"History is not history when it's fabricated."
If you are anything like me, you probably don't need 63 reasons to believe there was a conspiracy to assassinate JFK (as the book's subtitle suggests, verbatim). But Jesse Ventura is gonna give 'em to ya anyway. Co-authored with Dick Russell and David Wayne, They Killed Our President outlines the events leading up to and in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. I did not belong to that era; it was 21 years before my time. My dad, however, still recalls exactly where he was and what he was doing the moment he heard over the news that JFK had been shot. That my 9/11. It's something that stays with you, haunts you. Ventura reminds readers of why JFK's assassination haunts our nation until this day. Reason after reason, Ventura details why Lee Harvey Oswald was not the "lone nut" he was made out to be. Oswald remains a baffling figure who worked as a U.S. intelligence operative and, from all accounts, did not actually have a motive for murdering the President or the ill-fated Officer Tippit, who was gunned down not long after President Kennedy's motorcade came under attack. A motorcade which, by all accounts, was a pretty wide-open, slow-moving target with minimized security detail. Throughout the book, Ventura establishes the evidence, illustrates Oswald's connection to his killer Jack Ruby, the cover-up of evidence that took place (including the silencing of multiple witnesses), the witnesses themselves, and who stood to gain something from Kennedy's death. All of the evidence that Ventura so thoroughly highlights is further compounded by the recent releases of previously-classified documents regarding the assassination (which can be accessed here). One of the documents released in August of 2017 shows that, in 1956, Earle Cabell (who was the mayor of Dallas in 1963) was listed as a CIA asset. Another document, released December 15, 2017, revealed that New Orleans bar owner Orest Pena identified Oswald as being his fellow intelligence operative. All of these things make even more sense after reading Ventura's book, yet the assassination itself will always be senseless. Ventura hammers home his point in the conclusion of the book, where he reminds us that we are still being played. Kennedy, the "patsy" Oswald, the numerous silenced witnesses... They were getting played in 1963. This book isn't for everyone, but it does not require that you put on a tinfoil hat and start living off-the-grid. It requires compassion for a man (two men if you include Officer Tippit, and three if you include Governor John Connally, who survived his wounds) who was gunned down just so that others could get what they want. Where to find Jesse Ventura online: Amazon Author Page Also, make sure you check this book out on Amazon!
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