"It Did Not Start With JFK" Author Walter Herbst on the Sunbury Press Books Show

Hundreds, if not thousands of books, films, investigations and documents have tried to shed light into not only who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, but why. The truth lies in ground laid in decades past, and is examined through Walter Herbst's two-volume series, "It Did Not Start With JFK."

Lawrence Knorr interviews Herbst on the Sunbury Press Books Show, and we learn about his four-decade investigation into the Kennedy assassination. The history involves elements of the American military-industrial complex and intelligence communities' involvement with assassinations and overthrow of governments. Fears of communism and racial desegregation stoked a radical right that was determined to preserve the American way of life as it saw it, and violence was not off the table.

Herbst looks into the roles of characters known and unknown: Lee Harvey Oswald's connections to the group, Jack Ruby's deep involvement with organized crime and why he got the job to kill Oswald, and how figures from adventures in the past and future all had a hand in Kennedy's assassination.

Walter Herbst is a retired engineer and entrepreneur, who debuts with the two-volume collection, "It Did Not Start With JFK," on Sunbury Press Books. He lives in Mahwah, New Jersey.