Dick Russell is a former staff writer in the Hollywood Bureau of TV Guide Magazine, and a staff reporter for Sports Illustrated in New York. After seventeen years of research and over a hundred interviews he published “The Man Who Knew Too Much” in 1992, followed in 2010 by “On the Trail of the JFK Assassins.” A nationally respected activist, environmentalist, and author of critically acclaimed books, including, with Jesse Ventura, The New York Times bestsellers "63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want You to Read" and "American Conspiracies." Russell has been published in many of the nation's top magazines ranging from Family Health to the Village Voice and has been a guest on numerous national TV and radio programs, including the NBC Nightly News.