This book has the wrong title - it should be "The bit I learned about JFK's assassination while chasing bad men, riding horses and eating chicken fried steak". It is faction of the worst sort - full of homely anecdotes and purportedly accurate conversations but hardly a checkable fact or date in the book. The reason given briefly in an epilogue is that the author's notes were all destroyed in a disastrous fire (of which there is no mention in the body of the book). This should not however have rendered him unable to give verifiable dates. Surely he remembers the date of the death of his best friend and mentor - "his rock of stability"? Descriptions of events and people are homely to the extent that they sound as if they come from a Country and Western collection. Men are men, women are pretty and virtuous and animals are trusty companions. Even Jack Ruby: murderer, and Mafia connected small time hood (and corrupter of women) likes small dogs and nearly starts a fight to protect one. You can almost hear the steel guitar soundtrack. Despite the lack of timelines one anachronism is notable: the linking of JFK & Camelot in his lifetime which never happened.

Not for the serious reader of the Kennedy period - file under Westerns.

In the book "Broken Silence" Ray "Tex" Brown states that the assassination of JFK was a conspiracy masterminded by Lyndon B. Johnson. Ray "Tex" Brown talked about the involvement of Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald in the conspiracy. Mr Brown spoke about his secret meetings with Lyndon B. Johnson. He talked about the deal that was made, arranged by LBJ the then New President of The United States, to keep him (Ray "Tex" brown) from talking to the Warren Commission and revealing what he knew. I truly question the accuracy of the information in this book. Why was Ray "Tex" Brown so lucky to stay alive for thirty three years, when as he stated many of his friends were mysteriously dying? Not a recommended book.

This is a very good book. I still believe what he said was true. The people that don't want us to know the truth will say it is not so. It is worth reading.

I would to know what ver happen to Ray and Jane LaFontaine. Seem like Geral Posner is done very well for himself as author of many fine nonfiction but what ever happen to Ray and Jane they seem to just vanish. In Dallas last November I ask many people "what tehy think of LaFontaine theory" and they laufgh at me.

and who are you calling a 34 star loony???

you sound liker disonfo

Even by the standards of Weird Reviews, the "reviews" that this book has provoked below are so bizarre as to be suspicious in themselves -- is someone intent on creating the appearance that only a 32nd Degree Loony would bother with this book? Are the "reviews," in fact, part of some nefarious conspiracy??? Does it take a 33rd Degree Loony such as myself to recognize all this? In any event, the book is undeniably tedious and self-congratulatory, and I admittedly skimmed entire sections as the authors launched into ever-more-convoluted theorizing about Oswald's role in the assassination. I assume they did this because it's very difficult to publish A 500-Page Book when all you really have are A Couple of Pieces of New Information that could be summarized in three pages. The only things you really need to know, which I will now tell you, are that (1) the authors were responsible for bringing to light Dallas Police Department arrest records showing that the "three tramps" were, in fact, three tramps and not E. Howard Hunt and two aliens from Zeta Reticuli, and (2) the authors were also responsible for bringing to light the facts that in addition to the three tramps another derelict was arrested and placed in the same holding cell area as Oswald on 11-22-63, that he overheard Oswald commenting on a pre-assassination meeting about gun-running with Jack Ruby and another character (who was being brought through the holding area as Oswald made his comments), that he gave this information to police in Memphis in 1964, that he was interviewed by the FBI at that time but his story was discounted because -- mysteriously -- there was no record of his arrest in Dallas, that in 1992 the authors discovered his arrest records in Dallas and documented from a phone log that he was in the same cell block area as Oswald, and that he is still alive (or was in 1996). Anyway, that's about it for useful information, and frankly I wish the authors had fleshed out the facts in item #2 a lot more thoroughly instead of launching off in other directions. The part about "Oswald talking" hardly seems to me to be the sort of stuff of which hoaxes are made -- the gun-running is clearly established, what the derelict overhead Oswald say doesn't amount to much apart from the reference to Jack Ruby, the fact that the derelict told his story in Memphis in 1964 is beyond dispute, and the whole thing would've gone unnoticed if the authors hadn't discovered the derelict's arrest records nearly 30 years later and managed to locate him. So the authors' evidence seems to fit nicely in the overall scenario that Oswald didn't act alone, even if you reject 95% of everything else they have to say. This book is understandably unpopular with assassination researchers who have made their livings out of theories that the Three Tramps Who Weren't Really Tramps are the key to it all, but it does seem to me that the authors are responsible for some genuinely new and important evidence. There are some other interesting tidbits as well, and overall my assessment is that this book is worth your time so long as you're prepared for it to be six or eight times as long as it needs to be, very confusing at times and self-congratulatory to the point of being irritating. The authors also fail to make any connection between the assassination of JFK and the Roswell UFO crash, which was a big disappointment to those of us on the 33rd level of looniness. What's the frequency, Kenneth?