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About Live by the Sword
Humiliated at the Bay of Pigs, John and Robert Kennedy sought
desperately to eliminate Castro. Their strategies for overthrowing
the Cuban leader were so elaborate and bizarre, they could only
engender paranoia. Castro openly threatened to retaliate.
Pro-Castro agitator Lee Harvey Oswald learned that Robert
Kennedy was personally supervising groups plotting against
the Cuban leader. Filled with rage and a sense of destiny,
Oswald went to the Cuban embassy in Mexico, announcing he
would kill America's president in exchange for sanctuary in
Havana. Live By the Sword forces the conclusion that members
of the Cuban regime accepted the troubled American's offer.
Russo shows that Oswald was indeed JFK's lone assailant, but
that after the president's murder, a devastated Robert Kennedy
and key officials launched a comprehensive coverup to hide
its true causes.Gus Russo, based in Baltimore, Maryland, has
reported for acclaimed ABC and PBS documentaries on JFK, and
done research for authors Gerald Posner, Seymour Hersh, and
Anthony Summers. Exhaustively researched, Live By the Sword
ends 35 years of public mistrust and confusion over the Kennedy
assassination.
About Gus Russo
 An
acclaimed investigative reporter, Gus Russo was a lead reporter
and researcher on the three-hour landmark 1993 documentary,
"Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?" Most recently, he served
as an investigative reporter and senior consultant to the producer
for ABC's "Dangerous World: The Kennedy Years," hosted
by Peter Jennings. The two-hour program received both critical
and popular acclaim, and was based on Seymour Hersh's The
Dark Side of Camelot, for which Russo was a research consultant.
He has also done research for respected authors Gerald Posner
and Anthony Summers. Russo has appeared on all major TV networks
as a JFK assassination expert, including "CBS Reports with
Dan Rather." He has frequently spoken on NPR as well as
on many college campuses. For over 20 years, Russo has sought
to compile a credible account of President Kennedy's assassination
and the foreign policy errors that set the stage for it. He
is the investigative reporter who has most closely reviewed
the files released by the JFK Assassination Records Review
Board. Now, using first-time, on-the-record interviews with
key players, never-before-seen photographs, U.S. documents
recently declassified by the "JFK Act," and other
material personally obtained through FOIA requests, he has
crafted what will likely become the definitive chronicle of
a critical episode in American history. |
