I was born in Chicago, Illinois and currently reside in Farmington, Minnesota. I began my fascination with JFK (and his assassination) in the fourth grade during library time. Most of my classmates were picking out books about childhood adventures, but I gravitated to the history section, where I found a large coffee table book about JFK's assassination (with full-page color photos!). I was absolutely floored that an American president could be so violently killed in "modern times."

I am now a systems engineer with a 20-year career working for large companies, so I'm well aware of the power that large, profitable industries wield when shaping government policy. I'm also acutely aware of the common perception that large organizations cannot pull off complex conspiracies because of their structural incompetency. My explanation is simple: every organization in the world benefits from (or is damaged by) the actions of a small, active minority within it (e.g., Enron). Small, competent teams within any institution can easily pull off competent acts -- it's what they do!

My interest in researching hidden history goes beyond discovering what "really happened" however. Such a passion could easily take several lifetimes to complete. No, my current interest is in creating plausible narratives for problematic events such as 9/11 or the JFK assassination. Institutions that create the "official story" for such events have a great advantage in shaping public opinion, simply because they went through the effort -- much like a playwright -- of creating a good story with "bad guys," "good guys," a moral, and a happy ending.

Amateur researchers need to recognize this and invest more time in creating narratives that work. They then need to use their formidable research talents to hone these alternative stories rather than continue to pick apart ones that we all already know are fake.

This has also been experience of large and small organizations. The definition of a “conspiracy” is “a joining or acting together”. Virtually every day organizations do this in order to hide the truth. The problem is that when governments and intelligence agencies decide to conspire together, it is virtually impossible for the truth to come out as they can always hide behind the phrase “national security”. Normally they conspire to cover-up incompetence, but in the case of the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK, it is about covering-up of illegal behaviour.