They might be the type of people who conduct interviews in the shadows of a hotel somewhere. Voices electronically altered. What they know could have changed the course of American history. Though their lives were touched by the tragedy of November 22, 1963, a great many factors, fear among them, kept them silent.

Until now.

Unlike any other book on the subject, 200 people, from insiders to witnesses to players, have finally stepped out of the shadows to testify freely in The Lone Star Speaks: Untold Texas Stories About the JFK Assassination. This comprehensive, heavily illustrated volume by Sara Peterson and K.W. Zachry takes us deeper into the mystery and down new investigative roads to offer raw and original data that our misled public has never seen. Or heard. Until now.

Sweeping in scope down to the last detail, the book follows Peterson and Zachry into those hotel rooms, into the homes, and into the lives of intimate friends of both Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, friends of Kennedy’s many mistresses, Mafia associates, a Warren Commission member, CIA staff, a Bay of Pigs lieutenant, both Presidents’ “invisible” staffers, doctors, hospital employees, Texas’ assistant Attorney General, and campaign attorneys.

And a parade of police officers, military intelligence, friends of Oswald and Jack Ruby, investigators, journalists, and other people from various places who somehow predicted Kennedy’s assassination or were witnesses to the circus atmosphere before and after. And the dark, silent chorus of secrets.

Revelations populate every chapter of The Lone Star Speaks. The voices included feel they still have something to hide but say the truth is more important.