JFK: Breaking the Silence

by Bill Sloan

President Kennedy's assassination has become the number-one murder mystery of the century - a mystery that continues to haunt the national consciousness and fuel an unrelenting search for answers thirty years after the crime. Now, for the first time in print, here are twelve stories that offer new evidence and shed more light on the theories that the president was the victim of a conspiracy - which most Americans believe - not simply of Oswald's malice, as the authorities would have us think. Bill Sloan, award-winning journalist and author of JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness, uncovers twelve of the best-kept tales from an assortment of individuals - ranging from average citizens to law enforcement officials - who were "overlooked" by the Warren Commission. Numerous accounts and conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination have been widely published in the past, but nothing like these compelling, and often harrowing, tales has been revealed before. These characters' stories help explain what has long been considered unexplainable:. Ed Hoffman saw the man who shot the president - and it wasn't Oswald - but was unable to communicate it to the authorities because he is deaf and mute. Jim Huggins, CIA hit man who received many of his orders directly from Joseph Kennedy, discloses information only he could know. There were four assassins: three he knew personally, two were CIA contract agents. Gary Cornwell, the former counsel for the House Select Committee who saw the classified information still withheld from the public, reveals how the FBI turned the investigation into "a joke, a farce, and a national disgrace." Ubiquitous conspiracy theories have made it difficult to separate the truth about JFK's assassination from the speculation. Now, finally, here are the first-hand accounts of eyewitnesses and other insiders who tell what they know - and what they've had to endure because of it.

231 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1993

About the author

Bill Sloan is a respected military historian, former newspaper reporter/editor and author of more than a dozen books, including Brotherhood of Heroes: The Ultimate Battle. He lives in Dallas, Texas

Reviews

[Pete daPixie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bill Sloan's 'JFK: Breaking the Silence' has assembled twelve stories relating to the JFK assassination. Most long term readers on this topic will be familiar with many of these subjects i.e. Ed Hoffman, Koethe & Hunter, Jim Tague, Roy Vaughn, Jesse Curry and Gary Cornwell.
However, this collection has also introduced Dr.Joe D. Goldstrich's recollections of his Parkland duties in Trauma Room One. I had not come across this person before as he was never interviewed by Arlen Specter or gave testimony to the Warren Commission.
Perhaps the three chapters that stand apart from the others relate to D.P.D. Officer Billy Fowler, Secret Service agent John Norris' Kremlin Connection to the assassination and Hugh Huggins' association with Bobby Kennedy. Of these three, John Norris' story is the one I would reject. Norris does not touch on the assassination plots of early November '63 in Chicago or the other suspicious activities in Tampa, Miami and San Antonio which all point to a domestic agenda rather than anything Soviet....or Mafia for that matter.
I quite enjoyed reading Sloan's work here, as I did with his 'JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness'. I do relate to his overall convictions regarding the JFK case as well.
I inherited this book from the collection of researcher and fellow Dealey Plaza U.K. member Ian Griggs, who sadly passed away last year. It is signed by the author who wrote, "To Ian Griggs from one researcher to another-in hopes that someday the whole truth will be told!" 11/20/93.