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Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences
Startling new insights into the JFK assassination
In Killing Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of US intelligence operations associated with the Cold War and the circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The author asks important questions, including why the assassination still matters today and what the lasting ripple effects have been since that fateful day.
The Kennedy assassination represents one of the most impactful events in not only American but also world history, and this book represents an important addendum to understanding its enduring significance. On November 22, 1963, the duly elected president of the United States was murdered in cold blood, forever destroying “Camelot” and national optimism for world peace.
Gleaning a “people’s history” of the assassination through dozens of insightful and heartfelt interviews, Roth presents a riveting narrative by creating a respectful, well-crafted, and emotionally charged book from which both older and younger generations will gain a greater understanding of our nation’s history and current status in the modern world.
In Killing Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences, author Jack Roth interviews researchers, scholars, eyewitnesses, and family members of those who were part of the tangled web of US intelligence operations associated with the Cold War and the circumstances surrounding the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The author asks important questions, including why the assassination still matters today and what the lasting ripple effects have been since that fateful day.
The Kennedy assassination represents one of the most impactful events in not only American but also world history, and this book represents an important addendum to understanding its enduring significance. On November 22, 1963, the duly elected president of the United States was murdered in cold blood, forever destroying “Camelot” and national optimism for world peace.
Gleaning a “people’s history” of the assassination through dozens of insightful and heartfelt interviews, Roth presents a riveting narrative by creating a respectful, well-crafted, and emotionally charged book from which both older and younger generations will gain a greater understanding of our nation’s history and current status in the modern world.
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Published November 15, 2022
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April 1, 2023
Of all the JFK assassination books- this book provides an entirely new style and dialogue with truth on every page. Most importantly it demands the reader, society and our nation, and the world to not just acknowledge the truth but to seek it with full force. Have honestly been in a reading slump since finishing this book because nothing quite compares.
March 2, 2023
A simplistic Q&A book of JFK researchers and quite a few loons thrown in to make it laughable. I was looking for a new JFK book written in 2022 – something that could inspire and perhaps gleam some new perspectives. To be quite frank the introduction and about half of the interviews will hold your attention and offer minor tidbits. The other half you will need to affix a tin foil hat. This book is filled with interviews from the far left and more than a peck of SF Berkley types. There is no pushback from Roth as he asks almost the same questions to a variety of JFK "conspiracy theorists". (Oh, and you get 50 pages dedicated to that definition and it's origins.) Q's... What would you tell future generations? Have you run into pushback because of your research? Ugh... and it goes on and on. I gave it three stars because it is not the worst of the JFK books I have read over the years. As for advise to future generations of readers...
August 14, 2025
excellent
A great read! Opened my eyes to several things I didn’t know. I still have the opinion that LBJ was the mastermind or at least knew it was happening.
A great read! Opened my eyes to several things I didn’t know. I still have the opinion that LBJ was the mastermind or at least knew it was happening.
January 4, 2023
A good,original overview of conspiracy facts.
Jack Roth interviews a wide range of assassination researchers and creates a compelling picture of the events in Dallas and the legacy of that tragedy for us all.
Jack Roth interviews a wide range of assassination researchers and creates a compelling picture of the events in Dallas and the legacy of that tragedy for us all.
June 8, 2023
Killing Kennedy by Jack Roth
Roth, Jack. Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences (p. 2). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.
I was ten years old when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963.
Like many in my generation, the event left an indelible mark within our memories. In my case, I was in the fifth grade at St. Rita’s Catholic School in West Allis, Wisconsin.
Kennedy was a hero in my Catholic school and within my family since he was the nation’s first Roman Catholic president. His assassination sent shock waves through my school and family as we watched events unfold over the next few days.
My memories as a ten-year-old may be suspect in some regard. Still, I remember adults and fellow kids (probably repeating what they overheard their parents say) talking about the assassination conspiratorially.
Things like Kennedy was killed because he was a Catholic or because Oswald was a communist, so the Russians\Castro did it. Others said Lyndon Johnson was behind it.
The Johnson connection is interesting since some of the people Roth has interviewed have made the same connection. The difference is, at least some people back in 1963 would not have put it past Johnson to be involved in something as horrendous as assassinating a President.
When Jack Ruby killed Oswald two days later by Jack Ruby in the Dallas jail, the conspiracy theories only multiplied, especially since Ruby had Mafia connections. Some adults realized that Castro had shut down the Mafia gambling operations in Cuba, and that provided the motive for a Mafia hit.
Even then, the adults I knew did not seem to accept that Oswald was a lone gunman, must less the mastermind behind the assassination of a very popular president.
As a kid, I quickly moved on from giving it too much thought. Within two years, the nightly news would be about Vietnam and within five years, two more assassinations. One would be Bobby Kennedy, the president’s brother, and the other, Martin Luther King. Then it was back to Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, and the ever-growing casualty list. My draft number would come up in 1971 as I graduated from High School that year.
