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Paul Abbott Author Interview

In Death to Justice, you provide readers with an in-depth look at the evidence, investigations, and implications surrounding the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. What first drew you to write a book centered on this case?

It was when I was working on another project that I saw a lot of gaping inconsistencies and irregularities among the statements of witnesses to Lee Harvey Oswald’s shooting.

From there, very clear narratives that have largely been overlooked emerged, compelling me to write this book.

How much research did you undertake for this book, and how much time did it take to put it all together?

It took me 18 months – to compile all witness statements and evidence & write the book.

Did you find anything in your research that surprised you?

Yes, the media personnel that were present to witness the shooting had been completely overlooked – the 50/50 ratio of media personnel to police at the scene is startling.

What do you hope readers take away from Death to Justice?

To provide new insight into an aspect of the subject of President Kennedy’s assassination and make Oswald’s shooting a topic worthy of its own productive research.

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On November 24, 1963, President John F. Kennedy’s alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald was gunned down in the basement of Dallas City Hall at the start of his transfer to the County Jail. It took place in front of dozens of Dallas Police personnel and members of the media. While the shooting was also filmed and broadcast live on television, the uproar from a defenseless man being killed before standing trial for the killings of President Kennedy and Dallas police officer, J.D. Tippit, was muted compared to the shock of the president’s assassination barely forty-eight hours later.


And despite the many works on that historic weekend ever since, very little research has been dedicated to the shocking murder of Lee Oswald. Instead, it has stood presumed as one of the more open-and-shut aspects of the horror of that weekend in 1963.


But as this book will prove – it is anything but.


DEATH TO JUSTICE is the first book to focus entirely on the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. In doing so, it provides a never-before-seen deep dive into all aspects of the crime that includes:

Exposing the lengths of incompetence and culpability of the Dallas Police Department for Oswald’s slaying, providing the most definitive record of witnesses at the scene, highlighting a list of suspects, alongside Jack Ruby, that were involved in the shooting and its cover-up, and consolidating the evidence to establish a clear and complete scenario of how Oswald’s shooting most likely took place.

Through reasoned and critical analysis of all facets of the event, DEATH TO JUSTICE corrects the narrative and solidifies the case that Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder is worthy of its own field of research. From this point, what more can still be uncovered about the weekend that changed the course of the world?