Hersh avoids the assassination, but persuasively shows the two brothers
and father as dangerous, corrupt, dishonest, vindictive, and megalomaniacal,
with JFK also recklessly dependent on illicit sex and drugs. What all this
means today is unexplored by Hersh. It still seems likely that the Mafia,
which was clearly double-crossed by the Kennedys, had revenge as the best
motive. But Castro and the USSR could have conscientiously acted out of
self-defense; the threat to them was objectively that serious. Whoever did
it, at least it's easier now to understand the success of the cover-up. To
put it bluntly, those insiders who might otherwise have exposed a cover-up,
were also in a position to know that JFK was a bigger threat to America
than his killers could ever be. They may have simply decided to let it go.
ISBN 0-316-35955-6
Extract the names from this source