The Sherlock Project

Mr. Schauder was 12 when President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963 in Dallas. He remembers that day, "very very well.: He was in his bedroom in his Queens Village home when his friend came and said that the President had been killed. He told his friend, who had once told him that World War III had started, "you can't fool me again!"

Like many Americans, Mr. Schauder has long been suspicious of the Warren Commission's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin. He was very suspicious of Oswald's trip and move to Russia. Mr. Schauder's suspicions increased when Louisiana District Attorney Jim Garrison raised many questions in his unsuccessful 1969 trial against New Orleans businessman Clay Shaw.

Mr. Schauder, of Middleburgh, New York, retired from the postal service in 2002 and visited Dealey Plaza, the site of the assassination. "I wanted to see the murder scene even though it was 46 years later."

He has read 30 to 40 books on the assassination and has also done research on the Internet.

This volume was serialized in the Catskills newspaper the Mountain Eagle in 2022.