Not in Your Lifetime Quotes

“O’Donnell later told a friend, House Speaker Tip O’Neill, that he had been pressured by the FBI not to say what he firmly believed, that gunfire had come from in front of the motorcade.”
― Anthony Summers, Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination

“Far from starting with the premise that the authorities tell the truth, a depressingly large number of people now accept as a given that the government constantly lies. If it does not actively lie, many are persuaded, it conceals the truth.”
― Anthony Summers, Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination

“On November 22, at a further meeting in Paris—with FitzGerald’s knowledge and approval—CIA case officer Nestor Sanchez handed Cubela—the presumed traitor—an alternative assassination device with which to kill Castro, a Paper Mate pen modified to serve as a poison syringe. Just two days earlier, barely twenty-four hours after John F. Kennedy had approved pressing on with peace feelers toward Castro, CIA technicians had worked through the night preparing the weapon. As Sanchez and Cubela ended their meeting, news came through that the President had been shot dead in Dallas.11 Desmond”
― Anthony Summers, Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assassination