In 1964 a Tulane University medical professor, Dr. Mary Sherman, was found dead in her home. She’d been stabbed many times, her body was charred and scorched, as if she’d been in a terrible fire (although there was only superficial fire damage to her bed and home), and she was missing her right arm.
The author previously believed she’d been the victim of an accident involving a linear particle accelerator in a lab, then placed in her home and the scene staged. He later came to believe there was an even more sinister explanation.
Dr. Mary Sherman was a cancer researcher, working with monkeys and mice, and supposedly working on a secret project to develop a vaccine which when injected into Cuban leader, Fidel Castro, would cause him to develop cancer and die. In this lab, she was assisted by Lee Harvey Oswald and David Ferrie, another suspicious character in the Kennedy assassination.
In fact, if you watch the movie, JFK, by Oliver Stone, there’s a scene where the David Ferrie character, played by Joe Pesci, says the reason he’s got all these cages of mice in his apartment is because he’s working on a cancer project. It’s a strange scene, but apparently accurate.
It’s probably worth noting that Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died of lung cancer. Before his death he claimed he’d been “injected with cancer cells.”