But, the cover-up was not done by the same people responsible for the actual killing of the President. This is where it gets complicated. There are two separate issues at work here. The assassination itself and the cover-up. The actual assassination was performed by professionals, hired by the Mob, in general, Carlos Marcello of New Orleans, in particular. The reason was personal, a vendetta of sorts, absolute hatred for the President and his brother, especially the latter, Bobby Kennedy.

According to Hugh McDonald (Appointment in Dallas) the assassination was the result of the work of the world's top assassin at the time, according to Scotland Yard. McDonald referred to the ex-KGB, Bulgarian born hit man as Saul, which was, of course, simply his code name. Why is this version so believable in my mind? McDonald was a top cop, the former head of the Los Angeles County Detectives, and he got his information from two very reliable sources, a top CIA official (Herman Kimsey) and the shooter himself, who McDonald tracked down after a seven year search which cost the former OSS Commando nearly fifty thousand dollars of his own money. Saul agreed to meet with him after McDonald promised not to reveal his actual identity (he told Saul he was simply after the truth, nothing more).

To this day, the CIA goes out of its way to cover-up the truth, perhaps because Saul was a mercenary, a hired gun whose services go to the highest bidder. The CIA was one of those organizations who had used Saul before, at the Bay of Pigs. What would happen if the American people, at the time, were informed that the assassination of their beloved President was done by someone associated with their own CIA? Paranoid is the word that comes to mind. It might even be the end of the CIA as we know it?

Voices is a combination of fiction and non-fiction. What I have tried to do, as much as possible, is put events into a storytelling format to try and unravel the lies that were foisted upon us by men like J. Edgar Hoover, whose only goal was to retain his job and keep his new boss, Lyndon Baines Johnson, happy.

Johnson, at the time, was terrified of the whispers going around Washington that he had something to do with the killing of the President. He wanted to put a stop to the rampant speculation, so he gave Hoover a lot of leeway. Both men knew that blaming Oswald was a reach, and that the evidence was created and planted by the authorities at the behest of the FBI, via Hoover. Lies were told, stories about Oswald were created and, of course, there was no one to defend him after Ruby killed him. The fact that Ruby was a former Mafia 'hit man' from Chicago should have influenced them somewhat, but Hoover protected the Mafia his entire career and never thought they even existed, much less did anything that would have brought them into the mix. For Hoover, it was a piece of cake. He knew how to frame a guilty party, and an innocent one who was already dead was no different, at least in his mind. Now that we look back upon it, there was not one shred of evidence against Oswald that would have made it past a jury of honest men (see Mark Lane's 'Rush to Judgment").

It is this writer's opinion that Oswald had in mind a career in the nefarious world of intelligence. Why else would he have hooked up with Guy Bannister and infiltrated the Cuban exiles in New Orleans? He was being directed by someone, and who better than the former FBI Supervisor, who just happened to have close ties to Hoover.

Many professional researcher's believe that Oswald was being 'handled' by more than one government agency and that he did not understand he was being set up to take a fall until after the President was assassinated. Is it possible that Oswald was playing both sides of the street, reporting to the FBI (he was a paid informant) and helping Jack Ruby with the logistics that led to the hit on Kennedy?

But, who was Lee Harvey Oswald? And what is his real story? Why did he allow himself to get into the situation he found himself in eighty minutes after the President was killed. The only thing I am convinced of, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is that the real story had nothing to do with what Hoover and his henchman tried to tell the American people.

This the piece of veracity that "Voices" tries its best to unravel. I know what I think, what I believe, but you must be the final judge and you can only do that by first reading this book.