The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories About the JFK Assassination

The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories About the JFK Assassination

The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories About the JFK Assassination

The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories About the JFK Assassination

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Overview

Both authors became interested in President Kennedy's assassination at a young age. Zachry's grandparents lived in Dallas in 1963, and saved newspapers from that era. Her grandfather was connected to the Dallas oil industry. Peterson became interested in the assassination in 1978 when she participated in the Presidential Classroom for Young Americans program in Washington, D. C. The two have collected books and artifacts concerning the assassination for years.

Both are currently employed by Midland College. The Lone Star Speaks began with a presentation the authors made to the West Texas Historical Symposium in 2014. The presentation soon expanded into a four-year research project that resulted in the authors finding and interviewing more than 150 individuals.

Among the most intriguing is Robert T. Davis, who was the Assistant Attorney General in Texas in 1963. As an attorney who was sent to help interview Warren Commission witnesses, Davis immediately sensed that the official investigation was a "whitewash." Davis was one of the first to suggest that the investigation should include Jack Ruby's contacts with Mafia members.

Other witnesses whom the authors located include a Lyndon Johnson staff member who was directed by the new President to serve as his eyes and ears in Dallas after the assassination. She personally reported Oswald's death immediately to President Johnson on November 24, 1963.

Still another previously unknown witness (who even today insists on anonymity) was part of at least two "abort teams" in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Working with a U. S. Marshall in Dallas that day, he attempted to tell the FBI that more than one assassin had been firing at the President. More than a half-century later, he is still bitter that his information was ignored by officials.

Other individuals who have helped the authors add information to the Kennedy assassination puzzle include a personal female friend of President Kennedy, and another woman who spent the late hours of November 21, 1963 with Jack Ruby. The authors also uncovered several individuals who can personally vouch for the fact that there was and is a Dixie/Texas Mafia, and that it may have been involved with the Kennedy assassination.

The Lone Star Speaks provides new insights into the assassination of John F. Kennedy and uses actual witness testimony to raise new questions concerning what many have called "the crime of the twentieth century."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610881920
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Publication date: 10/06/2020
Pages: 448
Sales rank: 1,089,656
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

K. W. Zachry earned a Bachelor of Science in English and Political Science from McMurry College and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Texas at El Paso. Her interest in the Kennedy assassination began when her grandparents, who lived in Dallas on 11/22/63, shared with her all of the local newspapers from the assassination. She has been reading, researching, and "digging for bits and pieces" from people with first-hand information about the events surrounding the president's murder ever since. By combining information and sources with Sara, she discovered that many uninterviewed Texans possessed information about the greatest mystery of the twentieth century. Sara Peterson attended the University of La Verne in California, where she earned a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in Political Science and in History. After being told by her Political Science Department Chair that she could not do her senior thesis on the Kennedy assassination, she went ahead anyway, focusing on those planning, carrying out, and covering up the Kennedy assassination. Among the most powerful, she decided, was Lyndon Baines Johnson, a former Texan senator and then U.S. Vice-President. Since then, she has continued her research on the assassination and why the Warren Report's "evidence" is, in her view, inaccurate, incomplete, and in some cases manufactured. She is currently employed at a college in Texas as the Coordinator of the Developmental Education Language Lab and Writing Center.

Table of Contents

Prologue:

Section I Secrets from the Shadows

Chapter 1 The Kennedy Family

Chapter 2 The Voice of Layte Bowden

Chapter 3 The Voice of Axel Holm

Chapter 4 The Kennedys and the Mafia

Chapter 5 The Warren Commission and the CIA

Chapter 6 The Voice of Lt. J. Goode

Chapter 7 The Voice of Tom Mills

Chapter 8 The Voice of Sharon Calloway

Chapter 9 The Voices of James Jenkins and Dennis David

Chapter 10 Voices of Witnesses Unknown on November 22, 1963

Section II The Shadows of Ambition

Chapter 11 The Voice of Robert T. Davis

Chapter 12 The Voice of George Day

Chapter 13 The Voice of Iris Campbell

Chapter 14 The Voice of Kyle Brown

Chapter 15 The Voices of Tommy Wright and Jan Amos

Section III A Rendezvous with Death

Chapter 16 1960-And So It Begins

Chapter 17 The Voice of Jim Bundren

Chapter 18 Foreshadowing and Assassination

Chapter 19 "Castro Knew"

Chapter 20 The Voice of Michael Marcades

Chapter 21 The Voices of Lt. J. Goode and Tosh Plumlee

Section IV In the Shadows of Dealey Plaza

Chapter 22 The Accused Assassin

Chapter 23 The Voices of Henry J. Roussell, Jr., James A. Botelo, and Bill J. Lord

Chapter 24 The Voice of Pat Hall

Chapter 25 The Voice of Buell Wesley Frazier

Chapter 26 The Voice of Sandra Styles

Chapter 27 The Voice of Marilyn Johnson

Chapter 28 The Voices of Dr. Karl Dockray and James Huddleston

Chapter 29 The Voice of Elsse Goldstrich

Chapter 30 The Voice of Tommy Wright part II

Chapter 31 Voices for Paul Groody

Chapter 32 Voices of Neighbors of Donald Wayne House

Section V Lee and his Shadows

Chapter 33 Shadows of the Doppelgangers

Chapter 34 The Voice of Dorothy Cox

Chapter 35 Shadowing Lee Harvey Oswald

Chapter 36 Theatrics in Oak Cliff

Chapter 37 The "Voice" of Sgt. Robert Vinson

Chapter 38 A Background of Shadows

Section VI Dallas in Blunderland

Chapter 39 The Voice of Jack Hardy

Chapter 40 The Voice of Bill Poston

Chapter 41 The Secret Service and Its Tragedy of Errors

Chapter 42 The Voices of Motorcade Bystanders

Chapter 43 The Voice of Gary Loucks

Chapter 44 The Voice of Dorothy Wean

Chapter 45 The Voice of Barry Walters

Chapter 46 The Voice of Eugene Boone

Chapter 47 Voices from the Sixth Floor

Chapter 48 The Voice of Paul Gower

Chapter 49 The Voice of Danny Peters

Chapter 50 The Voice of Doyle Brunson

Chapter 51 From the Vaults of the FBI

Section VII The Shadowy World of Jack Ruby

Chapter 52 The Voice of "Joy Dale"

Chapter 53 The Multi-Faceted Ruby

Chapter 54 The Voice of Duke Stephenson

Chapter 55 The Voice of J.J. Singsong

Chapter 56 The Voice of Congressman Ralph Hall

Chapter 57 Two Oswalds, One Ruby

Chapter 58 Friends in Shadowy Places

Chapter 59 The Voice of Mel Barney

Section VIII The Dixfle Mafia: Deep in the Heart of Texas

Chapter 60 Voices for George McGann

Chapter 61 The Voice of Texas Ranger Al Mitchell

Chapter 62 George McGann's "Homecoming"

Chapter 63 George McGann's Luck Runs Out

Chapter 64 Organized Crime Pays Its Last Respects to George McGann

Chapter 65 Where was George McGann on November 22, 1963?

Section IX The West Texas Connection

Chapter 66 Voices for Billie Sol Estes

Chapter 67 The "Voice" of Fred Michaelis

Chapter 68 Voices for Jim Bolden

Chapter 69 Voices for Roscoe White

Chapter 70 More Voices for Roscoe White

Epilogue: Shadows of the Past

Afterword

End Notes

Index

Bibliography

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