A Cruel and Shocking Act appears to be a fact based, well supported behind the scenes view of the Warren Commission, offering invaluable insights into how the Commission got it wrong. The faulty conclusuions appear to be the result of information intentionally withheld from the Commission from the highest levels of government including the FBI, CIA and State Department moticated by CYA behavior and perhaps a desire not to bring the world to tthe brink of extinction, had the full truth come out at the time. This book is one of the more fact based, well documentd accounts I ve read over the last 50+ years since being glued to the family television beginning on “that fateful Friday” when I was home from school with the flew, as a 4th grader and watched all the significant events unfold on national tv…..

A particularly insightful and robust accounting of the Warren investigation. This book's perspective of evidence I've read dozens of times before sheds new light on key pieces of the puzzle, for instance, the Zapruder film and it's relation to the "magic bullet theory".