Uncovering the Lincoln assassination cabal

NEW YORK - April 6, 2015 - PRLog -- There's a good reason why Steven Hager is known in some circles as the Oracle of West End Avenue.

In 1967, at age 16, he founded an alternative newspaper titled The Tin Whistle which quickly grew to become the largest underground newspaper in Central Illinois, putting him at the forefront of the sixties revolution during its peak.

In 1979, after receiving a masters in science degree in journalism, Hager moved to West End Avenue in New York City and began documenting the emergence of hip hop, as well as hip hop's influence on the downtown art scene. After writing two landmark books for St. Martins' Press, he became editor of High Times and took the magazine to its highest circulation, while publishing many groundbreaking investigations.

"When I went to work for High Times in 1988, everyone in the industry told me I was committing career suicide," he recalls. "It was right after Len Bias had died and the magazine had a long history promoting cocaine. But I knew if I got rid of the coke and concentrated on cannabis everything would turn out fine."

No one used to term "cannabis" then, as everyone called it "marijuana," "dope," or "grass." But Hager changed that when he created the Cannabis Cup, the first serious attempt to introduce the scientific term for the plant to the mainstream. The event quickly became more famous (and more profitable) than the magazine, while, at the same time, Hager began promoting 420 as a magic number for the cannabis community, playing a key role launching 420 as a global phenomenon.

In 1991, during the 25th anniversary of JFK's assassination, Hager wrote a cover story linking the CIA and organized crime to JFK's murder. Judge Jim Garrison called it "the best article ever written on the assassination." In 2014, Hager updated this now-classic text and expanded it into a book titled Dirty Money, Secret Societies & Killing JFK.

So how do you follow-up a string of successes on this magnitude?

By solving the Lincoln assassination in time for the 150th anniversary of the event.

"This is one of the most investigated murders in history," says Hager, "and almost all the primary documents are free online. It is an investigator's dream, and many crucial facts have only recently come to light. My book forges a trail many others will soon follow."

Hager is available for interviews, and digital review copies are available on request to qualified media representatives.