Gus Russo

Gus G. Russo (born 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American author and researcher of the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Russo was part of a team of researchers that worked on the 1993 Frontline Lee Harvey Oswald documentary, Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald?, for PBS. He is the author of Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK, a book which states that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the president in retribution for Kennedy's policies toward Fidel Castro and Cuba.

Personal life As of 2013, Russo was a resident of Catonsville, Maryland.

Books Live by the Sword: The Secret War Against Castro and the Death of JFK (1998) The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America (2003) Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run, as told by Henry Hill (2004) Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers (2006) Brothers In Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros, and the Politics of Murder, with Stephen Molton (2008) Boomer Days (2011)