Over the years, I became familiar with the Warren Commission, the criticism of the Warren Commission, and the Church Commission.
As an adult, the lone gunman theory seemed ridiculous. As someone interested in firearms, I knew that Oswald supposedly did the deed with a World War Two vintage Italian carbine called a Carcano.
Oswald would have had to be the world’s best marksman to pull off three shots in a number of seconds, with a bolt-action carbine supposedly hitting Kennedy and Connelly with a single bullet. Roth’s section on sharpshooters verifies the impossibility of or ant marksman pulling off three shots in six seconds, even without aiming.
Fast forward to 1992, when my family and I visited our friends in Dallas. The trip took us to the depository, where Oswald supposedly did the deed. A congressional committee had stated a probable conspiracy by then, but the statement did not change the government’s official stance.
I had been raised to trust the government, and it was hard for me not to. Why would the government lie? Why would the government cover-up evidence? Why were so many documents withheld, with others so redacted that to be useless? I retained suspicions but wanted to believe the government. That is a typical human behavior. You are more likely to believe something to be true if you want it to be true, even if it contradicts evidence to the contrary.
COVID changed all that, as did Russia\Gate. It’s beyond the scope of the review to detail that, so suffice it to say I believe there is a deep state which did not begin recently.
When Robert Kennedy Jr. announced his bid for the Democratic nomination, it caught my attention. Why would Robert Kennedy Jr. challenge President Biden? After all, was he not a fellow progressive behind the progressive agenda?
Then Robert Kennedy Jr. got censored by all the major media except Fox. Why?
Then Kennedy made a remark that caught my ear. He told an interviewer (I don’t remember who) that he believed a conspiracy was behind his uncle’s death. Whoa!
What did he know, and more importantly, what could be documented and proven? I don’t know. Fox followed up with Jack Roth and his book, Killing Kennedy. It was enough for me to buy the book.
Roth’s approach was to interview whom he could, primarily fellow researchers, into the event and let them speak to their area of expertise or experience. In my opinion, the product is a compelling case for a deep-state plot and cover-up that continues to this day.
The magic bullet is nonsense. The single shooter is nonsense. The Warren Commission is nonsense as each researcher contributes something important that sums up every other book on the Kennedy assassination.
I want to say that parts of the book challenged me because of bias. As a conservative, I had to understand that a deep state isn’t necessarily all left or all right politically. It has more to do with people who consider themselves elite and above the law. They think they know best, and maybe they believe they are patriots. They are not, and they are not accountable. That should frighten any American, left or right.
I cannot see myself voting for Robert Kennedy Jr-the gulf is too wide to bridge. I do respect his honesty and am grateful to him for reigniting my interest in what happened to JFK and our country on that November day in 1963.
I believe that Jack Roth’s book has made the case that Robert Kennedy Jr. could only mention in passing, and if Kennedy somehow won the Democrat nomination, I would not see it as bad.
Roth, Jack. Killing Kennedy: Exposing the Plot, the Cover-Up, and the Consequences (p. 2). Skyhorse. Kindle Edition.
I was ten years old when President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on Friday, November 22, 1963.
Like many in my generation, the event left an indelible mark within our memories. In my case, I was in the fifth grade at St. Rita’s Catholic School in West Allis, Wisconsin.
Kennedy was a hero in my Catholic school and within my family since he was the nation’s first Roman Catholic president. His assassination sent shock waves through my school and family as we watched events unfold over the next few days.
My memories as a ten-year-old may be suspect in some regard. Still, I remember adults and fellow kids (probably repeating what they overheard their parents say) talking about the assassination conspiratorially.
Things like Kennedy was killed because he was a Catholic or because Oswald was a communist, so the Russians\Castro did it. Others said Lyndon Johnson was behind it.
The Johnson connection is interesting since some of the people Roth has interviewed have made the same connection. The difference is, at least some people back in 1963 would not have put it past Johnson to be involved in something as horrendous as assassinating a President.
When Jack Ruby killed Oswald two days later by Jack Ruby in the Dallas jail, the conspiracy theories only multiplied, especially since Ruby had Mafia connections. Some adults realized that Castro had shut down the Mafia gambling operations in Cuba, and that provided the motive for a Mafia hit.
Even then, the adults I knew did not seem to accept that Oswald was a lone gunman, must less the mastermind behind the assassination of a very popular president.
As a kid, I quickly moved on from giving it too much thought. Within two years, the nightly news would be about Vietnam and within five years, two more assassinations. One would be Bobby Kennedy, the president’s brother, and the other, Martin Luther King. Then it was back to Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, and the ever-growing casualty list. My draft number would come up in 1971 as I graduated from High School that year.
Over the years, I became familiar with the Warren Commission, the criticism of the Warren Commission, and the Church Commission.
