not reopened, readers of this book may well ask why.

If a critic of the Warren Commission tells you that Oswald’s gun was no good or that President Kennedy’s head would never have fallen toward the gun or that both Lincoln and Kennedy were shot from the wrong direction, you are helpless. You have no way to know what the truth really is.

When Dr, John K Lattimer, of the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, heard the long list of claims of that sort, he thought that someone with ballistic capabilities and a good laboratory could easily look into these questions and straighten them out one way or the other. It gradually dawned on him that he had Army experience with wounds from the same kind of bullet as well as access to firing facilities and to a superb laboratory complex with which to analyze the findings. Thus the many theories about the Kennedy and Lincoln assassinations, which are so startlingly similar, could be subjected to the penetrating analysis of unhurried experimental medical and ballistic research at a modern medical center.

In a series of unique experiments, Dr. Lattimer packed skulls with simulated brains and fired far more rounds of Oswald-type ammunition into Oswald-type mock-ups than anyone else, including Oswald. He fired hundreds of rounds into necks and bodies constructed of fresh pork to simulate human skin over human bones. Using the expertise gained as a military surgeon and as director of a vast medical research establishment, he studied X-rays, photographs, and Kennedy’s restricted autopsy materials (he was the first nongovernment-sponsored witness to see them), as well as those of Booth, Oswald, and Ruby. He visited with the doctors who dealt with President Kennedy. He witnessed dozens of replays of the famed Zapruder film of the Kennedy shooting, sat in the window of the Texas School Book Depository that Oswald had occupied, and examined research materials from many sources, some never seen before.

Dr. Lattimer presents the evidence proving Oswald killed the President, whether or not a second gunman contributed a bullet, why Governor Connally had to have been hit by the bullet that went through Kennedy, why the exit wound in the President’s neck was so small, why Kennedy’s elbows flew up as if he was reaching for his throat (although he was not), why Mrs, Kennedy was out on the trunk of the car, whether or not the wounded President could have lived, and dozens of other heretofore unsolved mysteries.

In a like manner, Dr. Lattimer probes into the history of John Wilkes Booth and his co-conspirators, and answers these and other questions: Did the fatal bullet come from the wrong direction? Who actually shot Booth, or did he commit suicide? What kind of gun was used? What saved Secretary of State Seward from an assassin’s knife? What document was withheld from the investigating commission? What did they find when they disinterred Booth a second time?

In a startling and fascinating summary to this amazing book, Dr. Lattimer presents the similarities and associations between the two assassinations, how the two presidents and their families, the two murderers, even the two assassins’ assassins were almost interchangeable.

Step by step, in text and pictures, Dr. Lattimer re-creates the two murders. Fact by fact and document by document, he demolishes or confirms the many suspicions you have read about. Unlike others who have written of these cases, he had no preconceived theories to uphold, no causes to promote. Facts here take on new clarity and new meaning as they unfold under the cool, reasoned investigation of medical science.

“A thought-provoking reevaluation of Oswald…a penetrating analysis.” —U.S. Senator Alfonse D’Amato

A leading trial lawyer, James Duffy proves “Everything you think you know about Oswald may be untrue.”

Either way, to solve this murder mystery one must first unravel the mystery of Oswald. Using official U.S. Government documents and reports, attorney Duffy pieces together an unbelievable-yet-true scenario that differs—substantially from what we have been led to believe.

Here is the chilling story of one of history’s most bewildering characters, and the evidence seemingly linking him to remarkably diverse groups including: intelligence agents and underworld bosses, communists and anti-communists, patriots and spies, big shots and bimbos—a web of bizarre, indeed shocking, activities ranging from infiltration and subversion to assassination plots against leaders of several countries.

Attorney Duffy dramatically recounts the fascinating and frightening details of the very strange circumstances surrounding Oswald’s life. Avoiding speculative theories, he sticks to the government’s “evidence”—analyzing the puzzling inconsistencies, and allowing you to draw your own conclusions about: