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2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 A must read for those who do not believe the Warren Commission Report Jun 22, 2008
Ed Woods, who rated this book with one star, is associated with the web site www.noparolepeltier.com which vehemently opposes any parole for Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.
Woods does not like the idea that the author claimes that the FBI is culpable for the murders because the FBI sent two inexperienced agents, possibly still on probation, into harms way in a war zone without being properly armed and without proper back-up. After the two agents were killed the FBI sent several SWAT Teams to the area.
Anyone questioning whether Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin of JFK should read the reviews for Gaeton Fonzi and his book The Last Investigation wherein Fonzi makes a strong case that Oswald did not kill Kennedy.
2 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 No conspiracy proof... Jun 17, 2008
M. Wesley Swearingen has taken a major leap among the JFK assassination conspiracy theorists.
Most focus on one particular group but Swearingen weaves them together; the CIA, Miami and Chicago organized crime, Cubans of all persuasions, Texas oil men, French assassins, and others (with the FBI as the focal point of covering up their existence), all through a web of rumors, conversations with people who are long dead, and alleged informants, to repeatedly validate the claim that Oswald was a patsy, there were professional killers on the grassy knoll, in sewers and on rooftops, and everyone else was covering it up.
Based on information he allegedly received from "Ramon" (an anti-Castro Cuban exile), Swearingen states that "I could see the assassination coming a year before it happened but my superiors did not believe the CIA could carry out such a dastardly deed... (p.67) and "WHAT MORE COULD I DO? I had written memos to the Miscellaneous 62-0 file and had told the `higher ups'" (p.99).
Assuming Swearingen did memorialize on paper such a monumental piece of information that he, in at least October 1962, believed, he offers no proof other than his own statements that he told his superiors and at least a couple of other agents, and that he had written "memos." He titled the memos "Chicago Mob and the CIA Plan to assassinate President Kennedy." (p.70); certainly a significant title.
If Swearingen could produce for the reader one copy of any communication written during that timeframe or corroboration from any other verifiable source, that simple prophylactic act would have added some credibility to the unsupported claims made in To Kill.
Swearingen had other earlier opportunities to tell what he knew before more than four decades had passed, his 1995 book (FBI Secrets), mentions nothing about a JFK conspiracy, or even earlier during the HSCA, when, by his own account, he was no longer in the FBI and had become a whistleblower.
Swearingen mentions several conspiracy books he's read, along with passing references to the major and significant assassination investigations, but characterizes them as "Hoover, the Warren Commission, and the House Select Committee on Assassinations have all taken leave of their senses." (p.203) But throughout he ignores all the science (not available to the Warren Commission or even the HSCA) that has proven beyond any doubt that Oswald was the lone assassin and that he acted alone.
Swearingen makes a significant claim that he was transferred from Chicago to rural Kentucky because "The only logical reason for the transfer to such an isolated area as Paintsville is that the Chicago office and Hoover wanted me to stop reporting that the CIA was organizing a conspiracy within the Chicago mob to assassinate President John F. Kennedy." (p.243)
"Stop reporting" is yet another reference to those "memos" or documents he does not provide to the reader.
What this means is that many more people than just those few he allegedly told (including J. Edgar himself), knew the terrible conspiracy secret. But Swearingen offers nothing to support any of these claims.
To Kill offers nothing to a meaningful debate concerning the JFK assassination.
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