As an adult, the lone gunman theory seemed ridiculous. As someone interested in firearms, I knew that Oswald supposedly did the deed with a World War Two vintage Italian carbine called a Carcano.
Oswald would have had to be the world’s best marksman to pull off three shots in a number of seconds, with a bolt-action carbine supposedly hitting Kennedy and Connelly with a single bullet. Roth’s section on sharpshooters verifies the impossibility of or ant marksman pulling off three shots in six seconds, even without aiming.
Fast forward to 1992, when my family and I visited our friends in Dallas. The trip took us to the depository, where Oswald supposedly did the deed. A congressional committee had stated a probable conspiracy by then, but the statement did not change the government’s official stance.
I had been raised to trust the government, and it was hard for me not to. Why would the government lie? Why would the government cover-up evidence? Why were so many documents withheld, with others so redacted that to be useless? I retained suspicions but wanted to believe the government. That is a typical human behavior. You are more likely to believe something to be true if you want it to be true, even if it contradicts evidence to the contrary.
COVID changed all that, as did Russia\Gate. It’s beyond the scope of the review to detail that, so suffice it to say I believe there is a deep state which did not begin recently.
When Robert Kennedy Jr. announced his bid for the Democratic nomination, it caught my attention. Why would Robert Kennedy Jr. challenge President Biden? After all, was he not a fellow progressive behind the progressive agenda?
Then Robert Kennedy Jr. got censored by all the major media except Fox. Why?
Then Kennedy made a remark that caught my ear. He told an interviewer (I don’t remember who) that he believed a conspiracy was behind his uncle’s death. Whoa!
What did he know, and more importantly, what could be documented and proven? I don’t know. Fox followed up with Jack Roth and his book, Killing Kennedy. It was enough for me to buy the book.
Roth’s approach was to interview whom he could, primarily fellow researchers, into the event and let them speak to their area of expertise or experience. In my opinion, the product is a compelling case for a deep-state plot and cover-up that continues to this day.
The magic bullet is nonsense. The single shooter is nonsense. The Warren Commission is nonsense as each researcher contributes something important that sums up every other book on the Kennedy assassination.
I want to say that parts of the book challenged me because of bias. As a conservative, I had to understand that a deep state isn’t necessarily all left or all right politically. It has more to do with people who consider themselves elite and above the law. They think they know best, and maybe they believe they are patriots. They are not, and they are not accountable. That should frighten any American, left or right.
I cannot see myself voting for Robert Kennedy Jr-the gulf is too wide to bridge. I do respect his honesty and am grateful to him for reigniting my interest in what happened to JFK and our country on that November day in 1963.
I believe that Jack Roth’s book has made the case that Robert Kennedy Jr. could only mention in passing, and if Kennedy somehow won the Democrat nomination, I would not see it as bad.
February 17, 2025
Verdict - CIA done it
February 13, 2024
I have long been fascinated with the JFK assassination. I have so many questions, and the mystery and what-if's make my head spin. This was a really great read that had so many perspectives and possibilities. The extent, depth, and variety of the conspiracies left me speechless quite often. There were so many bits and pieces that had me wanting to research further and order more books on the subject. The book mentioned that JFK's assassination was one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century. I hadn't thought of it like that before, but it struck me as quite true. As the years go by and more of the information is released, it would be incredible to finally learn the truth. This book had so many people with so many different theories about who and why; I just wanted to keep learning more and more about each and every angle.
This would have been a full five stars, but Part 6 of the book lost me a little as its subjects went down the rabbit hole into the seemingly hokey. It was a struggle reading through these interviews and wade through the philosophical and psychological theories being proposed and explained.
The rest of the book was solid though, and the final thoughts of the author as he tied it all together was a great conclusion.
This would have been a full five stars, but Part 6 of the book lost me a little as its subjects went down the rabbit hole into the seemingly hokey. It was a struggle reading through these interviews and wade through the philosophical and psychological theories being proposed and explained.
The rest of the book was solid though, and the final thoughts of the author as he tied it all together was a great conclusion.
August 5, 2023
I have been reading and been interested in the JFK assassination since the late eighties and have read numerous books on the subject. This one brings us right up to date and speaks to people who have been involved. Its a great read and you might not end up finding out for definite who killed JFK but you will get an idea of who was involved and why. Highly recommended.
December 19, 2022
If you know nothing of the event, this book will give some help. If you have read a few books already, this will add almost nothing. There are far better books. Too much flash and little substance.
June 25, 2023
Interesting perspectives
I really enjoyed the interview format. Well annotated for further research, and provides a wide variety of perspectives that shed light on the politics and events of the time.
I really enjoyed the interview format. Well annotated for further research, and provides a wide variety of perspectives that shed light on the politics and events of the time.
March 23, 2024
Interesting but somewhat slanted
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
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