About the Author

Josiah Thompson investigated numerous high-profile murder cases during his thirty-five-year career specializing in criminal defense, including the Oklahoma City bombing as defense investigator for Timothy McVeigh. Thompson's publications include two books on the Danish existentialist thinker Soren Kierkegaard and a memoir about his jump from professor to detective, Gumshoe. He and his wife Nancy live in northern California.

Reviews

"What Thompson's narrative contributes to the nation and the field is original forensic data, and the most comprehensive, up-to-date study ever published on both the science and the scientists behind the scene of the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy."--M.C. Armstrong in The Brooklyn Rail"An eminently worthwhile addition to the literature that includes some game changing research into one of the Kennedy assassination's key pieces of evidence."--Martin Hay in Kennedysandking.com