Quite an excellently researched book. Mc Laren proves that Oswald did NOT fire the fatal shot and that there was a second gunman, and it was this shooter that fired the fatal shot. This shot was not possible to have been fired by Oswald. It was not the Russians, the mafia, the FBI, the CIA, JFK's driver or someone on the 'grassy knoll'. It was someone more surprising. To find out who, you need to read the book! ( )

WOW.. always been fascinated with everything to do with JFK and particularly his assassination. And always wondered.. there were so many inconsistencies with the investigations and the eye witness reports and total cock-ups by the different authorities and the Warren Commission (the author of this book describes it as the Commission of Omissions).

The books starts off with a deep background check of Less Harvey Oswald, his wife Marina and Jack Ruby. So I am thinking, right he is going for the lone gunman solution.. Lee Harvey Oswald WAS a crazy idiot!

But then he gets into the deeper investigation of the eyewitness reports, including the police officers that were in and around the motorcade that day. He went right through ALL the many volumes of the Warren Commission and wonders why so many of those crucial eyewitnesses weren't even interviewed by the Commission and, when damning evidence was offered, the Commission ignored it and/or dismissed that witness.

He (the author is a career detective) then looked at what the Secret Service guys were doing , both on the day and the day before. Apparently they all went out partying the night before until the wee hours and got very drunk at a night club. SO the day they were supposed to be protecting the President they were all very hungover! O.o. Even though many bystanders saw a man on the 6th floor of the Texas Book Depository WITH A RIFLE.. none of the Secret Service saw or acted. In fact, the only action, after the first shot, was one inexperienced guy in the followup car standing up wth HIS rifle and shooting it! Eyewitnesses testified that he had shot the rifle, thinking he was shooting back at the assassin. .. The bottom line.. did ALL the shots that hit the President come from Lee Harvey Oswald's gun OR did one of those bullets come from the accidental shooting of the Secret Service rifle. The author presents a lot of evidence that the last and fatal bullet was actually from the Secret Service gun. AND he points to a lot of cover up by everyone involved to ensure that this information did not become a front page worldwide news story.

SOOOOOOOOOOO when Lee Harvey Oswald kept insisting he was a "Patsy".. it seems he might have been right!!! ( )