Ralph Yates picked up a hitch hiker two days before the assassination. While not the real Lee Oswald but apparently one of the look-alikes who was carrying a package that was shaped like a rifle wrapped in brown papers. He said it was curtain rods. He dropped him off near the Texas School Book Depository. His description of the conversation was that the man chatted much more openly than the tight lipped Oswald would have done.

After the assassination, he went to the FBI with story of his encounter. The agents listened carefully and gave him a polygraph, which confirmed Yates was saying what he honestly believed.

Yates was rewarded for his desire to be helpful by being committed to a mental institution where he spent the last eight years of his life. He passed away at the age of 31... never regaining his freedom.

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
by James W. Douglass


Douglass takes readers into the Oval Office during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis, along on the strange journey of Lee Harvey Oswald and his shadowy handlers, and to the winding road in Dallas where an ambush awaited the President’s motorcade. As Douglass convincingly documents, at every step along the way these forces of the Unspeakable were present, moving people like pawns on a chessboard to promote a dangerous and deadly agenda.

JFK and the Unspeakable shot up to the top of the bestseller charts when Oliver Stone first brought it to the world’s attention on Bill Maher’s show. Since then, it has been lauded by Mark Lane (author of Rush to Judgment, who calls it “an exciting work with the drama of a first-rate thriller”), John Perkins (author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, who proclaims it is “arguably the most important book yet written about an American president), and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who calls it “a very well-documented and convincing portrait…I urge all Americans to read this book and come to their own conclusions.”