An entertaining and important book

From the foreword by Wes Pruden

No one ever wanted to find the conspirators in the assassination of John F. Kennedy more than Hugh Aynesworth. No one ever searched with more diligence, more determination,or with more dogged dedication to expose the plot and identify the plotters.

But Hugh, like every good reporter, learned early to follow the facts. The good reporter loves the surprise of finding where the facts lead, if not to a conspiracy to something more interesting and more unexpected, to a tangled story of unlikely men and women caught up in malice, misfeasance, and murder.

No one knows more about malice and murder than Hugh, who has stalked politicians, movie stars, wayward preachers and priests gone bad, mad men, crazed widows and serial killers, for more than half a century. No one knows as much about this particular tale of malice and murder than Hugh, who through the coincidences of a day fraught with coincidence and happenstance, was the only person in Dallas present at the assassination of Kennedy, the scene immediately following the slaying of Officer J. D. Tippit, the capture of Lee Harvey Oswald, and the murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby.

But was it coincidence? Or was it skill? Journalists will tell you that good reporters are taught but great reporters are born, that instinct is what gives great reporters the ability to sense where the story goes next, the talent for being in the right place at the right time when "news happens."