 |
I was born on a farm at home in Plainfield, Indiana with the local doctor in attendance and was the youngest of five children. I graduated from High School at age 17 and entered the United States Air Force. I graduated from the Air Force School of Aviation Medicine, and rose rapidly in rank. My specialty was Aviation Physiology, and I taught pilot survival at high altitude, both in the classroom and in the altitude chamber. After the Air Force I answered an ad in the paper for a job as a new car salesman because it also provided a new car. Upon being hired, the sales manager tried to teach me ways of selling that went against my upbringing. I walked out of his office and started just being myself with customers, straightforward and honest. I was soon often leading the board in new car sales and a few years later I was recognized in Time Magazine as one of the nation's top salesmen. I then became a Sales Manager, General Sales Manager, and finally a General Manager. It was just an accident that I was in Dealey Plaza at 12:30 PM. on November 22, 1963. That I was slightly injured by a missed shot was inconsequential, but the subsequent attempt by the F.B.I. to cover up that one shot did miss, and hit the curb near my feet, is important in understanding the problems the Warren Commission was to face in their investigation. The fact that I was there at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy did cause me to write down what I had witnessed that evening and held my interest through the years. Most people who are knowledgeable of the facts of the assassination credit Harold Weisberg, who died in 2002, as being the person most knowledgeable of the facts of the assassination. Harold Weisberg and I became friends about two years after the Warren Commission findings were published. He has been a guest in my home in Dallas, and I have been a guest in his home in Frederick, Maryland. It was Harold Weisberg who sued the United States government under the Freedom of Information Act to get the Kennedy and King assassination documents released from the F.B.I. When Harold asked me to join him in that lawsuit, I did. Besides being an eyewitness to the assassination of President Kennedy, I have done extensive research on the assassination. As well as visiting the National Archives in Washington D.C., I have spent many hours in Harold's basement doing research, where he kept over 60, four-drawer filing cabinets full of these F.B.I. documents. Through the years in my spare time, I have amassed several cubic feet of information. The information I have in this book is the best information available and backed up by F.B.I. reports, government correspondence, and other documentation. I have sat silently for many years seeing over 2,000 books written about the assassination of JFK, most with good intentions but lacking in facts.
James T. Tague |
 James Tague in Dealey Plaza (circled) |