JFK

Sound Bite

Half a century after John F. Kennedy's assassination, his death remains among the most controversial events in American history. But it is not an isolated event; and it was carefully planned, and even rehearsed. A confidential story imparted by a cousin draws together disparate threads and weaves a coherent explanation.According to the family of Ben Fazzino, the Bay of Pigs connects the roles of Frank Sturgis, E. Howard Hunt, the CIA (namely Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell, Tracy Barnes, and General Cabell), George Herbert Walker Bush, Richard M. Nixon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Mafia, and the FBI. This book shows how.

About the Book

Based on the personal accounts of a decorated Marine hero, JFK: Assassination Rehearsal presents a startling, unified narrative connecting the most traumatic political events of the 1960s and 70s. Author Nick M. Nero builds this story from deathbed conversations with his cousin, Ben Fazzino, a man who led a secret life intertwined with historical figures at the center of national conspiracies. Fazzino’s friendship with CIA operative and Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis placed him in a unique position to witness the hidden machinery behind public tragedies.

The book’s central revelation is the never-before-told story of a dress rehearsal for the assassination of President Kennedy, which it claims took place at the Doral Country Club in Miami weeks before the motorcade in Dallas. This event serves as the entry point into a much larger account that links the failed Bay of Pigs invasion directly to the subsequent murders of JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. The narrative argues that these were not isolated acts by lone gunmen but calculated operations executed by a coalition of interests including disgruntled CIA agents, the Mafia, Texas oilmen, and powerful political figures like Lyndon B. Johnson.

Nero guides the reader through the key players and their alleged roles, examining the activities of E. Howard Hunt, David Ferrie, Jack Ruby, and Lee Harvey Oswald not as random figures but as cogs in a coordinated plot. The book extends its analysis to reinterpret other historical moments, presenting the Chappaquiddick incident as a setup to neutralize Ted Kennedy’s political future and the Watergate break-in as a desperate attempt to retrieve evidence linking the conspirators to the events in Dealey Plaza. Drawing on Fazzino’s insider knowledge, the work assembles a wide-ranging picture of a shadow government operating behind the scenes. It re-examines the official autopsy reports, the Zapruder film, and the pattern of using patsies to construct an alternative history of an era defined by violence and cover-ups.

Introduction

By James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.

The idea of a rehearsal for the assassination of JFK is not far-fetched—Nick Nero's account makes a very plausible case based upon the death-bed confession of his marine-hero cousin, Ben Fazzino, whose own life story weaves together his associations with the CIA, Frank Sturgis, Che Guevara, Meyer Lansky, Santos Trafficante and eventually LBJ with the Bay of Pigs, the deaths of JFK, MLK, and RFK up to the Chappaquiddick event and the Watergate break-in.

There were attempts to assassinate JFK in Miami and in Chicago before they succeeded in Dallas. In Miami, he was flown to his destination by helicopter, circumventing the intended crime scene. In Chicago, a plot was broken up based upon information from a source identified as 'Lee.' And in Dallas, there have even been reports of rifle shots heard in Dealey Plaza the night before the assassination, which have never been confirmed, but which would not be especially surprising—a final 'dress rehearsal' with sound effects.

Waggoner Carr, Attorney General of Texas, launched his own investigation and found that Lee Oswald was an informant for the FBI, that he had informant Number 179 and that he was being paid $200 . . .