Richard Cross vividly remembers the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. As a Security Officer for the CIA, it had been his assignment two years previously to protect his President, and he clearly understood with his head as well as his heart what a world-shaking event this would turn out to be. Always curious about the many conspiracy theories that began swirling around almost immediately, Cross used the springboard of the Warren Commission's release in 2013 of papers that had been sealed for 50 years to focus his investigative skills on finding the real reason...

This rollicking tale will take you into the lives of a rural Alabama family ... with unexpected twists as the sharecroppers strive to upgrade their living conditions from the rundown shack they all share next to a kudzu-covered wilderness. The three brothers, their parents and grandparents make shrewd and not-so-shrewd decisions in both their business and their personal lives in the pursuit of this goal. The youngest brother marches to a different drummer, and strives earnestly to turn his experiments with the hated, invasive kudzu vine into a medical miracle ... with unexpected results....