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I appreciate you reading this book. I have not read it, but I have read a few others.

It is well documented that Bobby Kennedy was killed by the work of more than one person; specififically more than one shooter. There was at least one more shot fired than the number of rounds that Sirhan Sirhan's gun held. That is in addition to the fact that he had obvious logistical support. The story I heard was that the most likely scenario for the extra shooter was that a security guard fired the final (and fatal) shot into Kennedy as he was on the ground. I saw a Frontline-type TV show exploring the theory and they actually tracked down the guard in question and tried to interview him. Strangely enough, he had a lawyer who directed him not to talk to anyone. The logistical support people were probably some one-time cell that disapeared. The security guard probably just took advantage of the situation and acted on his own.

As for MLK, the facts surrounding James Earl Ray's appearance, disapearance and escape have never been established. Most people don't know he got clean away from the scene and was almost out of the country when he was caught. It seems pretty certain that he was the shooter, but who was behind him and how he got too and from the scene has never been discovered.

I think it is important to read both sides of the issue and be fully informed before making definitive conclusions. To fully evaluate JFK's assasination, I challenge everyone to read a book by I think it's Gerald Posner, called Case Closed. He lays out the case for Oswald to have been the lone assasin. He does an excellent job. I will agree to read Legacy of Secrecy if you agree to read Case Closed.

I also spoke once to Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor of Charles Manson, author of Helter Skelter, and several other true crime books, after he spoke at my school. Bugliosi had just finished researching the issue for a TV docudrama and had come away convinced that Oswald was the lone gunner, and that although he could not disprove the existence of a conspiracy, he could find no evidence that one existed, and he thought he had disproved to his own satisfaction that the existing conspiracy theories were untrue. He had a mock trial of Oswald with Gerry Spence on TV a few years earlier. Eventually he published his research in a book called Reclaiming History: The Assasination of President John F. Kennedy.

It's clearly an important topic that is subject to serious examination and discussion.