Trail of Death
Alfredo Gomez and the Assassination of President Kennedy
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"Alfredo, I know that my father was caught in a trap just like I know what happened to President Kennedy in 1963. I know the whole story, the whys and the wherefores, who and how, when and where. In short, I know everything there is to know about the murder of our President, and it is the most disturbing, heartbreaking story you'll ever hear."
"How?" Alfredo asked in a fierce whisper that was more like a hiss. "How do you know these things that the entire world has been trying to understand for more than forty years? How is it that you know the answer? Tell me, Senator Longfellow, how do you know?"
The saddest look imaginable came to the senator's face at that moment, a look so remorseful and full of despair that even the fierce Alfredo felt a tinge of sympathy. At last the senator looked up slowly at Alfredo with forlorn eyes, and in a whisper that was soft and silent and tragic, replied, "I know, Alfredo," he said, "because I was there. It occurred right where we are sitting. They made the plans right in this room forty -two years ago, right where we are talking here and now." The senator paused as if he were trying to keep himself together. "I saw all of it," he continued shakily. "I heard all of it. I saw every hand gesture and I heard every word of the debate. I was there on that night, the Fourth of July, 1963, when they all came together and made the terrible decision to assassinate President Kennedy."
Alfredo didn't know what to say, so he decided to remain silent, but the senator wasn't finished. Alfredo watched the senator intently. A strange and terrible power seemed to grip the graying middle-aged man. The shaking in his hand stopped and he sat up straight and tall. "You are here, Alfredo," he said in a voice filled with conviction, "because you wanted to know the truth. Well...you have found it. I AM it! You are looking at it, Alfredo. Because when you look at me, you are seeing the last one. The last connection to the event that shattered the world. You are gazing at the last living witness to the conspiracy to kill President John Fitzgerald Kennedy."
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Alfredo Gomez, the greatest boxing hero ever to come from Mexico, wonders why two of his most promising boxers are not showing up at his gym. It turns out the two young men have given up boxing in order to travel down the Trail of Death, the notorious cocaine trail that leads from northern Mexico into Texas.
Alfredo decides to disguise himself as a poor migrant worker and travel down the Trail himself. But Alfredo gets more than he bargained for. At the end of the Trail, he meets a graying middle-aged alcoholic United States senator, Senator John Henry Longfellow from Texas--the last living witness to the conspirators as they planned the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
About the Author
Joe McLaughlin has done a little bit of everything in his life--from serving as a missionary for an ultra-strict organized religion to training with advanced martial artists in Tae kwon do. In his mid-thirties he turned to Eastern philosophy and meditation to help him overcome health problems. He made a complete recovery and has since joyfully abandoned anything to do with organized religion. In his writing he uses unique ways to explore his newly found metaphysical beliefs.The writing of his most recent novel, Trail of Death, about the assassination of President Kennedy, was an intense, soul-searching and sometimes agonizing journey to uncover what really happened to the President who tried to bring the world together.