What this book is
The JFK Files: Where They Lead is an independent work of historical non-fiction by Keith Adler. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in cooperation with the National Archives and Records Administration, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, the United States Secret Service, the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, the Mary Ferrell Foundation, the Kennedy family, or any government, agency or estate mentioned in it.
Fact, dispute and theory are marked
Every claim in the book carries a label. Established means the record supports it and serious people on all sides accept it. Disputed means good people read the same evidence and disagree. Theory means somebody has proposed it and the evidence does not carry it. Reconstruction means it is the author's own arithmetic rather than somebody's testimony. Anything not marked established is not asserted as fact.
Statements about people
This book discusses named individuals, most of them long dead, in connection with an event of enormous public interest. Where a person's conduct is described, it is described from the documentary record and cited. Where the author draws an inference, the text says so in the author's own voice and marks it as opinion, disputed or theory. No statement here is intended to assert as fact that any living person committed a crime.
Opinions expressed are the author's own, offered as commentary on a matter of public concern.
The reconstruction
The three-dimensional model of Dealey Plaza referred to in the book and on this site is derived from Commission Exhibit 884, a public record, together with publicly available survey and mapping data. It is an approximation built for testing physical claims. It is not a forensic instrument, it has not been certified by any authority, and the book states plainly where it cannot be relied upon.
No professional advice
Nothing here is legal, investigative or professional advice of any kind.
AI assistance
The text of this book was written by Keith Adler. Software tools, including AI tools, assisted with optical character recognition of released government documents, searching the resulting text, and typesetting. The audiobook on this site is synthesised narration in the author's own voice. All research conclusions, editorial judgements and claims are the author's sole responsibility.
Corrections
If you find an error, the author wants to hear about it. A reference that is never corrected is not being careful, it is being defended. Write to [email protected].