I had the opportunity to talk with Larry Hancock about his new book Someone Would Have Talked. Even though the events of November 22 1963 are hardly fresh, many people are still waiting for a plausible explanation of the death of John F Kennedy. Larry offers a new and different perspective; rather than dealing with the physics of the assassination, he looks at the people.
Let me first say that I greatly enjoyed your book, and thank you for taking time out to talk to me. How and when did you first start to get interested in the Kennedy assassination?
Probably like everyone who watched Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald live on TV, I had a certain skepticism about how the events could have occurred. At the time I paid no attention to the Warren Commission. (I was too young.) The Garrison investigation happened while I was in college, and I do recall wondering what events in New Orleans could possibly have to do with the Dallas assassinations. My real interest started in the early 90s when I bought Jim Marrs' book. Jim pointed out so much information that had been neglected or altered that I began to become very interested.
A year or so later while on a business trip to Dallas I saw the filming of the JFK movie. That got me hooked on the subject and I have studied it pretty obsessively ever since. Along the way I have got to know Jim Marrs, and I have repeatedly mentioned to him that his book has taken years out of my life!
I seem to recall reading that you are involved with a computer company. You must have had some very long days working and researching. Your book is accompanied with a pretty comprehensive web site, do you see this as the future for factual books, a marriage between traditional media and new?
I graduated from college in 1970. My working career started with a four-year enlistment with the Air Force specializing in computerized telecommunication equipment. That led to a 20-year involvement the telecoms industry, mainly in the technical training aspects.
I had a great deal of involvement with advertising and marketing, and for the last 12 years prior to retirement at the end of 2006 I was involved with the marketing and advertising of personal computers and communication equipment.
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