See what many Kennedy researchers and newspapers have had to say about Gus Russo and Live By The Sword

ANTHONY SUMMERS, best-selling author of Goddess and Official and Confidential, says, "Gus Russo is not one of those so-called journalists who think stories come ready-made off the wires...He's a talented investigator.

Best-selling author of Case Closed, GERALD POSNER, says, "Gus Russo is an indefatigable and resourceful investigator."

Pulitzer-Prize winning writer SEYMOUR HERSH has said, "Gus Russo is as skilled at researching the facts as anyone I know--brilliant."

When producing his 1993 special, "Who Shot JFK?", DAN RATHER chose Russo alone to represent the critics of the Warren Report, calling him "among the most knowledgeable and respected" of the critics.

Peabody-Award-winning executive producer of Frontline, MICHAEL SULLIVAN, wrote to Russo, who was a reporter on the landmark documentary "Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?": "Congratulations on your sterling work...You were the calm center of a pretty crazy storm. Perhaps more than any of us, I believe you were the most honestly curious about what really happened [to JFK]."

DAILY VARIETY called Russo's work on Frontline's Oswald documentary "inestimable."

The ATLANTA CONSTITUTION called Russos' contribution to Frontline "impeccable"--"painstakingly researched and reported," said THE SAN DIEGO TRIBUNE. "[The show was] meticulously researched," said THE HOUSTON POST.

What people are saying about Gus Russo's
LIVE BY THE SWORD: THE SECRET WAR AGAINST CASTRO AND THE DEATH OF JFK

"Compelling, exhaustively researched and even-handed What is most impressive about 'Live by the Sword' is that Russo is able to explain (though not condone) the actions of many of those in Government, including Lyndon B. Johnson, the C.I.A. and Robert Kennedy, all of whom fought hard to keep what Russo calls 'the secret war against Castro' from the public - thereby averting possible American retaliation and, perhaps, another catstrophic world war."
-- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (May 23, 1999)

"Gus Russo has turned twenty years of meticulous research into a thought-provoking book on the assassination of JFK. Filled with new pieces of evidence and new-found witnesses, Russo's Live By The Sword unequivocally places the guilt on Lee Harvey Oswald. He convincingly demonstrates that the coverup that followed the assassination was prompted in part by the fear of top government officials, including Bobby Kennedy, that Castro, or the climate fostered by his regime, might have played a role in the murder and that the United States' own plots to kill Castro would be exposed. This coverup mounts to a damning indictment of the investigation conducted by both the CIA and the FBI. Live By The Sword throws a bright spotlight on the politics that swirled around the murder of John Kennedy."
--GERALD POSNER, best-selling author of Case Closed and of Killing The Dream

"This revealing book demonstrates that no other journalist knows more about Robert Kennedy's involvement with anti-Castro Cuban exile forces than Gus Russo."
--SEYMOUR M. HERSH, Pulitzer-prize winning author
(The Dark Side Of Camelot) and investigative reporter

"Highly recommended for most libraries."
--LIBRARY JOURNAL

"Compelling, exhaustively researched and even-handed What is most impressive about 'Live by the Sword' is that Russo is able to explain (though not condone) the actions of many of those in Government, including Lyndon B. Johnson, the C.I.A. and Robert Kennedy, all of whom fought hard to keep what Russo calls 'the secret war against Castro' from the public - thereby averting possible American retaliation and, perhaps, another catstrophic world war."
-- NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW (May 23, 1999)

"Gus Russo has turned twenty years of meticulous research into a thought-provoking book
on the assassination of JFK. Filled with new pieces of evidence and new-found witnesses,
Russo's Live by the Sword unequivocally places the guilt on Lee Harvey Oswald. He
convincingly demonstrates that the coverup that followed the assassination was prompted in part by the fear of top government officials, including Bobby Kennedy, that Castro, or the climate fostered by his regime, might have played a role in the murder and that the United States' own plots to kill Castro would be exposed. This coverup mounts to a damning indictment of the investigation conducted by both the CIA and the FBI. Live by the Sword throws a bright spotlight on the politics that swirled around the murder of John Kennedy."
--- GERALD POSNER, best-selling author of Case Closed and Killing The Dream

"Remarkably cool, rational...wonderful, intelligent, persuasive, and complete ... It may be the last book you'll need to read on the assassination."
-- CHRISTOPHER LYDON, host, of "The Connection with Christopher Lydon,"
WBUR-FM and a nationally syndicated Public Radio International program.

