First of all, *thank you* for having the inner courage to write this book ("Brothers"), and for helping the American public to get closer to the truth on this subject than perhaps we've ever been before.

As a Kennedy historian and assassination researcher for the past 22 years, this book is a valuable addition to the volumes on my shelf. It's so refreshing to see that you have arrived at the same conclusions in your research as I have, and that you are coming forward to share these conclusions with the public.

An examination of Bobby Kennedy's secret investigation into his brother's murder is a book that is long overdue. It's what so many of us have been waiting more than four decades for.

With or without the cooperation of the CIA, or the release of pertinent documents by the government, Americans still long to know the truth, and thanks to years of research by independent authors and historians, the facts are finally coming to light.

What happened in Dallas on that horrible November day in `63 is no great mystery. Plenty of information and evidence is available now, more than ever before, and your book brings it all together in a way that the layman can easily understand.

Perhaps more importantly, your book may well reignite the people's quest for answers -- and for justice.

As Jim Garrison said is his book, "On the Trail of the Assassins":

"In retrospect, the reason for the assassination is hardly a mystery. It is now abundantly clear ... why the C.I.A.'s covert operations element wanted John Kennedy out of the Oval Office and Lyndon Johnson in it. The new President elevated by rifle fire to control of our foreign policy had been one of the most enthusiastic American cold warriors.... Johnson had originally risen to power on the crest of the fulminating anti-communist crusade which marked American politics after World War II. Shortly after the end of that war, he declaimed that atomic power had become "ours to use, either to Christianize the world or pulverize it" -- a Christian benediction if ever there was one. Johnson's demonstrated enthusiasm for American military intervention abroad ... earned him the sobriquet "the senator from the Pentagon...."

Reinforcing Garrison's conclusion was an unexpected comment by Jack Ruby, who had this to say to reporters while being transferred to his prison cell (Note: you can watch the tape on "You Tube"):

"When I mentioned about Adlai Stevenson, if he was vice-president there would never have been an assassination of our beloved President Kennedy." When asked to explain what he meant, Ruby (Oswald's killer and a probable conspirator in the JFK assassination) replied, "Well the answer is the man in office now [Lyndon Johnson]." Note: Adlai Stevenson advocated a concilatory approach to international affairs in stark contrast to Democratic Party hawks like Lyndon Johnson. Johnson assumed the presidency following JFK's murder and escalated the Vietnam War exponentially. With his comment, it seems that Ruby was hinting at the motive behind the assassination -- that the JFK conspirators could not have achieved their goal of putting a hawk in the White House had Stevenson been Kennedy's vice-president instead of Johnson.

Robert Blakey, staff director and chief counsel (1977-79), U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations, who had originally implicated the Mafia in a JFK conspiracy, now voices his suspicions of the CIA. Here is his statement from 2003:

"I no longer believe that we were able to conduct an appropriate investigation of the [Central Intelligence] Agency and its relationship to Oswald.... I do not believe any denial offered by the Agency on any point. The law has long followed the rule that if a person lies to you on one point, you may reject all of his testimony.... We now know that the Agency withheld from the Warren Commission the CIA-Mafia plots to kill Castro. Had the commission known of the plots, it would have followed a different path in its investigation.... We also now know that the Agency set up a process that could only have been designed to frustrate the ability of the committee in 1976-79 to obtain any information that might adversely affect the Agency. Many have told me that the culture of the Agency is one of prevarication and dissimulation and that you cannot trust it or its people. Period. End of story. I am now in that camp."