Review for “A Warning from History” by Cory Hughes

Was it 3 shots or were there more? Did the fusillade originate from the Texas Schoolbook Depository or the Grassy Knoll in Dealey Plaza? Did the same bullet hit President John F. Kennedy and then inflict numerous wounds on Texas Governor John Connally? Did a surplus Italian rifle with faulty sighting manage to change the course of this country’s history or was the weapon merely a plant? For 60 years, a litany of researchers and scholars have attempted to find answers to the deep-state events that occurred in Dallas on November 22, 1963. The Government was quick to close the case with a whitewashed investigation headed by Earl Warren in 1964. Subsequent investigations attempted merely served as limited hangouts as the CIA infiltrated and influenced the House Select Committee on Assassinations. Despite the impact of the release of Oliver Stone’s JFK in 1991 and the formation of the Assassination Records Review Board to release related files, the events of Dallas are still opaque. 

Cory Hughes has stepped into the breach and utilized his inquisitive skills to shed light on events before, during, and after the assassination. “A Warning from History” is the result of his lengthy research and investigation. The truth needs to be blunt and the truth seekers often need to be even more so. Cory Hughes dispenses with any formalities in the opening pages and takes a sledgehammer to the mainstream narrative along with some commonly posited alternate theories. Hughes takes the book of Lee Harvey Oswald as written by the media lapdogs and the government and pulverizes it as he explains that the identity of the 24-year-old former US Marine was merely a composite. The inconsistencies in Oswald’s whereabouts after his return from the USSR can be laid at the feet of doppelgangers like William Seymour and Kerry Thornley. However, Hughes’ research doesn’t solely rest on a deep dive into the legend building being done against Lee Harvey Oswald. Hughes names other co-conspirators in the plot and gunmen who were situated in and around Dealey Plaza as the presidential motorcade made its turn onto Elm Street and the crossfire commenced. The significance of “A Warning from History” comes from how the Oswald myth is further deconstructed and in naming credible suspects who managed to escape notice for six decades. Hughes’ work may yet be finished, but his entry into the investigatory free-for-all all is noteworthy.