"This revealing book demonstrates that no other journalist knows more about Robert Kennedy's involvement with anti-Castro Cuban exile forces than Gus Russo."
-- SEYMOUR M. HERSH, Pulitzer-prize winner,
author of The Dark Side of Camelot, and long-respected investigative reporter

"Probably the last book on the Kennedy Assasination you will need to read....Gripping and convincing!
- KIRKUS REVIEWS

"A tour de force. Electrifying. Live by the Sword definitively resolves the debate that's raged since the Senate and House Committee reports of the 1970s. There can be no further question - Robert Kennedy personally and singularly pushed so hard to kill Fidel Castro that it literally blew up in his brother's face. Gus Russo's unique perspective explains virtually every significant discrepancy in the JFK case that has arisen over the past 35 years. Live by the Sword finally lifts the veil of secrecy off this cockeyed, cockamamie case. It turns all the "conventional" wisdom on its head."
-- SCOTT MALONE, Emmy-award winning reporter for PBS' Frontline

"Highly recommended for most libraries."-- LIBRARY JOURNAL

"Live By the Sword is a tour de force of investigative journalism. Gus Russo has found all kinds of new sources and has written a startling, revisionist history. Whether one agrees with Gus Russo or not, the book simply has to be read."
-- LAURENCE LEAMER, author of The Kennedy Women

"Quite a topic. Quite a book. Quite an amazing book!"
-- CHRIS MATTHEWS, host of "Hardball," CNBC

"Russo knows his subject and its nuances like few others His relentless yet unprejudiced pursuit of the facts has impressed colleagues such as Dan Rather, who calls him 'among the most knowledgeable and respected critics' of the Warren Report Live by the Sword is one of the best accounts of the killing of JFK ever written, astonishing in what it claims, responsible in what it disproves A stunning document, the definitive chronicle of a critical episode in American history."
- HISTORY BOOK CLUB AND BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB

"Because of the publication of this book, which brings together the research and the studious co-relation of thousands of bits of evidence, it's no longer necessary, it seems to me, to do additional scholarship on the Kennedy assassination. Truly remarkable truly impressive. I'm greatly impressed."
-- STEVE ALLEN, author, composer, comedian extraordinaire, TV pioneer, and
all-around intellectual

"The reason most people have not accepted the conclusions of the Warren Report is its failure to ascribe a motive to Oswald. Live By the Sword finally discloses the most likely motivation for Oswald as well as the reason that motive had to be kept secret."
-- JAMES P. HOSTY, retired FBI agent who handled the Oswald file in Dallas

"A magnificent work-absolutely brilliant." -- GEOFFREY FIEGER, CBS-Radio

"I congratulate Mr. Russo on an exceptional book."
-- BOB GRANT, "The Bob Grant Show," WOR-AM

"[Russo makes] a very convincing case that JFK made his decisions in an emotional way, a la Clinton. For me, the most interesting thing in [Live By the Sword] is that Oswald wasn't a conspiratorialist, but was obsessed with the poor way Kennedy was treating Cuba...Sword is a very, very good book if you want to learn about Lee Harvey Oswald. [Russo makes] a very compelling case that he could have pulled the assassination off by himself."
-- BILL O'REILLY, "The O'Reilly Factor," FoxNews

"Russo seems to have let the evidence lead [him] to defensible conclusions, rather than manipulating evidence to support predetermined conclusions. Oswald's motivation...[and] the government's coverup mentality...are more convincing than ever ...Persuasive ...Recommended for any reader."
-- STEVE WEINBERG, Baltimore Sun and LA Times Syndicate

"Russo's book takes an unflinching look at what official accounts...dared not address, and what most conspiracy theorists are still too daft to consider: John and Robert Kennedy's dangerous and illegal adventurism in Cuba...Sword [is] compelling even for readers unversed in Kennedy-assassination theory."
-- TERENCE O'HARA, Baltimore City Paper Review

"Live by the Sword chronicles a 35-year effort by the U.S. government and private individuals to hide the true circumstances and implications of JFK's assassination. Clearly documenting that Lee Harvey Oswald was indeed the lone gunman, author Gus Russo details why Oswald committed the crime. As Russo describes it, Live by the Sword is not a who-dunit, it's a why-dunit. The result of immense research (Russo surveyed four million pages of government documents declassified in the last several years) including more than a thousand interviews and the successful filing of numerous FOIA requests, Live by the Sword is enhanced with dozens of never-before-published photographs. Live by the Sword is essential reading for all Kennedy assassination scholars and interested readers in one of the true modern tragedies of American political life - a presidential assassination."
- THE MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW